KIO News and Press, KKR Income Opportunities Fund From 02/16/21

It is my opinion, when considering both the inflation component and the credit risk component, that most bonds are not providing any real value currently. One strategy that should be considered is not buying any more bonds at present. The second is to take a careful look at your portf...

Many investors are suspicious of closed-end funds' apparently magical ability to buy assets whose "natural" yield is, for example, 6%, and pay distributions of, say, 9%. Is there some sort of alchemy at work here? Often when things seem "too good to be true," they are too good to be t...

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, HPI, and HPF. For further details see: 'High-High-Low' Closed-End Fund Report, (Belated...

For income investors, closed-end funds remain an attractive investment class that cover a variety of asset classes and promise high distributions and reasonable total returns. The market downturn last year exposed the risk of high volatility and deep drawdowns with investing in closed...

Risk assets have compressed in yield against Treasuries, so that any meaningful yield of anything has gotten wrung out of the markets. For the first time ever, yields in the High Yield markets are now less than 4.00%. In other words, you are getting paid about nothing for credit risk....

Returns in the US treasury market have gotten off to a bad start. Long-term US treasuries are already down over 5% YTD, which would be only the second time in the last ten years that the asset class started off the year so poorly. While treasuries have been weak, not all areas of ...

Our study showed that a COVID-19 vaccine would be the single most important factor in giving people confidence to resume normal spending habits. School reopenings should provide a further impulse to the recovery. Fiscal and monetary policy have already provided enormous stimulus, ...

The way investors measure risk in the bond market is by looking at the spread of riskier bonds to U.S. Treasuries. The Fed's extreme intervention in financial markets is why a stock market correction, though overdue, is not coming. Companies and their stock prices can and do devia...

KKR Income Opportunities Fund (the “Fund”) (NYSE: KIO) today announced that it will hold an investor update call on Tuesday, February 16th, 2021 at 1:00pm ET. Jeremiah Lane and Aaron Dalrymple will host the call and provide market color and portfolio updates for the fourth...

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...