ISD News and Press, PGIM Short Duration High Yield Fund Inc. From 04/03/20

Anthony Okolie recaps the biggest news of the day including the latest COVID-19 developments, followed by a conversation with Greg Kocik, Head of High Yield Bond Group, TD Asset Management, about the potential opportunities in the high yield and corporate bond space. Original Post ...

PGIM High Yield Bond Fund, Inc. (NYSE: ISD) (the “Fund”), a diversified, closed-end management investment company, announced today its unaudited investment results for the quarter ended February 29, 2020. This financial data is unaudited. Amounts do not reflect adjustments f...

By Brian Levitt, Global Market Strategist, North America ; Timothy Horsburgh, CFA, Investment Strategist ; and Talley Léger, Senior Investment Strategist Our Global Market Strategy team is examining a new set of indicators to gauge when a new market cycle may be ready to begin. ...

Is now the time to buy? For the last year or so we have attempted to invest conservatively, focusing on U.S. Treasury and Agency securities, as well as very high credit quality securities in corporate bonds and asset-backed securities. We tried to stay on the sidelines of risk as much as ...

By Tajinder Dhillon Brent oil has entered into a bear market, as prices have fallen almost $30 a barrel since the beginning of the year. Initial worries over COVID-19 caused the largest weekly decline in Brent oil prices since January 2016, having declined 13.6% during the week of February...

By Glenn Voyles, Director of Portfolio Management, Corporate Bonds, Franklin Templeton Fixed Income; Bryant Dieffenbacher, Research Analyst, Franklin Templeton Fixed Income and Matt Fey, Director of Research, Corporate Bonds, Franklin Templeton Fixed Income Financial markets across the glo...

Co-produced by Stanford Chemist PGIM High Yield Bond Fund ( ISD ) enjoyed quite the total market returns in 2019. The fund put up a 28.40% total market return as compared to its total NAV return of 17.47%. That can be explained by the fund boosting its distribution twice in 2019, as well...

Here's that iceberg that is drifting toward our economy's Titanic... and no, it ain't a virus, but it is our choice: Via: @Schuldensuehner Years of easy credit, easy money. The pile of debt from Baa to lower ratings is the real threat here, for its sustainability is heavily contingent on t...

PGIM High Yield Bond Fund, Inc. (NYSE: ISD) and PGIM Global High Yield Fund, Inc. (NYSE: GHY) declared today monthly distributions for March, April and May 2020. The distribution amounts and schedule for each fund appears below: The distribution amounts are forward-looking and may include...

Investment returns will likely come down to a few big, unpredictable issues this year. We look at how they might upend market expectations. After a year of outsized returns for both equity and fixed-income markets, expectations for 2020 returns have settled closer to their long-run average...