HQH News and Press, Tekla Healthcare Investors From 12/15/18

For retirees, one of the major challenges of the last several years has been finding a sustainable income stream. Even though the rates on Bank CDs (Fix-Deposits) have been improving, but they are still far too low to provide a good stream of income. In fact, at current rates, they barely prot...

Johnson & Johnson is being stung by reports it knew for years about contaminants in its baby powder. That's helping the Healthcare SPDR (NYSEARCA: XLV ) to a  3% decline  vs the S&P 500's  1.2% fall . More news on: Health Care Select Sect SPDR ETF, Vanguard Health ...

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 highlight recently concluded or upcoming corporate actions on CEFs, such as tender offers. Most of the information...

The Health Care sector has been on an impressive run this year. While not immune from the downturn this Fall, it has recovered nicely with exceptional relative strength. We update sector relative strength charts each week in our Sector Snapshot (subscription required) report to compare the p...

Stock market rotation has been a pretty big theme this year but you wouldn't necessarily know it from our sector performance heatmap. Below we show which sectors have the best and worst performances YTD over the course of the year. Three have been outperformers for most of the year: Consumer D...

On October 31, 2018, Tekla Healthcare Opportunities Fund paid a monthly distribution of $0.1125 per share. It is currently estimated that this distribution is derived from net realized short-term capital gains, net realized long-term capital gains and return of capital or other capital sourc...

On October 31, 2018, Tekla World Healthcare Fund paid a monthly distribution of $0.1167 per share. It is currently estimated that this distribution is derived from return of capital or other capital source. The composition of this and subsequent distributions may vary from month to month bec...

Speaking at the Department of Health & Human Services, the president says both consumers and the government can save money if drugs were priced along the lines of that of other countries (i.e., Canada). More news on: iShares Nasdaq Biotechnology ETF, Health Care Select Sect SPDR ETF,...

It seems that last week was not the end of the market volatility that has likely caused all long-only investors reading this to see the value of their portfolios decline. As of the time that I am writing this, the S&P 500 index ( SPY ) has lost 1.22% during this week alone. This market wea...

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