IVH News and Press, Ivy High Income Opportunities Fund of Beneficial Interest From 01/20/20

By Matthew Sheridan The era of low yields and the investment challenges they bring isn't likely to end soon. Ongoing geopolitical tensions and slowing global growth will contribute to persistently low and negative yields in 2020 . A global slowdown could leave the world even more vulnerab...

As we reported throughout 2019, our Income Factory has more than recovered from the market price drops of the previous year, while still managing to maintain a high distribution yield level. These past two years, together, are a good "case study" for explaining and demonstrating our Income F...

Introduction The seeking of high-yield opportunities continues, and the sector of the high-yield bonds continues with its strong performance. This year has started more than well for these assets, and even the fears of a military confrontation between the U.S. and Iran were not enough to i...

By Kevin Flanagan, Head of Fixed Income Strategy and Josh Shapiro, CFA, Quantitative Strategist Our base case is that the credit cycle will not turn in 2020. Investors will likely continue to seek income in higher-yielding fixed income assets. An important topic in credit strategy resear...

Unlike the days of the gold standard, it is impossible for the Federal Reserve to go bankrupt; it holds the legal monopoly of counterfeiting (of creating money out of thin air) in the entire country. - Murray Rothbard First it was a game, a wonderful game, but just a game. Then, as fic...

Introduction The closed-end funds from the high-yield sector continue with their solid performance. The first days of 2020 were very positive for the benchmark of the sector. The closed-end funds which invest in high-yield bonds did not impress us with their performance but most of them ...

You Can't Fight the Central Banks "Let me issue and control a nation's money and I care not who writes the laws." - Mayer Amschel Rothschild When I was growing up in Kansas City, Missouri I often heard the expression that "You can't fight City Hall." This comment was based upon the o...

Author's note : This article was released to CEF/ETF Income Laboratory members on December 4, 2019. Please check latest data before making investment decisions. Chemist's "High-High-Low" Closed-End Fund Report Quantitative screens help to rapidly narrow down attractive candidates fr...

Introduction The closed-end funds from the high-yield sector significantly increased their prices over the past few months. Currently, most of them are traded at positive Z-scores, which is an indication that they have lost most of their statistical edge. Still, they are traded at high dis...

By Patricia Healy, CFA This commentary continues the discussion on key themes of the year, many long-term in nature, & reveal the need for govts & businesses to adapt. Pensions, budgets, state ratings, climate adaptation, cybersecurity, and investing This fourth-quarter com...