KIO News and Press, KKR Income Opportunities Fund From 01/03/19

Bank of America increases its U.S. high-yield bond default rate estimate for the next year to 5.5% from 4.25% due to volatility and tighter financial conditions. More news on: iShares iBoxx $ High Yield Corporate Bond ETF, SPDR Bloomberg Barclays High Yield Bond ETF, Credit Suisse High Yie...

Welcome to my December update for my Green Dot Portfolio, a real self-managed retirement portfolio created in a Roth IRA trading account. At the end of October, I reported that the first year had ended since my portfolio was presented on Seeking Alpha, and that I had surpassed my initial goa...

Original Post Crescat Capital December 31, 2018, update to investors below. We are happy to report estimates for Crescat's 2018 performance: Profit Attribution by Theme Investment Outlook Summary September 20, 2018, should mark the closing high for the S&P 500 to end the s...

How the Corporate Debt Bubble Will Crush Stocks Corporate debt, after years of encouragement by the Fed via artificially low interest rates, has reached historic levels. Now even the Fed is worried about its handiwork. Many of these companies will default over the next few years. This is a c...

With stocks melting upwards, Treasury yields rose modestly today, but junk yields fell thanks to narrowing spreads. More news on: iShares iBoxx $ High Yield Corporate Bond ETF, SPDR Bloomberg Barclays High Yield Bond ETF, Invesco Senior Loan ETF, News on the U.S. economy, Stocks on the mov...

As equity prices have cratered in the last several trading days, one area of the market that has predictably come under selling pressure is high yield credit. The chart below shows the 50-day rate of change in spreads on high yield bonds relative to treasuries. When spreads are rising, it indi...

The Junk-Bond Market Just "Puked." Risk is getting repriced. And rather suddenly. What are the real-world consequences? And how will it impact stocks? The Fed has warned about them, and investors fear a run-on-the-fund. Read… $1.3 Trillion "Leveraged Loan" Boom Comes Read...

Quantitative screens help to rapidly narrow down attractive candidates from the database of 500-plus closed-end funds (CEFs) for further due diligence and investigation. The "High-High-Low" was inspired by a member of CEF/ETF Income Laboratory , who wrote: Stanford, you should do a foll...

With the price plunge which started in early October, the P/E ratio of the S&P 500 (using Bloomberg's measure, which is based on 12-month trailing earnings from continuing operations) has fallen from a high of 23.3 last January to 16.48 currently. To put this into perspective, consider tha...

Introduction The opportunities in closed-end funds over the last few months caught the eye of many investors. Most of these products are designed to provide a steady stream of income, usually on a monthly or quarterly basis, as opposed to the biannual payments provided by individual bonds....