JPT News and Press, Nuveen Preferred and Income 2022 Term Fund of Beneficial Interest From 01/15/21

December was another good month for CEFs with some discount tightening and NAV growth. The Core Portfolio was up over 1% with the NAV up 1.8%. The January Effect could bring discounts to an expensive level if the recent trends continue. At that point we would want to start reducing CE...

Preferred securities are one alternative source of income that investors may want to consider when looking to enhance yield in their portfolios. To alleviate concerns of concentration risk, we believe investors should consider non-financial preferreds ("ex financials"), which provide ...

Preferred securities can carry features of both equities and fixed-income, while providing a fixed dividend payment. They are traditionally more stable than equities, due to the features that make them a fixed-income investment. We are looking at how CEFs in this space plummeted i...

We believe the overall credit health of the preferred market remains strong. Fixed income markets have seemingly come full circle thus far in 2020. Preferreds with exposure to commercial real estate, consumer spending, and energy all still offer above-average yield and total retur...

Steadily lower yields and heightened volatility make relative value opportunities an attractive alpha generation strategy in CEFs. We take a look at the relative value opportunities on offer in the preferreds CEF sector. A couple of rotation opportunities within the Flaherty fund ...

Nuveen: Nuveen AMT-Free Municipal Credit Income Fund (NYSE: NVG), Nuveen AMT-Free Municipal Value Fund (NYSE: NUW), Nuveen AMT-Free Quality Municipal Income Fund (NYSE: NEA), Nuveen Arizona Quality Municipal Income Fund (NYSE: NAZ), Nuveen Californi...

The last few days the financial markets saw some of the sharpest moves since the end of the March drawdown. In this article we take a look at how these moves have made themselves felt across the CEF space. In particular we note two interesting dynamics. First, the beta of the CEF market in a...

Preferred stocks form an integral part of many income portfolios. In this article we review this CEF sector and give an update of how the sector funds stack up. Our main takeaway is that the Flaherty and Crumrine funds remain good options for low turnover investors due to their attractive yiel...

(This report was issued to members of Yield Hunting on Sunday, June 14, 2020. We issue similar commentary every Sunday night) Macro Picture Volatility returned this week in a big way with the Dow recording one of its largest point declines ever. The renewed fears of a second wave of coro...

Markets have settled and recovered from the initial shock of the coronavirus spread and the response of governments around the US and the world to lock down the economy. But while the major US indices have approached, if not quite matched, the fabled v-shaped recovery, there are still plenty o...