PCF News and Press, High Income Securities Fund From 05/21/20

By Michael D. Hyman CIO, Global Investment Grade and Emerging Markets Invesco Fixed Income ; Matt Brill, Senior Portfolio Manager Senior Portfolio Manager ; Steven Thompson, Senior Client Portfolio Manager The central bank’s actions should support liquidity and ...

With the sound of the Munchkins ringing in my head, and the image of Judy Garland skipping along, I am reminded of all of this, when I look at what the Fed is now doing. They have expanded their borders past anything that we have seen before, in a further effort to combat our coronavirus pande...

It is looking more and more as if the markets might look to retest some of the March lows, or at least scare us into thinking it will. With unemployment continuing to build, the fear of a second wave of COVID-19 and the craziness of the government spending/printing money, we find ourselves liv...

Author's note : This article was released to CEF/ETF Income Laboratory members on May 5, 2020. 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 recent...

By Susan Hutman and Robert Hopper The coronavirus pandemic continues to wreak havoc across economies and markets. A wave of rating downgrades, fallen angels and corporate bond defaults has begun - and it could grow into a tsunami before the pandemic recedes. But that doesn't mean invest...

Source: Allenrsmith.com "Putting lipstick on a pig" is an old saying popularized during an Obama campaign event in which he said "You can put lipstick on a pig, but it's still a pig." And that was the first thing that came to mind when the Federal Reserve (Fed) announced it umpteenth Bazoo...

There was one article after another article, every place you looked, that the U.S. equity markets were going to correct anywhere from 25% to 50% down. That has not exactly been the case. The American stock markets have been up and up and up as the wrong focus was used. I have said, countless t...

Author's note: This article was initially released to members on April 20, 2020. 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 ...

By enhancing liquidity and improving functionality in the corporate bond markets, new U.S. Federal Reserve (Fed) programs have been good news in the short term. Yet a number of unknowns remain regarding the rollout of these programs, and we foresee potentially challenging impacts for more high...

Junk bonds - those rated BB or lower - surged earlier this month as the US Federal Reserve announced it would be buying high yield ETFs for the first time in history. The announcement came on April 9, less than three weeks following the equity market low on March 23. On the news, speculative...