PCQ News and Press, PIMCO California Municipal Income Fund From 01/31/20

Introduction The global concerns about the coronavirus helped the safer assets to increase their prices. Among the winning asset classes were the municipal bonds and the closed-end funds which invest in them. The market participants also expect to understand if there is going to be a chang...

Note: Data from the article are from January 10, 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 or upcoming corporate ac...

Introduction The sector reported another positive week, and the closed-end funds from the area continue to be traded at relatively high Z-scores. Therefore, we are not aggressive in our long positions and are very cautious when we try to find opportunities. Some of the interesting cand...

Introduction The first full week of the year was very positive for the municipal bonds and the closed-end funds that invest in them. Just a year ago, the market environment was totally different and it was possible to find many interesting buying opportunities in the area. Currently, the c...

Author's note : This article was released to CEF/ETF Income Laboratory members on December 17, 2019. Chemist's Closed-End Fund Report Quantitative screens help to rapidly narrow down attractive candidates from the database of 500-plus closed-end funds [CEFs] for further due diligence ...

Introduction Over the past year, the municipal bonds showed a very strong performance, and they managed to increase their prices significantly. The end of the year is a fact, and it is very interesting to see what will be the performance of the sector in 2020. Of course, the policy of the ...

This article was published to members of Yield Hunting on December 24th. All data herein is from that date or prior. The PIMCO UNII report was just released. You can see that I haven't sent out an update on it yet, but the data was essentially what we thought - with the dollar rebounding, ...

Introduction The municipal bonds impressed us with their performance in 2019. Since November 2018, the sector increased its price significantly. Of course, one of the main reasons was the policy of the central bank of the United States and, more specifically, the interest rate decreases wh...

Main Thesis The purpose of this article is to evaluate the PIMCO California Municipal Income Fund II (PCK) as an investment option at its current market price. PCK has performed well in 2019, and I see reasons to remain optimistic in 2020. While muni bonds are getting increasingly expensive,...

Introduction Over the past few months, most of you have noticed our increased activity in closed-end funds as the inflow of volatility finally shook them up and created various arbitrage and directional opportunities for active traders like us. Currently, we are cautious when we choose o...