HYT News and Press, Blackrock Corporate High Yield Fund Inc. From 06/09/21

Over the past year, a surge of investors drove high-yield bond prices back to pre-pandemic levels. The potential for a double-dip should increase insurance companies’ appetite for juicier high-yield offerings. While high yield improved its lot through the pandemic, some inv...

We review CEF market valuation and performance over the past week and highlight recent events. The CEF market continues chugging along, delivering strong returns over the month of May. We highlight individual fund news from the previous week. For further details see: CEF...

Blackrock Corporate High Yield Fund Inc. (NYSE:HYT) traded today at a new 52-week high of $12.18. So far today approximately 183,000 shares have been exchanged, as compared to an average 30-day volume of 356,000 shares. In the past 52 weeks, shares of Blackrock Corporate High Yield Fund ...

Risk-adjusted performance for the Global Market Index (GMI) continued to tick higher in May. GMI’s Sharpe ratio — a measure of risk-adjusted return – rose to 0.82 on a trailing 10-year basis through last month. That’s close to a pandemic high, but still...

The Global Market Index’s (GMI) expected risk premium held steady at 5.9% annualized in May, matching the previous month’s estimate. The framework for estimating equilibrium returns was initially outlined in a 1974 paper by Professor Bill Sharpe. Keep in mind, too, t...

The major asset classes delivered across-the-board gains for a second month in a row in May. Everything apart from cash was up last month, led by a sizzling rally in foreign inflation-linked government bonds. The FTSE Russell World Inflation Index ex-US surged 4.0% last month, the...

HYB is the only CEF that T. Rowe Price offers, though they aren't new to asset management by any means. The fund is showing an attractive valuation relative to its peers in the high-yield CEF space. At first glance, distribution coverage seems to be lacking; however, when factorin...

The classic definition of an optimist was the kid who found horse manure under the Christmas tree and immediately asked, "Wow, where's the pony?" Fortunately for Income Factory investors, the "pony" - in the form of an income stream that grows even faster when market prices drop - is ...

Diversification remains key. Flexible strategies can also take advantage of a more uncertain yield and spread environment. We continue to find reasonable opportunity in both public and private credit markets. We find value in non-agency mortgages and prefer cyclicals to growth sto...

Today's post rolls out the inaugural Risk Review column for the major asset classes, a monthly update that's the companion piece to the monthly performance report and risk-premia estimates. Risk analysis is a broad and deep subject and so this monthly update will be no one's idea of a...