PCM News and Press, PCM Fund Inc. From 05/23/19

Main Thesis The purpose of this article is to evaluate the PCM Fund, Inc. ( PCM ) as an investment option at its current market price. While I was cautious about PCM at the start of the year, the fund has performed very well, offering strong share price returns along with a high yield. Helpi...

Firth Ratings has issued a warning - a general one, not about any specific fund or provider of them - concerning open-ended bond funds. The essential and basic idea of such funds leaves them potentially vulnerable to the same problems banking is. That of a bank run where withdrawals outpace th...

To liquefy the bond market, the financial risk management profession thinks to introduce the innovations to bond trading that led to the stock market liquidity/volume explosion of the early 21st Century. Various financial firms have introduced four principal innovations: Index funds Futu...

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 or upcoming corporate actions on CEFs, such as tender offers. Most of the informati...

This article was first released to subscribers 2 weeks ago. This article was co-produced with Triple F Fred . Today, I will profile a medium-size CEF bond fund with several interesting attributes. The fund is BlackRock Income Trust ( BKT ) and is operated by BlackRock (BLK), one of the ...

This article was first released to subscribers 1 month ago. Quantitative screens help to rapidly narrow down attractive candidates from the database of 500-plus closed-end funds [CEFs] for further due diligence and investigation. Previous editions of the Report can be searched using the ke...

Main Thesis The purpose of this article is to assess the PCM Fund, Inc. (NYSE: PCM ) as an investment option at its current market price. The fund is trading at a modest premium to net asset value ((NAV)), with the premium at about half the level it was when Q4 began last year. However, the ...

Sophisticates across the pundit and professional economic classes have been busy the past couple of days telling us an inverted yield curve means nothing. More news on: iShares Core Total U.S. Bond Market ETF, Vanguard Total Bond Market ETF, PIMCO Corporate&Income Opportunity Fund, New...

Author's note: All data is as of Friday, November 16, 2018 , so numbers may be out of date. Please check latest data before making investment decisions. The Weekly Closed-End Fund Roundup will be put out at the start of each week to summarize recent price movements in closed-end f...

PIMCO Corporate & Income Strategy Fund (NYSE: PCN ) - $0.1125. PIMCO Corporate & Income Opportunity Fund (NYSE: PTY ) - $0.1300. PIMCO Global StocksPLUS® & Income Fund (NYSE: PGP ) - $0.1220. PIMCO High Income Fund (NYSE: PHK ) - $0.0807. PIMCO Income Opportunity Fun...