PHK News and Press, Pimco High Income Fund From 07/03/20

Main Thesis The purpose of this article is to evaluate the PIMCO High Income Fund ( PHK ) as an investment option at its current market price. This is a fund I have avoided for years, despite regularly buying and recommending other PIMCO CEFs. As we move into the second half of 2020, I conti...

The last few months have seen big shifts in key drivers of CEF earnings such as short-term rates and leverage levels. In this article we take a look at one small but important part of the CEF market - auction-rate preferred securities or ARPS. These instruments have historically been used by C...

Author's note: This article was released to CEF/ETF Income Laboratory members on June 23, 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 rece...

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...

The last few months have seen large shifts across many drivers of CEF performance such as asset prices, interest rates, leverage costs, borrowing levels and others. Over the last few months, we have explored different aspects of fund earnings drivers separately across both taxable and municipa...

Author's note : This article was released to CEF/ETF Income Laboratory members on June 16, 2020. Please check latest data before investing. Chemist's Closed-End Fund Report Quantitative screens help to rapidly narrow down attractive candidates from the database of 500-plus closed-...

(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 ...

Author's note: This article was initially released on May 15, 2020 and data are from that date. Please check latest data before investing. Chemist's Closed-End Fund Report Quantitative screens help to rapidly narrow down attractive candidates from the database of 500-plus closed-end ...

From what I've seen, the primary objective of most individual investors today is income generation. Investments that promise growth of principal tend to see fewer flows than those with high dividend yields. This is tied to the rise in popularity of REITs, Business-Development-Companies, and hi...

Written by Nick Ackerman, co-produced by Stanford Chemist We are continuing to navigate a volatile environment. Most are quite aware of the risks of the distribution cuts that will be coming down the pipeline shortly. We have already begun seeing cuts from some of the funds in the CEF wo...