PMX News and Press, PIMCO Municipal Income Fund III of Beneficial Interest From 04/24/19

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Video Transcript Municipal Bonds Performance And Inflows I think it's fortunate that we're talking about municipal bonds on the heels of a really historic first quarter of 2019 in terms of inflows into the municipal space, strong performance, and the fact that the Federal Reserve rece...

Another Tax Day has come and gone. This was the first year that Americans paid taxes under President Donald Trump’s tax cuts. And yet many filers -especially those living in high income tax states such as New York, California and New Jersey - saw their payments rise significantly due to...

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I was recently doing a one-year NAV performance screen on all muni bond closed-end funds. Here are the top ten performers sorted by one-year NAV return: Source: cefanalyzer 4/12/2019 Note that five out of the top ten NAV performers are PIMCO funds. Two of the funds ([[PNI]], [[PCK]]) are ...

By Sheila Amoroso, Senior Vice President, Director, Municipal Bond Department, Franklin Templeton Fixed Income Group®; Christopher Sperry, CFA, Vice President, Portfolio Manager, Franklin Templeton Fixed Income Group® Many investors flock to municipal bonds because of potential ...

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Photo Source: REUTERS/Brendan McDermid. A trader watches U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell on a screen during a news conference following the two-day Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) policy meeting, on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York, U.S., March 20...

April distributions announcements came out this week and the big headline has to do with PIMCO's widespread and in some cases significant chops to payouts. Allianz, the parent company of PIMCO, also cut the distribution on their two flagship convertible income funds. For April, we saw a ...