SPE News and Press, Special Opportunities Fund Inc From 01/03/20

Special Opportunities Fund, Inc. (NYSE: SPE) (the “Fund”) today announced that the Fund’s Board of Directors (the “Board”) has declared the next three monthly dividends under the Fund’s managed distribution plan. Under the Fund’s managed di...

We continue to live in "Wonderland," I tell you. Alice is prating about and the Mad Hatter is hosting the tea party. The Red Queen is "off her head" and the major central banks have handed us flamingos to try to find yield while playing croquet. For American borrowers, I say, take what advan...

2019 finishes with an extra kick for investors. Part of that is the continued strong run of the market, erasing memories of last year's near bear market and extending the decade-long bull. There also are plenty of market headlines and events that have sprung over the end of the year, from Ph...

Author's note : This article was co-produced with Beer Money Arb and was originally published to CEF/ETF Income Laboratory members on November 5, 2019. ( Note : Beer Money Arb is writing in the first person.) Much analysis of closed-end funds is based around the idea of ...

It had long come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things. - Leonardo da Vinci Well, there were plenty of things this year that you could happen to, if you so elected. There were actually some hist...

Our weekly commentary goes out each Sunday evening and discusses the relevant CEF news on the week along with general market action. This report was issued on December 8 th to members of Yield Hunting. Macro Picture Last week we saw trade hopes spur the equity markets to new record ...

Special Opportunities Fund, Inc. (NYSE: SPE) (the “Fund”) today announced that the Board of Directors (the “Board”) has approved an increase to the monthly distributions to common stockholders provided under the Fund’s managed distribution plan (the “...

We continue to live in "Wonderland" I tell you. Alice is pratting about and the Mad Hatter is hosting the tea party. For American borrowers, I say, take what advantage that you can, because lower rates will mean more stock buy-backs, more refinancing of both Investment Grade and High Yield d...

Three years ago, I wrote an unusual piece called " How do you Manage a Company when the Stock is Considerably Overvalued? ", part of it dealt with the simpler case of dealing with closed-end funds that trade at a consistent premium to NAV. Quoting that portion of the article: …w...

The time tested and ageless saying "What's good for the Goose is good for the Gander" isn't working for the financial markets presently. The Goose, in this case, is the governments of the world. There will be no admission, of course, but they must certainly be delighted with the interest rate ...