NVG News and Press, Nuveen AMT-Free Municipal Credit Income Fund From 10/02/18

Summary Welcome to my September update for my Green Dot Portfolio, a small self-managed retirement portfolio created in a Roth IRA trading account. My goal is to yield a total realized return of at least 8% annually in cash income using high-yield dividend investments and swing trading. Tw...

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...

Welcome to my August update for my Green Dot Portfolio, a self-managed retirement portfolio created in a Roth IRA trading account. My goal is to yield a total realized return of at least 8% annually in cash income using high-yield dividend investments and swing trading. Last month I surpasse...

By Stephanie Larosiliere, Senior Client Portfolio Manager on Aug 24, 2018, in Fixed Income Tax reform created a rush of issuance last year Recently, municipal bonds have performed well despite increased market volatility and a rising interest rate environment that saw the 10-year U...

John Freund , contributing editor to Todd Shaver's BullMarket.com , sees potential opportunity for investors in two specialized closed-end income vehicles — a tax-free municipal bond fund with low leverage and and an income fund yielding 8% from global credit, corporate debt and ...