SPE News and Press, Special Opportunities Fund Inc From 04/14/19

You would think that Britain could reach a decision. You would think that the European Union could reach a decision. Obviously, both incorrect assumptions. It reminds me of Greece and then Italy just keep kicking the can along. The end-date was March 29 and then extended until April 12. Now ...

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 ...

Special Opportunities Fund, Inc. (NYSE: SPE) (the “Fund”) today announced that the Board of Directors (the “Board”) has approved the adoption of a managed distribution plan whereby the Fund intends, beginning in April 2019, to make monthly distributions to common ...

This report was co-produced with acamus for Yield Hunting's Marketplace Service. It was released March 4th to members. Special Opportunities Fund ( SPE ) is a unique animal - we call it a hedge fund in a closed-end fund. Our thesis is that the fund provides low correlation to equity retu...

As you probably know, my beat is income. And in my newsletter, Peak Income , I specialize in finding cash-generating investments that are a little off the beaten path. Well, one of my favorite high-yield fishing ponds - closed-end funds ("CEFs") - is looking attractive again, and I've ...

This type of article appears to have been popular with many investors on Seeking Alpha due to the success of my last article covering this topic, so I wanted to revisit and get an updated look at the funds that show up this time. When looking for the next potential investment, it's a good ...

This article was first released to subscribers 2 weeks ago. 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 recently concluded or upcoming corpora...

(Note: As we didn't have the CEF Roundup last week due to my data guy being suddenly unavailable, this piece will cover the last two weeks of events. Hence, all statistics are being compared to data from two weeks ago.) The Weekly Closed-End Fund Roundup will be put out at the start of...

Special Opportunities Fund (NYSE: SPE ) announced conversion price of $15.41/share for each share of convertible preferred stock as the company declared year-end dividend of $1.45. More news on: Special Opportunities Fund, Financial stocks news, Read more ...

"It is what you don't expect... that most needs looking for." - Neal Stephenson, Anthem The main issue here is will credit get cut off because of the inversion? A year ago, six months ago, there were all kinds of headlines and stories that we were heading for a 10-year Treasury yield of 4....