PDI News and Press, PIMCO Dynamic Income Fund From 04/03/23

2023-04-03 11:59:27 ET Summary The world seeks complexity, but simplicity often trumps complexity. For my investment goals, I have made the choice to focus mainly on CEFs and ETFs, carefully weighing their merits and drawbacks. Those of us who invest in these income vehicles a...

2023-03-31 17:13:03 ET Summary Market volatility is growing and putting risk assets under pressure. As to JPMorgan Equity Premium Income ETF and PIMCO Dynamic Income Fund, both income funds offer investors double-digit yields and can help fight inflation. However, I think one ...

2023-03-27 11:42:13 ET Summary Last month there were doom and gloom articles about PIMCO closed-end funds distribution coverage ratios having decreased steadily over the past six months. Did this portend payout cuts? While nothing is certain, PIMCO's February month-end report ...

2023-03-17 08:51:22 ET Summary RCS, a fixed income closed end fund, has an impressive long term performance. LQD, a fixed income ETF, has a solid track record too, but not as impressive. We start off with a focus on RCS and then compare it with LQD and show why LQD is the bett...

2023-03-16 09:00:00 ET Summary The Dividend Harvesting Portfolio is now generating $825 in annual dividends, yielding 8.09%. The Dividend Harvesting portfolio has a 70.75% record of finishing the week in the black since its inception, 75/106 weeks. In week 106, I added to VZ, ...

2023-03-13 23:38:36 ET Summary The last time I wrote about the PIMCO Dynamic Income Fund, I gave it pretty bullish coverage. As a bond fund, PDI can really gain from interest rate hikes, provided you buy after the hiking is done. Last week Jerome Powell indicated that he was p...

2023-03-13 16:13:39 ET Summary Unbeknownst to many investors, PIMCO’s big-yield funds, PDI and PTY, have sometimes included a significant return of capital in their beloved big distributions (made opaque through derivative swaps transactions). We reached out to PIMCO for co...

2023-03-09 09:00:00 ET Summary The Dividend Harvesting Portfolio is now generating $813.94 in annual dividends, yielding 7.69%. The Dividend Harvesting portfolio has a 71.43% record of finishing the week in the black since its inception, 75/105 weeks. In week 105, I added to 3...

2023-03-07 08:00:00 ET Summary We last covered SJNK and SHYG in an era of return free risk. Things have changed as the Federal Reserve went from complete complacency to utter panic on inflation. The two funds offer an 8% yield today. We look at their characteristics and pr...

Summary As in Led Zeppelin’s famous song, for me, investments in high-dividend securities represent a kind of stairway to heaven. Indeed, their steady flow of money relieves psychological pressure during times of market uncertainty and helps me experience them with greater peace ...