KIO News and Press, KKR Income Opportunities Fund From 06/22/20

Billionaire investor and GMO co-founder Jeremy Grantham is growing more and more sure that the U.S. stock market's rebound amid the coronavirus pandemic is a bubble that will end up hurting many people. "My confidence is rising quite rapidly that this is the fourth 'Real McCoy' bubble of my...

(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...

So much of the mainstream financial media focuses on the stock market, and yet the corporate bond markets, and that would include securitized product and even municipal bonds, have (in my opinion) a huge information vacuum for the smaller advisor or individual investor. The corporate bond ma...

Author's note: This article was initially released to members of CEF/ETF Income Laboratory on May 31, 2020, with certain numbers updated for public release. This month, I'd like to revisit the KKR Income Opportunities Fund (KIO), the top-ranked DxYxZ fund from last's month Chemist's "Hi...

By Kevin Flanagan, Head of Fixed Income Strategy As investors continue to sort through the aftermath of the bond market turmoil we witnessed in March, questions arise as to where there are potential relative value opportunities. The first sector that comes to mind is U.S. high-yield ((HY))...

It has been a challenging and humbling year for many investors, myself included. It is hard to believe that less than six months ago we were writing about a year (2019) just concluded that saw a 24% total return from an Income Factory that was producing, reinvesting and compounding cash dist...

By Breakingviews Bond investors are showing an impressive willingness to help keep companies afloat amid dwindling revenue thanks to coronavirus lockdowns. So far this year firms have raised some $1.1 trillion in the U.S. high-grade bond market alone, almost as much as in all of 2019. Junk...

When last I wrote, corporate credit was trading at extreme levels only seen during two or three brief periods in the last 30 years. At the time, we were extolling the opportunity to buy credit assets at historically cheap levels, and while we could not predict where the market would bottom o...

While the US equity rally has been more “slow and steady” than “big and bold” in the last couple of weeks, credit markets have been flying. In the chart below we show the spreads on CDX HY, the index of high yield credit default swaps used as a reference for junk ...

Nothing has really changed yet in terms of “style-box” returns with Growth outpacing Value and Large-Cap beating Small-Cap. Late in the week of May 222nd, The CFA Society of Chicago held a webinar with Gina Adams of Bloomberg (one of Bloomberg’s Equity Strategists), whic...