IVH News and Press, Ivy High Income Opportunities Fund of Beneficial Interest From 05/07/21

Only funds with coverage >100% are considered. Top lists of discount, yield, DxY and DxYxZ are given. With discounts contracting, few non-muni income choices are attractively valued anymore. For further details see: The Quality Closed-End Fund Report, April 2021

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...

Ivy High Income Opportunities Fund (IVH) declares $0.075/share monthly dividend, -6.3% decrease from prior dividend of $0.080.Forward yield 6.48%Payable May 28; for shareholders of record May 14; ex-div May 13.See IVH Dividend Scorecard, Yield Chart, & Dividend Growth. For further detai...

Ivy High Income Opportunities Fund (NYSE: IVH) (the “Fund”) today announced that Joseph Harroz, Jr., Ann D. Borowiec, Jerome D. Abernathy, Janet L. Yeomans and John A. Fry were elected as Class I Trustees; Sandra A.J. Lawrence, Shawn K. Lytle, Thomas L. Bennett and Thomas ...

There has been much commentary suggesting bonds have gotten overvalued due to historically low rates. At current rates, economic growth will likely very quickly return to sub-2% growth by 2022. Are bonds overvalued? No. But stocks are, and the bond market is ringing alarm bells wa...

The underlying quality mix in the high yield market is at an all-time high. The high yield market has benefited in recent years from reduced levels in two key drivers of ratings downgrades and default triggers. High yield new issuance set a record during 2020. For further de...

The average CCC-or-below rated junk bonds have yielded between 7.09% and 7.16% over the past two weeks, a new all-time record low. AMC Entertainment, which has been talking about how it is trying to stave off a bankruptcy filing, issued $500 million of secured notes in April 2020 to g...

In today’s low-yield landscape, income investors find themselves depending on higher-yielding investments such as bank loans, high-yield bonds and dividend-paying equities. Reaching for yield can be especially dangerous for income investors because of sequence risk - the risk o...

The bond market is partying like it's 1999, and there is no end in sight. Despite wide spreads and tight spreads, bonds still need to be bought by insurance companies, money managers, university endowments and other institutions that have ratings partially based upon their bond positi...