HPI News and Press, John Hancock Preferred Income Fund of Beneficial Interest From 04/18/19

Introduction The preferred stock closed-end funds are currently trading at high Z-scores and relatively tight NAV/Price spreads. Some of the CEFs are statistically overvalued here and might be good " Sell " candidates. However, we should be cautious with the short game because it requires a ...

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...

Co-produced with PendragonY for High Dividend Opportunities. Preparing your Income Portfolio for a Recession We have been writing a series on how to prepare for a recession and about the best way for income investors to position themselves. We believe that the likelihood of having a...

BOSTON , Feb. 15, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- The eight John Hancock Closed-End Funds listed in the table below announced earnings 1 for the three months ended January 31, 2019 . The same data for the comparable three month period ended January 31, 2018 is also available below.  ...

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:      ...

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...

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, ...

BOSTON , Dec. 3, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- The three John Hancock closed-end funds listed below declared their monthly distributions today as follows:   A portion of a Fund's current distribution may include sources other than net investment income, including a return of ca...