PCF News and Press, High Income Securities Fund From 08/02/19

The U.S. Federal Reserve cuts interest rates for the first time in more than a decade. Kim Parlee speaks with Greg Kocik, Managing Director at TD Asset Management, about how to build a high-yield portfolio in an era of low interest Read more ...

Introduction The closed-end funds from the high-yield sector significantly increased their prices over the past months. Currently, most of them are traded at positive Z-scores, which is an indication that they have lost most of their statistical edge. Still, they are traded at high discoun...

Low and likely falling interest rates coupled with tight credit spreads are limiting the bond market's upside and leaving investors searching for alternative sources of yield. While investors often have specific allocations to corporate bonds and high yield debt, not all portfolios include ded...

By Kevin Flanagan Through the first six months of the year, the global fixed income markets have certainly put in a surprising performance. Indeed, as investors headed into 2019, the consensus opinion was that fixed income would more than likely put in a lackluster showing. As we are all w...

Introduction The closed-end funds from the high-yield sector significantly increased their prices over the past months. Currently, most of them are traded at positive Z-scores, which is an indication that they have lost most of their statistical edge. Still, they are traded at high discoun...

"They say ignorance is bliss....they're wrong " - Franz Kafka If someone had told me during my long career on Wall Street that one day there would be negative yielding bonds I would have thought that person "Nuts!" It made no empirical sense then, and it makes no empirical sense now. Yet, ...

High Income Securities Fund (NYSE: PCF ) declares $0.048/share monthly dividend . Forward yield 6.96% Payable Aug. 30; for shareholders of record Aug. 15; ex-div Aug. 14. Payable Sept. 30; for shareholders of record Sept. 19; ex-div Sept. 18. See PCF Dividend Scorecard, Yield Ch...

High Income Securities Fund, Inc. (NYSE: PCF) (the “Fund”) today announced that, as long as the Fund continues to be a registered investment company, it intends, for the remainder of 2019, to make monthly distributions at an annual rate of at least 6% (or 0.5% per month), based ...

To many onlookers, since the great financial crisis, the world of fixed income securities has become an alien landscape. Yields on government bonds have fallen steadily across all developed markets. As the chart below reveals, there is now a record US$13trln+ of negative-yielding fixed income ...

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