HQH News and Press, Tekla Healthcare Investors From 02/07/19

Many market participants that were losing sleep over the dismal performance that we saw during the fourth quarter of the year were no doubt pleased by the recovery that took place in January. There are some signs, however, that this rally may be about to come to an end as the earnings growth o...

Megatrends Podcast Series Globalization has made the world we live in very small, and very connected. Market trends are global, companies are innovating faster than ever, and money managers are paying very close attention. In each episode, author and hedge-fund specialist Maneet A...

Stock market volatility made a big comeback in 2018, especially when compared to the previous year. Most market participants had become complacent during the last few years. The SPDR S&P 500 Index ETF ( SPY ), which represents the S&P 500 Index, declined -19.8% from its peak achieved ...

We generally advocate a 3 or 4 bucket diversified portfolio. This "8% Income Portfolio" represents only one of the buckets in our overall investment strategy. This portfolio takes most of the risk while providing most of the income in our otherwise conservative strategy. Also, this is one of t...

Fears of a recession are overdone and corporate earnings growth should only see a slowdown this year, according to Citigroup, which is advising investors to buy the dip in equities. More news on: Commun Svc SS Shs, Vanguard Communication Services ETF, iShares Global Telecom ETF, News on ...

Christmas may have arrived early for closed-end fund ("CEF") investors as discounts are blowing out across the board as investors irrationally and indiscriminately sell all of their investments. While there's the saying " Stocks take the escalator up but the elevator down, " there's also the...

With Democrats on the verge of taking control of the House of Representatives, party leaders are weighing whether the party should push votes on Medicare for All or focus on more modest health-care initiatives, the Wall Street Journal reports. More news on: UnitedHealth Group Inc., Cig...

Co-produced with PendragonY for High Dividend Opportunities Defensive Nature of Healthcare and Biotech Stocks The healthcare and biotech sectors should play a role in every balanced portfolio, not only because they provide diversity, but also because of their fast growth, which is ge...

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...

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...