NCZ News and Press, AllianzGI Convertible & Income Fund II of Beneficial Interest From 04/12/19

A modified version of this article was first released to CEF/ETF Income Laboratory subscribers on April 1, 2019. Sweeping cuts were announced after the close on April 1, 2019, to some PIMCO and AllianzGI funds. These changes are summarized in the table below. All of the funds pay monthly a...

Our Savvy Senior Income Factory started off strong in 2019, recovering all the ground lost in 2018 (in terms of total return, which was minus 9.8% last year) and then some, as it continued to produce its "river of cash" at an 11.5% weighted average distribution rate. Meanwhile most of its...

This article was first released to subscribers 1 month ago. Quantitative screens help to rapidly narrow down attractive candidates from the database of 500-plus closed-end funds [CEFs] for further due diligence and investigation. Previous editions of the Report can be searched using the ke...

April distributions announcements came out this week and the big headline has to do with PIMCO's widespread and in some cases significant chops to payouts. Allianz, the parent company of PIMCO, also cut the distribution on their two flagship convertible income funds. For April, we saw a ...

Quantitative screens help to rapidly narrow down attractive candidates from the database of 500-plus closed-end funds [CEFs] for further due diligence and investigation. Previous editions of the report can be searched using the keyword "cefrep". A database of CEFs was obtained from CEFConne...

This article was first released to subscribers 1 month ago. Quantitative screens help to rapidly narrow down attractive candidates from the database of 500-plus closed-end funds [CEFs] for further due diligence and investigation. Previous editions of the Report can be searched using the ke...

This article was first released to subscribers 2 weeks ago. The Weekly Closed-End Fund 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...

AllianzGI Convertible & Income Fund II (the "Fund") (NYSE:NCZ), a diversified closed-end management investment company which seeks to provide total return through a combination of capital appreciation and high current income, today announced its results for the fiscal quarter and nine mo...

(Note: As we didn't have the CEF Roundup last week due to my data guy being suddenly unavailable, this piece will cover the last two weeks of events. Hence, all statistics are being compared to data from two weeks ago.) The Weekly Closed-End Fund Roundup will be put out at the start of...

2018 in Review As I wrote almost two weeks ago, 2018 was a bit of a nail-biter for many reasons: geopolitical, economic and financial. ( Here's the link .) I won't repeat all the reasons why I believe it was a "perfect storm" for creating the sort of stress and angst that caused many investo...