HTD News and Press, John Hancock Tax Advantaged Dividend Income Fund of Beneficial Interest From 10/30/20

Preferred securities can carry features of both equities and fixed-income, while providing a fixed dividend payment. They are traditionally more stable than equities, due to the features that make them a fixed-income investment. We are looking at how CEFs in this space plummeted i...

Our "Hunker Down" portfolio is now about two months old and it's doing what it was designed to do. That is - generating a cash income that we hope is solid enough to continue through "thick and thin," whatever that turns out to be. Income up slightly, as one fund, FLC, increased i...

Almost one year ago, I built an income portfolio based on 15 closed-end funds (CEFs) that I judged to have the best net asset value (NAV) performance since inception. The distributions from almost all of my CEFs have remained intact despite the rivers of ink predicting massive cuts in...

Written by Nick Ackerman, co-produced by Stanford Chemist John Hancock Tax-Advantaged Dividend Income Fund ( HTD ) holds a hybrid blend of utility positions and financials. The financial exposure is primarily through preferred offerings. This makes HTD a rather income-focused play. Thoug...

A Sense of Freedom I love music. From the time I was a child, I always loved music. Although some of my friends played guitar, I never learned to play an instrument. However, I always listened to my audio cassettes when I was a teenager. Even today, I usually spend time in the company of goo...

Written by Nick Ackerman, co-produced by Stanford Chemist Section 19(a) Notices can sometimes confuse or be a bit misleading to investors. This can be especially confusing for newer closed-end fund investors that are just getting started. There are so many terms, to begin within investin...

As we write this, the broader market, as represented by the S&P 500, posted an all-time high once again. In a sense, it marked an end to the shortest bear market in U.S. history. The broader market continues to defy gravity in the face of many challenges that still remain in the real eco...

[This portfolio was introduced to our Inside the Income Factory members on July 20] "Hunker Down" Portfolio Given what we don't know about the future course of the pandemic here in the United States, how it will affect our economy and our financial markets, and what our political fut...

I’ve Got a Dream “On September 20, 1973, the day before the lead single from his fifth album, I Got a Name , was released, Croce, along with five others, was killed in a plane crash at the height of his popularity. Croce's music continued to chart throughout the 1970s follo...

Written by Nick Ackerman, co-produced by Stanford Chemist John Hancock Tax-Advantaged Dividend Income Fund ( HTD ) is a hybrid fund of equities and preferred stocks. More specifically, the equity portion is comprised primarily of utility names, while the preferred portion is chock full o...