SPE News and Press, Special Opportunities Fund Inc From 03/18/20

"We penetrated deeper and deeper into the Heart of Darkness" - Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness At the beginning of 2020 I said that the New Year would be nothing like the last year. Things are playing out as predicted, with Coronavirus thrown in for good measure, and with devastating co...

Funds that allocate to other CEFs can be an attractive investment during periods of CEF market dislocation, providing a beta play on a normalizing market. In this article, we review different funds available to investors for such a broad-based CEF exposure. We don't think we have reached the...

Note: CEF/ETF Income Laboratory members had early access to this article. 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 upco...

The 10 year Treasury is at 1.47%. The 30 year Treasury bond is at an all time low yield of 1.92%. Just deal with it. Get over it. There ain't no yield in sight, and none is likely to show up anytime soon. The Fixed-Income markets have been flummoxed by the world's central banks and they n...

One of the factors in my estimation that will be a huge part of 2020 is the Heaven that has been created by the central banks of the world for Borrowers. We are still tracking approximately $14 trillion in negatively yielding debt and while this number is not currently at its high mark of $17 ...

We continue to live in a "Borrower's Paradise," Wonderland. That much is obvious with the 3 month Bill at 1.54%, the two year Treasury at 1.53% and the 10 year Treasury at 1.77%. Touting his bilateral trade deals and financial deregulation, at Davos, President Trump said that "we still have ...

The most problematic part of the markets at present, in my humble opinion, is the lack of yield. Basically, it just ain't nowhere to be found. We are in a "Borrower's Paradise" and a "Fixed-Income Investor's Hell." The real issue now is "Absolute Yield" and not "Relative Yield." Consider that ...

We've run through 10 different sectors or styles of investing in our year-end Marketplace Roundtable series. You can review the full list of roundtables at the end of this article in case you'd like to catch up on any specific angle. As we do every year, we conclude the series with the com...

Special Opportunities Fund (NYSE: SPE ) declares $0.094/share monthly dividend , 23.7% increase from prior dividend of $0.076. Forward yield 7.6% Payable Jan. 31; for shareholders of record Jan. 17; ex-div Jan. 16. Payable Feb. 28; for shareholders of record Feb. 18; ex-div Feb. ...

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...