HTD News and Press, John Hancock Tax Advantaged Dividend Income Fund of Beneficial Interest From 09/07/22

Summary HTD provides relative stability with its utility and preferred exposure providing stable cash flow. The fund's NII has increased with the latest report, making a stable distribution even safer. The fund's valuation continues to be volatile on a discount/premium basis. ...

Summary Since 1988, FT has provided investors with a steady monthly distribution while minimizing risk to capital losses. The fund's annual yield is currently 6.5% and has provided an 8% total return at market price since inception. The fund's discount is narrowing but investo...

Summary August was a month of significant changes in the structure of my overall portfolio, which now contains 22 securities. Thanks to the gain from the last securities that I purchased in the spring, I was able to close all previous positions that had been showing a continuous l...

Summary GOF yields 12.59% and pays monthly. It has outperformed the bond market and the S&P by a big margin in 2022. We compare GOF to other high-yield outperforming monthly payers. Need some high-yield outperformers in your portfolio? The Guggenheim Strategic Opport...

19 out of 23 CEF sectors positive on price and 17 out of 23 sectors positive on NAV last week. SMM will pay a "Saba special distribution", funded by management. ZTR rights offering is now live. Author’s note: This article was released to CEF/ETF Income Laborator...

CEF Focus Investing means selecting quality funds to have a steady stream of sustainable income over time. However, if we feel the imperative to stay fully invested in the market as it rises, we won’t have any cash to invest when prices fall. We should be aware that sooner ...

It has been a while since I've provided an update on my top ten CEF positions. This year hasn't been too kind, but hard to complain when the last few years were so strong. Tech has been the biggest challenge for my portfolio, but there is very little working outside of energy. ...

Price is what you pay, value is what you get. In the case of CEFs, price and value rarely coincide. In fact, as we know, CEFs may price at a premium or at a discount to the value of their assets. Why this happens remains a mystery, but one that we have to deal with every time ...

With 2022's market, there seems to be almost no place to hide from the losses. Even energy has now joined in the bear market recently, though it's hard to tell with their hefty gains for the year still. There might not be too many places to escape the bear, but HTD keeps on paying...

I had put a lot of my cash to work in the month of May as equities hit new lows for the year. The S&P 500 briefly joined the Nasdaq in bear territory but swiftly bounced out of the technical bear market of a 20% decline. While I'm lighter on my cash allocation, the cash pile w...