PCF News and Press, High Income Securities Fund From 01/29/21

The convertibles sector had a tremendous 2020 on the back of a number of tailwinds such as outperformance in its sector tilts, high volatility and falling rates. We take a look at the different options for investors in the sector across both open-end and closed-end funds. Interest...

U.S. Fed keeps rates near zero. Colbourne: Fed unlikely to address the recent retail stock frenzy. Colbourne: Fed likely to to be very accommodating over a long period of time. For further details see: Fed Holds On Rates, But Warns Economic Growth Is Slowing

This year is shaping up to be a really important year for market rates in terms of their influence on the financial system. With Covid vaccines being rolled out, we could easily see a 5% growth rate in the States. As ING's Padhraic Garvey tells us from New York, there could well b...

COVID turned out to be quite the economic event, and a pandemic under control promises to deliver a recovering economy by the end of 2021. On the other hand, should the vaccinations not go according to plan and the pandemic is not declining by June 2021, the economy may not recover at...

High Income Securities Fund (“the Fund”) (NYSE: PCF) announced today that its Board of Trustees has elected to extend the Expiration Date of the Fund’s non-transferable rights offering to purchase up to an aggregate of 5,565,006 additional shares of its common stock...

The price of risk is what investors demand as a premium, an extra return over and above what they can make on a guaranteed investment (risk free), to invest in a risky asset. Corporate bonds are traded, and as a consequence, and you can use traded prices to estimate default spreads in...

Investors appear almost universally to be pricing for an early-cycle mix of low interest rates and ongoing support from both monetary and fiscal policy, combined with the release of pent-up demand from consumers and manufacturers. Short-term stumbling blocks are not confined to the on...

The stock market made an all-time high in its first week of 2021, shrugging off the violence, and the Treasury market recaptured 1% on the 10-year note, closing the week at 1.12%. Furthermore, there is no pressure in the junk bond market, which, rightly or wrongly, assumes that with t...

Credit markets have staged an epic rebound from the depths of March 2020. But in a low-growth, low-yield world, we believe there may be more room to run in 2021. For investors, we believe a nimble, selective approach will be especially important to grasp the opportunities presente...

Ultra-low interest rates make it difficult for investors to earn yields in excess of inflation. High-yield bonds can be a source of income in today’s market. iShares has numerous bond ETFs that can help investors target different segments of the high yield bond market, depe...