KF News and Press, Korea Fund Inc. From 12/07/20

As the year is starting to wind down, I wanted to take an updated look at what distribution changes happened throughout the year. We had previously done this for a more specific time frame; the time frame of the pandemic to shortly after in June. Again, I'm surprised at how resili...

The Korea Fund, Inc. (NYSE: KF) (the “Fund”) has announced that its Board of Directors (the “Board”) has adopted a policy (the “Policy”) pursuant to which it will cause the Fund to conduct an issuer tender offer for up to twenty-five percent (25...

Korea Fund (KF): FQ1 NII of -$0.07.Press Release For further details see: Korea Fund reports FQ1 results

The Korea Fund, Inc. (the "Fund") (NYSE: KF), a non-diversified, closed-end investment company, which seeks long-term capital appreciation through investment in securities, primarily equity securities of Korean companies, today announced its results for the fiscal quarter ended Septembe...

South Korean equities seem to have underperformed U.S. equities for years, as the latter have been especially popular internationally. However, South Korea has grown into what can now be considered a technologically sophisticated, and developed, economy. With China and other faste...

Fifteen countries that make up nearly a third of the world's population and gross domestic product have formed the world's largest trading bloc.The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership, or RCEP, was signed by China, Japan, South Korea, Australia, New Zealand and the 10 ASEAN member cou...

Global business cycles are closely interconnected. Global business cycles are closely synchronized. Global equity markets respond accordingly. For further details see: Investing In Foreign Markets Sounds Exciting - But Isn't Always

Disaggregating international exposure allows investors to assign a different weight to specific countries relative to their respective weighting within a broad market-cap weighted index. Interestingly, the majority of the countries we anticipate performing well are in Asia, notably So...

For the first month in six, equity CEFs on average posted negative returns, declining 2.56% on a NAV basis for September. While for the sixth month running, fixed income CEFs witnessed returns in the black (+0.02%). Only 12% of all CEFs traded at a premium to their NAV, with 11% o...

Written by Nick Ackerman, co-produced by Stanford Chemist Generally, closed-end funds are sought after for their high distributions. These are typically paid on a monthly or quarterly frequency. Monthly paying funds are especially appealing to income-oriented investors. However, within t...