PCI News and Press, PIMCO Dynamic Credit and Mortgage Income Fund of Beneficial Interest From 03/01/21

Broadly-defined commodities were the clear leader last month. US and foreign stocks also posted solid gains as did real estate investment trusts. The overall trend for markets was bullish last month, based on the Global Market Index (GMI). For further details see: Major ...

We take a look at the PIMCO CEF leverage and coverage numbers for December. Overall, December was a pretty good month for shareholders as coverage increased across the board, NAV gains exceeded distributions while PIMCO took aggregate leverage lower to reflect less attractive valuatio...

The taxable PIMCO CEFs are still trading below 100% coverage thanks to the falling dollar. That could improve in January as the dollar has rebounded some. In this space, we continue to like RCS and PHK. PGP is a good S&P 500 proxy. Muni CEF coverage continues to get healthier....

At WisdomTree, we think there is a unique opportunity presented in developed markets-one best accessed through a quality- and dividend growth-focused framework. In 2015, we launched the WisdomTree International Hedged Quality Dividend Growth Fund (IHDG), which seeks to track the Wisdo...

Stocks in emerging markets continued to lead the major asset classes in January as the top monthly performer. Emerging markets shares have been up for four straight months, pushing this slice of the world's equities to a wide one-year lead of nearly 28%. US stocks are posting the ...

The COVID-19 pandemic has created a lot of uncertainties surrounding the fair market valuation of level 3 type of assets. BIT has announced that it will allocate 65% of the monthly distribution in January 2021 as a return of capital. The worsening of the global pandemic with the n...

If you've just retired and had a sizable chunk of cash to put to work, where can you earn a decent income while preserving your capital? The stock market is in a new bull-market after a brief but deep correction last year. Will the market keep going higher, or are there signs of troub...

Most investors consider day-to-day movements in their market values as the best measure for assessing risk of their positions. For CEF investors who are more concerned with income and capital preservation. So, we introduce some metrics to assess the yield being generated to the ri...

I introduced the Simple Retirement Portfolios to investors last year. Portfolios are meant to provide retirees with a simple way to invest their retirement savings, but with greater yields and performance than comparable funds and indexes. The portfolios have accomplished their go...

2020 year-end review of our 8% Income Portfolio. This high-income portfolio has been through a pretty rough patch in the year 2020, but it's mostly back on its feet. The portfolio has been meeting its income goals handily but has not kept up in total returns this past year. We...