PTY News and Press, Pimco Corporate & Income Opportunity Fund From 12/28/20

Many investors like the concept of an annuity but hate the word "annuity" liking it to a four-letter word. The portfolio provides a monthly income stream that is better than what traditional annuities pay and yields about 8%. The investor can apply as little or as much maintenance...

The average PIMCO taxable leverage level has fallen for the second month in a row, a rational response to credit valuations that are nearly fully priced. PIMCO CEF discount levels have recovered significantly. If we exclude funds that have cut distributions, the average premium is qui...

The relationship between risk and return is of fundamental importance when choosing and evaluating a financial investment. For generations, investors have believed that risk and return are inseparable, convinced that the higher the returns, the greater the risks. I recently read a...

Banks have been a place that give retirees and investors a "feeling of safety." However, today, retirees are sacrificing a successful retirement as a result of very low interest rates. It's time to shift from viewing the market as saver-friendly to spender-friendly. For furt...

Most of our articles are for active investors, but this one is written with passive investors in mind. After all, not everyone wants to or has the time or interest. So, we present a portfolio for passive but conservative investors. We construct a portfolio solely based on funds or ETF...

After a huge drawdown in March, PTY has clawed back most of its losses. However, it's done so in large part due to its premium to net asset value surging to 28%. NAV remains down meaningfully from pre-pandemic levels. With the Fed's corporate bond buying effort set to slow down af...

The K shape makes a lot of sense, where the upper end kind of is bouncing, the upper part of the K and then the other side are declining. One of the effects of COVID is it's essentially accelerated the adoption of multiple technologies at a mass level that we would never have seen so ...

I started my journey into the world of finance by exploring ETFs, then one day, by chance, I discovered the existence of CEFs. CEFs offered me the tools I was looking for, a consistent monthly flow of dividends that allowed me to achieve my financial goals. Over the years, I learn...

We review October leverage figures for the PIMCO taxable suite. We find that fund borrowings decreased slightly, possibly due to already high leverage levels and tightening underlying asset valuations. We also look at the recent outperformance of funds with greater yield curve ste...

To review, Ackman's Pershing Square made a killing earlier this year, paying a tiny premium to purchase corporate credit protection. When the pandemic panic hit, the value of that protection soared. At roughly the same time Ackman in mid-March appeared on CNBC, more or less in tears about how...