LBDC News and Press, UBS AG London Branch FR SP ETRACS REDEEM 24/05/2041 USD 25 - Ser B

This article is a small extract out of a blog post that we've published on March 29 (written the day before). We haven't changed anything to the original post, because frankly there is no need to. Nonetheless, we did add a few new paragraphs to expand on the specific topic which is the fo...

We just experienced one of the sharpest and fastest drops in market values ever recorded. At the time of this writing… The S&P 500 ( SPY ) is down 29%. The Nasdaq (QQQ) is down 31%. The Dow (DIA) is down 32%. Data by YCharts It took years for these indexes to generate...

Normally I wait until after the end of the quarter to report on our Income Factory's performance, but I know that every day counts for readers making decisions about their own portfolios who want as many viewpoints as possible. And besides, waiting a few more days until the end of the month wo...

My next article will be submitted, as soon as possible, after March 31, 2020, and will include an estimate for the April 2020 dividend for Credit Suisse X-Links Monthly Pay 2x Leveraged Mortgage REIT ETN ( REML ). It will also include a postmortem for the UBS ETRACS Monthly Pay 2X Leveraged Mo...

BDC Stock Price Declines Business Development Companies ("BDCs") got hammered this month along with other higher-yield credit-related investments for many of the reasons discussed below. It is important for investors to understand that BDCs are mostly retail-owned and many of the investo...

Zamansky LLC is investigating UBS Financial Services Inc. (UBS), the broker-dealer, over possible sale practice violations which resulted in losses to investors in ETRACs (Symbols: HDLV, SMHD, DVHL, CEFL, CEFZ, BDCL, LBDC, MORL, MRRL, LRET, MLPQ, HOML, MLPZ, LMLP and WTID). UBS ETRACs are exc...

Picking Up The Pieces After the mREIT and ETRACs Catastrophe Some have inquired as to how my 15%+ current yield constrained portfolio has done in the recent market collapse. The UBS ETRACS Monthly Pay 2X Leveraged Mortgage REIT ETN ( MORL ) and, later, UBS ETRACS Monthly Pay 2xLeveraged Mo...

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Recently, Ares Capital ( ARCC -0.5% ) and Goldman Sachs BDC ( GSBD -0.1% ), business development companies that lend to mid-sized companies, are turning to the U.S. investment-grade bond market to refinance their own debt loads. More news on: Ares Capital, Goldman Sachs BDC, Golub Ca...

Last September, I covered Business Development Companies (BDCs) in " BIZD: Attractive 9% Yield, But Widening Credit Spreads A Risk ," which explained that, while I like BDCs for their yield, there were some macroeconomic risks that made me apprehensive to invest. Recent data suggests that it m...