PPR News and Press, Voya Prime Rate Trust From 02/01/21

Voya Prime Rate Trust (NYSE: PPR), a diversified closed-end management investment company listed on the New York Stock Exchange, declared a monthly dividend of 1.21 cents per share on January 29, 2021, payable on February 23, 2021 to shareholders of record on February 10, 2021. This rep...

RIV has a conversion feature that will allow shareholders to vote this year on whether to convert to open-end or stay closed-end. Due to the fund's slight premium and high managed distribution rate, I don't believe there will be an enthusiasm to convert. The fund adjusted its mana...

Junk bond sales are poised to break records for January, with month-to-date sales at ~$1.2B below the current January record of $37B.There's still a week to go in the month and plenty of deals in the offing.Yields on CCC debt, the riskiest level of high-yield bonds, touched an all-time low on...

Weekly net flows into funds and ETFs are showing some early movement toward groups that may benefit from an improving economy, increasing demand, rising interest rates, and possibly contained inflationary pressures, according to Tom Roseen, head of Research Services at Refinitiv Lipper.For th...

16 out of 23 CEF sectors positive on price and 14 out of 23 sectors positive on NAV last week. MLPs lead while preferreds/real estate lags. PPR tender results: decent pro-ration factor with quick +8% gain on tendered shares in our Tactical Income-100 portfolio. For further d...

The Board of Trustees (the “Board”) has determined that it is in the best interest of Voya Prime Rate Trust (“the Fund”) (NYSE: PPR) and its shareholders to repay the Fund’s outstanding borrowings under the Fund’s line of credit (the “LOC...

For the fund-flows week ended Jan. 13, some investors veered to fixed-income securities that were either tied to inflation or adjust for rising yields, while others remained in search of yield, said Tom Roseen, head of Research Services at Refinitiv Lipper.For the flows week, investors inject...

December was another good month for CEFs with some discount tightening and NAV growth. The Core Portfolio was up over 1% with the NAV up 1.8%. The January Effect could bring discounts to an expensive level if the recent trends continue. At that point we would want to start reducing CE...

For the broader indexes, December continued along its upward momentum. Overall, the market seems to be quite lofty at these levels, so keeping a cash allocation could be appropriate. The overall buying for the month might seem like a lot of positions, but was on the lighter side a...

17 out of 23 CEF sectors positive on price and 19 out of 23 sectors positive on NAV last week. PPR tender offer expires on January 4, 2021, and our Tactical Income-100 portfolio is tendering all shares. NHF's extended tender offer also expired. For further details see: W...