JMF News and Press, Nuveen Energy MLP Total Return Fund of Beneficial Interest From 05/05/21

President Biden supports raising the corporate tax rate from 21% to 28%, and the Biden Administration has also proposed raising the income tax rate for the highest earners from 37% to 39.6% and increasing the rate on capital gains and dividends from 20% to 39.6% for those with annual inco...

Cost management and asset optimization helped partially offset macro headwinds in 2020, contributing to stable EBITDA and allowing excess cash flow to be used for debt reduction and in some cases, buybacks. While controlling costs helped many companies navigate market headwinds, some ...

Midstream MLPs, as measured by the Solactive MLP Infrastructure Index, increased 8.33% last month. The index has increased by 100.36% since last March. The current yield on MLPs stands at 9.04%. The Enterprise Value to EBITDA ratio (EV-to-EBITDA), which seeks to provide more color...

High yield generally means high risk. Blindly chasing for high yield rarely ends well for individual investors. We discuss five things that you need to know before becoming a high-yield investor. For further details see: What I Wish I Knew Before Investing In High-Yield ...

Private equity activity in midstream has served as a catalyst for the space in the past, and a more stable macro environment could lead to additional transactions in 2021 after a relatively quiet 2020. Thus far in 2021, there have been some examples of private equity purchasing non-co...

One of the potential tailwinds for midstream in 2021 relative to past recoveries is the proliferation of buyback programs supported by expectations for robust free cash flow generation this year. Since Alerian's last buyback note in November, Pembina Pipeline (PPL CN) formally announc...

Crude oil prices reached a nearly 14-month high as the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries and its allies (OPEC+) agreed not to increase oil output in April. Midstream MLPs, as measured by the Solactive MLP Infrastructure Index, increased 8.02% last month. The curren...

Many macro and political overhangs lifted by the end of Q4, with optimism about the re-opening economy driving Energy sector gains. Value sectors like Energy shined as the economy rebounded, and small cap and cyclical sectors became market leaders. With rising inflation, midstream...

Oil prices have likely recovered more quickly than anticipated thanks to the disciplined cooperation of OPEC+. While midstream is unique from other energy sectors given its more defensive, fee-based business model, midstream MLPs and C-Corps have participated in energy’s rally....

Pipelines are undergoing a renaissance of cash generation today. The pandemic and low commodity prices increased uncertainty in the industry, and pipeline companies stopped investing in new projects and have thus been generating enormous cash flows. This trend did not start in 2020, b...