KIO News and Press, KKR Income Opportunities Fund From 02/13/19

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....

Praise out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart as much as blame." - Pearl S. Buck Watching with interest the weakening tone in February in credit markets following the stellar month of January, in conjunction with confirmation of a global slowdown, and with no resolutio...

The US high-yield market has suffered ten peak-to-trough losses greater than 5% in the last 20 years. On average, investors recovered their losses in only four months - and sometimes as few as two. Following the longest and largest drawdown of -35%, which lasted 19 months, investors who stay...

By Collin Martin The investment-grade corporate bond market has gotten riskier. BBB rated corporate bonds now make up more than half of the investment-grade corporate bond market,¹ and the share keeps rising. We suggest investors play defense with their investment-grade corporate bo...

By Kevin Flanagan, Senior Fixed Income Strategist A bit over a month into the new year, and the two asset classes whose performance stands out are U.S. investment grade ((IG)) and high-yield ((HY)) bonds. This recent turn of events is certainly a noteworthy reversal of fortune from how 201...

It takes 35 years in the trenches of the junk bond market for an investment professional to come up with a one-liner that summarizes the volatility of low-grade debt: “It reads like a bond, but trades like a stock.” As junk bond spreads were blowing out in January 2016, the ...

It's good to be a Blackstone (NYSE: BX ) partner. Feeling its oats after the major rally in high-yield, the private-equity giant's Ascend Learning yesterday launched a CCC-rated $300M offering to fund a dividend distribution. More news on: The Blackstone Group L.P., iShares iBoxx $ High Yi...

This article was originally published January 22, 2019. At the start of 2018, the main story of the markets was the synchronized global growth story. Couple that with the recently passed tax reform bill and you had analysts expecting earnings growth in the 20-25% range. For the first 9 mon...

Just like the broader market this week, the rally in high yield credit stalled out a bit. Earlier on Friday, we highlighted the fact that the S&P 500 ran into resistance right at its 200-DMA earlier this week and has been pulling back ever since. In the case of the ETF that tracks the hi...

U.S. high-yield funds pulled in $3.86B for the week ended Friday, the largest amount since July of 2016, according to Lipper data. More news on: iShares iBoxx $ High Yield Corporate Bond ETF, SPDR Bloomberg Barclays High Yield Bond ETF, Credit Suisse High Yield Bond Fund, Financial stocks ...