HQH News and Press, Tekla Healthcare Investors From 01/01/20

A good run The portfolio was up 6.06% in Q4 and 26.79% for 2019. The four-year gain has been 62.40%. We've had several good runs since I began investing in 1982. At some point, we'll have a bear market. Don't get complacent. During 2019, we began taking monthly distributions from my IRA. I...

Author's note : This article was released to CEF/ETF Income Laboratory members on December 3, 2019. The Weekly Closed-End Fund Roundup will be put out at the start of each week to summarize recent price movements in closed-end fund ((CEF)) sectors in the last week, as well as to highlig...

Author's note : This article was originally released to CEF/ETF Income Laboratory members on November 25, 2019. The Weekly Closed-End Fund Roundup will be put out at the start of each week to summarize recent price movements in closed-end fund [CEF] sectors in the last week, as well as to...

Picture Source: REUTERS/Brendan McDermid. A screen displays the Dow Jones Industrial Average shortly after the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange, November 18, 2019. For the first month in seven, domestic taxable bond CEFs jumped to the top of the leaderboard, posting a 0.44% retu...

The Tekla Healthcare Opportunities Fund ( THQ ) has been one of my go-to funds for exposure to the healthcare sector. This actively managed fund has been able to give an investor exposure to some of the largest and bluest names the healthcare sector has to offer. All this, while providing an a...

If you're looking to "go with the flow," you may want to take a closer look at the healthcare sector. After being a steadily outperforming sector for many years, healthcare began lagging other sectors in Q4 '18 and for much of 2019. But since October 2019, healthcare has turned around dram...

This article was originally published on October 29, 2019. Most closed-end fund investors know that distribution cuts come with the nature of the closed-end fund's structure. The fact is that when a fund is paying out 90% of their NII and 98% of their realized capital gains on an annual ba...

For retirees or near retirees (people aged over 55 but not retired yet), one of the major challenges is finding a sustainable income stream. Only 15 years ago, you could earn 5%-6% safe and guaranteed income from instruments like bank CDs with literally no risk. But that era is over and probab...

This article was first published on October 20, 2019. Tekla Healthcare Investors ( HQH ) has been lagging the broader market, along with the rest of the healthcare sector as a whole. The continued rhetoric from presidential hopefuls and even the current White House administration has reall...

Note: This article was released to members on October 19, 2019. Chemist's Closed-End Fund Report Quantitative screens help to rapidly narrow down attractive candidates from the database of 500-plus closed-end funds [CEFs] for further due diligence and investigation. Previous editions of ...