KIO News and Press, KKR Income Opportunities Fund From 02/04/21

The world's negative-yielding debt instruments, great for governments and some corporations, are a "Fixed-Income Investor's Hell" for a whole slew of investors. Bond yields are causing many of the institutional clients and individual clients difficulties. However, you can find funds w...

Only funds with coverage >100% are considered. Top lists of discount, yield, DxY and DxYxZ are given. The top DxY funds are NHF, ARDC and KIO. For further details see: The Quality Closed-End Fund Report, January 2021

2021 will be a challenging year for bond investors, as we are starting off with low interest rates and rising inflation, explains Marvin Appel of Signalert Asset Management. As a result, I believe the most productive strategy for 2021 will be to search for higher yields in the form of...

U.S. Fed keeps rates near zero. Colbourne: Fed unlikely to address the recent retail stock frenzy. Colbourne: Fed likely to to be very accommodating over a long period of time. For further details see: Fed Holds On Rates, But Warns Economic Growth Is Slowing

This year is shaping up to be a really important year for market rates in terms of their influence on the financial system. With Covid vaccines being rolled out, we could easily see a 5% growth rate in the States. As ING's Padhraic Garvey tells us from New York, there could well b...

COVID turned out to be quite the economic event, and a pandemic under control promises to deliver a recovering economy by the end of 2021. On the other hand, should the vaccinations not go according to plan and the pandemic is not declining by June 2021, the economy may not recover at...

The price of risk is what investors demand as a premium, an extra return over and above what they can make on a guaranteed investment (risk free), to invest in a risky asset. Corporate bonds are traded, and as a consequence, and you can use traded prices to estimate default spreads in...

KKR Income Opportunities Fund (KIO) declares $0.105/share monthly dividend, in line with previous.Forward yield 8.64%Payable Feb. 26; for shareholders of record Feb. 12; ex-div Feb. 11.Payable Mar. 31; for shareholders of record Mar. 12; ex-div Mar. 11.Payable April. 30; for shareholders of r...

Investors appear almost universally to be pricing for an early-cycle mix of low interest rates and ongoing support from both monetary and fiscal policy, combined with the release of pent-up demand from consumers and manufacturers. Short-term stumbling blocks are not confined to the on...

Only funds with yield over 7.5%, coverage higher than 90% and trading at a discount are considered. Top lists of discount, yield, DxY and DxYxZ are given. The top DxYxZ funds are DSL, PGZ, and KIO. For further details see: The 'High-High-Low' Closed-End Fund Report, Dece...