JPT News and Press, Nuveen Preferred and Income 2022 Term Fund of Beneficial Interest From 08/07/21

We review CEF market valuation and performance over the last week of July and highlight recent market events. July CEF returns were wrapped around zero in aggregate as higher NAVs were offset by wider discounts. We continue to favor funds in a number of higher-yielding niche secto...

With valuations tightening and a number of risks on the radar, it makes sense to take a margin-of-safety approach to income portfolios. A number of CEF strategies can provide additional margin-of-safety without necessarily reducing income. We discuss three additional CEF strategie...

We take a look at the preferred fund sector and discuss performance, high valuation due to tight credit spreads, and broader trends. We also discuss the key trend of redemptions and floating-rate resets that are driving CEF incomes lower, eventually likely to lead to broad-based distr...

In a low-yield environment, alpha is the new beta. We take a look at how to source cheap alpha in CEFs by pinpointing funds with a history of consistent alpha and trading at attractive valuations. We highlight JPT, EAD, BGH, and other funds. For further details see: Sour...

As Q1 comes to an end, we take a look at the performance of the CEF market year-to-date. We also take a look at the key drivers of CEF discounts going forward. And focus, in particular, on how CEF performance is likely to pan out relative to open-end funds in the current environme...

Taxable bond CEFs are now at their tightest levels of the last eight years going back to 2012-early 2013. There's not much juice left. That doesn't mean that we need to sell out of CEFs, we just need to be more prudent and vigilant. That includes re-positioning to the best ideas along...

We have been discussing tight valuations and ways to reduce risk including shifting to open-end mutual funds as you wait out valuations. Another option is shifting to term funds as a mechanism for reducing downside risk and creating that positive skew amidst rich discounts. We exa...

Global manufacturing PMI buoyed by further strong gains in production. Robust growth seen in the US, Eurozone, India and Brazil despite supply chain delays close to record high. Expansion limited by further slowdown in China, in turn linked to shipping and logistics problems. ...

The preferred sector has been rich since the end of the summer and that hasn't changed. But CEF valuations have cheapened just a bit to make them worth a look. But unless we see another significant downturn and volatility, prices can remain near par for an extended period of time. ...

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...