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"The clocks stopped at 1:17," reads the most famous line from Cormac McCarthy's post-apocalyptic classic The Road . "A long shear of light and then a series of low concussions." It didn't happen at 1:17, but it was close. At 1:20 a.m. local time on Wednesday, Iran's Revolutionary Guards b...

Fine-Tuning My Thoughts “If you can’t write about it, you haven’t really thought about it. This is why every year Warren [Buffett] sits down and writes a long letter to his shareholders explaining the past year’s events. This exercise has helped him immensely to ...

Note: This article was released to Equity CEFs: Income + Opportunity subscribers on December 27th, 2019: Will 2020 be the year in which the debt bomb finally blows up? Will a socialist Democrat become this nation's next president? Will the Federal Reserve tap on the brakes and not ...

This article was originally published on December 2nd, 2019. Cohen & Steers Closed-End Opportunity Fund ( FOF ) is a pretty popular go-to fund of funds, investing in other CEFs and ETFs. This can be a convenient fund for those that may not want to actively manage their CEF portfolio an...

So, you want to fade the reflation narrative? Or maybe you don't, I have no idea. What I do know is that headed into 2020, many Wall Street year-ahead outlook pieces have coalesced around the view that some 70 rate cuts across the globe are set to manifest themselves in better economic out...

BOSTON , Dec. 20, 2019 /PRNewswire/ - The John Hancock closed-end funds listed below today declared their monthly distributions for January 2020 as follows:   The Funds listed above have accelerated the declaration, ex-date, and record date of the regularly scheduled ...

BOSTON , Dec. 12, 2019 /PRNewswire/ - John Hancock Financial Opportunities Fund (NYSE: BTO), John Hancock Hedged Equity & Income Fund (NYSE: HEQ), John Hancock Income Securities Trust (NYSE: JHS), John Hancock Investors Trust (NYSE: JHI), John Hancock Premium Dividend Fund (NYSE:...

Closed-end-funds, "CEFs," represent an exciting market segment offering investors exposure to actively managed investment portfolios that often times feature more dynamic strategies compared to passive ETFs. While many investors are attracted to the income profile of the various funds with cor...

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...

Introduction Each month, I extract about a thousand mutual funds, exchange traded funds and closed end funds from Mutual Fund Observer, and rank them for Risk (MFO Risk, Ulcer Index, Category Performance During Recessions, Leverage, Debt Quality, Debt/Equity), Risk Adjusted Returns (MFO Rank...