HYB News and Press, New America High Income Fund Inc. From 09/19/21

August was quite the busy month for my closed-end fund portfolio, though 4 of the additions came about as swaps for better valued funds. DLY was a recent fund I covered, and is one that I swapped out from PKO, but I also added additional capital. I sold out two funds in August but...

HYB has a solid track record of long-term performance in the high yield closed-end fund space. This is a fund that has been around for a while as well, they launched back in 1988. The fund's latest report shows strong distribution coverage of over 100%, after having strong coverag...

Only funds with coverage >100% are considered. Top lists of discount, yield, DxY and DxYxZ are given. Only one fund with >100% coverage had a negative z-score this month. FPL could be worth a look. For further details see: The Quality Closed-End Fund Report, Au...

Risk-adjusted performance continued to rise in August for the Global Market Index. Sharpe ratios in global markets generally are elevated. GMI represents a theoretical benchmark for the “optimal” portfolio. For further details see: Major Asset Classes | Aug...

The expected risk premium for the Global Market (GMI) ticked up in August, reaching an annualized 6.1%, slightly above the previous month’s estimate. Despite the comparatively high GMI forecast, the current estimate remains well below the index’s realized risk premium fo...

The winning streak for American shares rolled on in August. US stocks rose for a seventh straight month and posted the strongest gain for the major asset classes. US bonds also lost ground in August. The Bloomberg Aggregate Bond Index slipped 0.2%, the first monthly decline for the be...

I promised readers of my book, "The Income Factory: An Investor's Guide to Consistent Lifetime Returns," that I would periodically review and update the model portfolios here on Seeking Alpha. Obviously a lot has happened (COVID, the energy crash and recovery, etc.) since the McGraw-H...

GMI’s 10-year Sharpe ratio (SR) edged up for a fifth straight month to 0.86, the highest since January 2020, based on a rolling ten-year window via monthly data. Profiling GMI through a drawdown lens also reflects an extended stretch of low risk. GMI is useful as a baseline...

The projected risk premium for the Global Market held steady in July at an annualized 6.0%, unchanged from the previous month. Despite the recent bounce, GMI’s trailing 10-year performance remains well below the previous 8%-plus peak. No one really knows what risk premia wi...

Most of the major asset classes continued to rise in July, led by US real estate investment trusts (REITs). US equities continued trending higher. The bull run also persisted for the Global Market Index (GMI) in July. For further details see: Major Asset Classes: July 20...