HPF News and Press, John Hancock Pfd Income Fund II Pfd Income Fund II From 02/21/19

Introduction Over the last year, most of you have noticed our increased activity in closed-end funds as the inflow of volatility finally shook them up and created various arbitrage and directional opportunities for active traders such as us. Now that these products have our attention, we are...

BOSTON , Feb. 7, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- The following eight closed-end funds managed by John Hancock Advisers, LLC announced the results of their annual shareholder meetings: John Hancock Financial Opportunities Fund (NYSE: BTO), John Hancock Hedged Equity & Income Fund (NYSE: HEQ)...

BOSTON , Feb. 1, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- The five John Hancock closed-end funds listed below declared their monthly distributions today as follows: Declaration Date:         February 1, 2019 Ex Date:      ...

Over the last few months, most of you have noticed our increased activity in closed-end funds as the inflow of volatility finally shook them up and created various arbitrage and directional opportunities for active traders such as us. Now that these products have our attention, we are continuo...

In our last Weekly , we discussed why we thought the current trading environment of heightened volatility was conducive to opportunistic tactical trading of closed-end funds. In this article we introduce a metric - discount sector spread percentile - that we think is particularly helpful in...

Introduction Over the last few months, most of you have noticed our increased activity in closed-end funds as the inflow of volatility finally shook them up and created various arbitrage and directional opportunities for active traders such as us. Now that these products have our attentio...

This article was first released to members 1 month ago. A database of CEFs was obtained from CEFConnect . All yields are quoted as the yield on price . All z-scores refer to the 1-year z-score , which I consider to be the most useful time duration for profiting from premium/discou...

Introduction Over the last few months, most of you have noticed our increased activity in closed-end funds as the inflow of volatility finally shook them up and created various arbitrage and directional opportunities for active traders such as us. Now that these products have our attention, ...

Introduction Over the last few months, most of you have noticed our increased activity in closed-end funds as the inflow of volatility finally shook them up and created various arbitrage and directional opportunities for active traders such as us. Now that these products have our attention, ...

Author's note: All data is as of November 2, 2018, so numbers may be out of date. Please check latest data before making investment decisions. Quantitative screens help to rapidly narrow down attractive candidates from the database of 500-plus closed-end funds ((CEFs)) for further ...