NAD News and Press, Nuveen Quality Municipal Income Fund From 10/16/18

Please note : This article was first released to CEF/ETF Income Laboratory members 2 weeks ago, so data may be out of date. Please check latest data before making investment decisions. The Weekly Closed-End Fund Roundup will be put out at the start of each week to summarize re...

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Please note : This article was first released to members of CEF/ETF Income Laboratory 2 weeks ago, so data may be out of date. Please check latest data before making investment decisions. The Weekly Closed-End Fund Roundup will be put out at the start of each week to summarize t...

There's more than one way to invest in municipal bonds. Closed-end municipal funds seek to provide higher levels of income, and short-term volatility can present attractive entry points for long-term investors. Municipal bonds offer multiple benefits to income-seeking investors-high qualit...

The Weekly CEF Roundup will be put out at the start of each week to summarize recent price movements in closed-end fund [CEF] sectors in the last week, as well as to highlight recently concluded or upcoming corporate actions on CEFs, such as tender offers. Most of the information has been so...

By John R. Mousseau, CFA In a year when we have seen commentators talking about the relative flatness of yield curves, we have a conundrum when we look at the US Treasury yield curve and the US muni yield curve (shown here as the Bloomberg AA general obligation yield curve). Curve 1 belo...

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Moody's Investors Service's recently released annual municipal bond market snapshot, US Municipal Bond Defaults and Recoveries, 1970-2017, with updates through 2017, reaffirms two hallmark benefits that muni bonds continue to offer. First, muni bonds continued to be highly rated in 2017, wit...

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This month saw a more mixed results in the distribution announcements for closed end funds. The muni side again saw a significant amount of cuts to the distribution. Last month, Nuveen saw no cuts to their distributions but this month the funds that cut totaled 14. In aggregate, 8 funds incr...