PCI News and Press, PIMCO Dynamic Credit and Mortgage Income Fund of Beneficial Interest From 07/08/20

(This report was issued to members of Yield Hunting on June 18.) The monthly update on PIMCO CEFs came out this week without much changes to the figures. Overall, we think the report was relatively benign and continues to signal the same result: Nothing to be afraid of here. However...

By Jill Mislinski All eight indexes on our world watch list posted losses through July 6, 2020. The top performer is our own S&P 500 with a loss of 1.58%. China's Shanghai is in second with a loss of 2.15% and in third is Tokyo's Nikkei 225 with a loss of 3.98%. Coming in last is Londo...

Written by Nick Ackerman, co-produced by Stanford Chemist In the closed-end fund world, there are plenty of fund sponsors offering funds worthy of investing. Investors looking at getting started with CEFs may be interested in knowing where to get started. One of the first steps that can ...

PMI Composite FLASH Markit’s Composite Purchasing Managers Index has continued to recover, rising to 46.8 in mid-June from 37.0 in May. This is well off the low of 27 set in April. While it still shows the economy is in contraction (below 50.0), there is clearly a slowdown in the ra...

According to CPB Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis, World Exports (Volume) experienced a significant decline in April, down 16.8% YoY, registering their highest contraction since May 2009 (-19%). While EM exports fell by 'only' 6.5%, they experienced a titanic drop of 24.8% in ad...

(This report was issued to members of Yield Hunting on Sunday, June 14, 2020. We issue similar commentary every Sunday night) Macro Picture Volatility returned this week in a big way with the Dow recording one of its largest point declines ever. The renewed fears of a second wave of coro...

With the May PIMCO coverage figures out on Wednesday, we take this opportunity to follow-up on our previous article on PIMCO muni CEFs to quickly touch on the action in the broader suite of funds. Investors who don't play in the PIMCO space should still hopefully find this article relevant. In...

It has been a challenging and humbling year for many investors, myself included. It is hard to believe that less than six months ago we were writing about a year (2019) just concluded that saw a 24% total return from an Income Factory that was producing, reinvesting and compounding cash dist...

A few months ago, we wrote an article here on Seeking Alpha about a portfolio strategy that we like to call NPP (Near Perfect Portfolio) strategy. This was when the virus-induced countrywide lockdowns had just started, and the stock market and the broader economy looked in deep trouble. Th...

(This report was issued to members of Yield Hunting on May 26th.) Branding matters. Think of this. In the 1980s, PepsiCo ( PEP ) began running commercials with The Pepsi Challenge, where people would try two colas as a taste test and select which they liked better. Not surprisingly, Pepsi ...