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Publicly-held real estate securities can be used to establish the equivalent of a long term real estate portfolio. This approach is intended to take on the characteristics of real estate investing as opposed to focusing on market timing and an agility to take quick profit. At pres...

In each of the past three calendar years, small cap stocks in the U.S. have lagged their large cap counterparts by roughly 6-7% per year. This trend accelerated even more dramatically in the first quarter of 2020 as small caps underperformed large caps by over 10%-a magnitude larger than any q...

Written by Nick Ackerman, co-produced by Stanford Chemist Dividend cuts for closed-end funds were something that we certainly anticipated throughout this latest sell-off. Not only is that playing a role in CEFs, but will in ETFs and individual stocks just the same. This might be more pre...

Author's note: This article was released to members on June 1, 2020. Please check latest data before investing. 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...

We’ve been in such a raging bear market (the fastest decline of the S&P 500 ( SPY ) ever) that there has been barely any time to sit back and let everything sink in. Every day there are opportunities to evaluate and new threats emerge. But over the past several days I’v...

Author's note : This article was released to CEF/ETF Income Laboratory members on December 17, 2019. Chemist's Closed-End Fund Report Quantitative screens help to rapidly narrow down attractive candidates from the database of 500-plus closed-end funds [CEFs] for further due diligence ...

Picture Source: REUTERS/Brendan McDermid. A screen displays the Dow Jones Industrial Average shortly after the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange, November 18, 2019. For the first month in seven, domestic taxable bond CEFs jumped to the top of the leaderboard, posting a 0.44% retu...

Everyone loves a dividend increase. Right? After all, it puts more money into the hands of investors and who doesn’t like more money? But in doing so, management is foregoing using capital that could repurchase shares, pay down debt, or invest in future growth opportunities. Is raising a ...

Everyone loves a dividend increase. Right? After all, it puts more money into the hands of investors and who doesn’t like more money? But in doing so, management is foregoing using capital that could repurchase shares, pay down debt, or invest in future growth opportunities. Is raising a ...

Note: This article was released to members on October 19, 2019. Chemist's Closed-End Fund Report Quantitative screens help to rapidly narrow down attractive candidates from the database of 500-plus closed-end funds [CEFs] for further due diligence and investigation. Previous editions of ...