PCF News and Press, High Income Securities Fund From 04/03/20

Anthony Okolie recaps the biggest news of the day including the latest COVID-19 developments, followed by a conversation with Greg Kocik, Head of High Yield Bond Group, TD Asset Management, about the potential opportunities in the high yield and corporate bond space. Original Post ...

As previously announced, High Income Securities Fund, Inc. (NYSE: PCF) (the “Fund”) intends to make monthly distributions at an annual rate of at least 10% per annum (or 0.8333% per month) as long as the Fund continues to be a registered investment company. The distributions for...

“Convince me why I shouldn’t buy junk bonds.” It wasn’t a challenge. My colleague Kyle was looking at some of the juicy yields on offer in high-yield bonds and was legitimately wondering why he shouldn’t load up his IRA with them. I’m not saying ...

The credit market will be pivotal during the current crisis. In 2008, we had a problem in the credit market (Subprime mortgages), which made financial institutions move into credit tightening mode. Soon, that start cascading into the real economy. The current environment inverts that relation...

"We penetrated deeper and deeper into the Heart of Darkness" - Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness At the beginning of 2020 I said that the New Year would be nothing like the last year. Things are playing out as predicted, with Coronavirus thrown in for good measure, and with devastating co...

By Tajinder Dhillon Brent oil has entered into a bear market, as prices have fallen almost $30 a barrel since the beginning of the year. Initial worries over COVID-19 caused the largest weekly decline in Brent oil prices since January 2016, having declined 13.6% during the week of February...

By Glenn Voyles, Director of Portfolio Management, Corporate Bonds, Franklin Templeton Fixed Income; Bryant Dieffenbacher, Research Analyst, Franklin Templeton Fixed Income and Matt Fey, Director of Research, Corporate Bonds, Franklin Templeton Fixed Income Financial markets across the glo...

Here's that iceberg that is drifting toward our economy's Titanic... and no, it ain't a virus, but it is our choice: Via: @Schuldensuehner Years of easy credit, easy money. The pile of debt from Baa to lower ratings is the real threat here, for its sustainability is heavily contingent on t...

Stubbornly low interest rates still have many investors reaching far and wide for yield. But for others, high-yield corporate bonds are a bridge too far. Are they too risky? Do they hold up in volatile markets? Do they represent too much of an unknown? In fact, high-yield bonds have historic...

Investment returns will likely come down to a few big, unpredictable issues this year. We look at how they might upend market expectations. After a year of outsized returns for both equity and fixed-income markets, expectations for 2020 returns have settled closer to their long-run average...