THQ News and Press, Tekla Healthcare Opportunies Fund Shares of Beneficial Interest From 10/05/21

Let’s jump on the market’s September slide and grab ourselves a sweet “double discount” on 358 totally ignored income plays—and some sweet 6%+ dividends, too. And our new income stream will pay us monthly! Going Where Other Dividend Investors Don...

August was quite the busy month for my closed-end fund portfolio, though 4 of the additions came about as swaps for better valued funds. DLY was a recent fund I covered, and is one that I swapped out from PKO, but I also added additional capital. I sold out two funds in August but...

The current slowdown was telegraphed by the bond market, and we’re now in the midst of it. There are any number of reasons to think the economy will just keep fading all the way back to the pre-COVID trend of about 2%. I don’t see any reason to believe we are near recess...

We’ve seen economic data in recent months moderate after record growth in the first half of 2021. In financials, the rise of many fintech companies and the growth of digital payments has really disrupted the traditional banking industry, creating new options for consumers. ...

The Tekla World Healthcare Fund is a sector-focused CEF investing primarily in stocks along with some exposure to debt securities. We note that the fund has underperformed sector benchmarks and comparable funds on a total return basis over the last several years. While the 8.1% di...

Falling growth does not mean the economy is contracting. It merely means that the rate of increase is slowing. How much it slows is something we can't know yet, but it is exactly what we've been expecting for months as we watched bond yields drop. One reason I think the current enviro...

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The IHS Markit Global Sector PMI™ signalled sustained strong recovery for the global economy, led by the consumer services sector. Basic Materials sector output growth eased for a second straight month to land in the last position of the eight sector groups we track in the glob...

For the ninth month in a row, equity CEFs on average posted positive returns, rising 0.18% on an NAV basis for July. While for the fifth month running, fixed-income CEFs posted plus-side returns (+0.60%). Thirty-four percent of all CEFs traded at a premium to their NAV, with 32% o...

THQ has been moving higher throughout 2021, after an already great year for the fund in 2020. The sell-off last year was brief but it was even more brief for THQ shareholders as the fund snapped back aggressively. If the Delta variant of the COVID virus sends countries back into l...