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As the year is starting to wind down, I wanted to take an updated look at what distribution changes happened throughout the year. We had previously done this for a more specific time frame; the time frame of the pandemic to shortly after in June. Again, I'm surprised at how resili...

The United States and Taiwan signed an agreement to establish annual economic talks after concluding talks in Washington.The future discussions will alternate between the U.S. and Taipei, with strategic cooperation on the semiconductor industry established as a mutual priority. Further c...

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Disaggregating international exposure allows investors to assign a different weight to specific countries relative to their respective weighting within a broad market-cap weighted index. Interestingly, the majority of the countries we anticipate performing well are in Asia, notably So...

Written by Nick Ackerman, co-produced by Stanford Chemist Generally, closed-end funds are sought after for their high distributions. These are typically paid on a monthly or quarterly frequency. Monthly paying funds are especially appealing to income-oriented investors. However, within t...

By Bill Witherell, Ph.D. Consider a place that has had only 476 Covid-19 cases and just seven deaths. This sounds like a rural town in the US with a small population and good access to medical care. Actually, it is Taiwan, a small country in Asia with a very dense population of 23.6 millio...

P hoto Source: REUTERS/Kim Hong-Ji. Gold bars are pictured on display at Korea Gold Exchange in Seoul, South Korea, August 6, 2020. For the month, 92% of all closed-end funds ("CEFs") posted net-asset-value ("NAV")-based returns in the black, with 84% of equity CEFs and 98% of fixed income ...

CEFA : Welcome to CEF Insights, your source for closed-end fund information and education brought to you by the Closed-End Fund Association. My name is Diane Merritt. Today, we are joined by Corrina Xiao, Portfolio Manager with Allianz Global Investors. We're happy to have you with us today...

Photo Source: Tasos Katopodis/Pool via REUTERS. Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell, wearing a face mask, testifies before the House of Representatives Financial Services Committee during a hearing on oversight of the Treasury Department and Federal Reserve response to the outbreak of the ...

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...