TWN News and Press, Taiwan Fund Inc. From 07/15/21

The Asia-Pacific region experienced a recession in 2020 owing to the COVID-19 pandemic, with Asia-Pacific GDP contracting by an estimated 1.1%. During the second half of 2020, many Asia-Pacific economies had shown a significant recovery in economic momentum. However, recovery mome...

For the eighth month in a row, equity CEFs on average posted positive returns, rising 1.34% on a NAV basis for June. While for the fourth month running fixed income CEFs posted plus-side returns (+0.85%). Thirty-two percent of all CEFs traded at a premium to their NAV, with 31% of...

As the world convalesced from the pandemic, stocks advanced in the second quarter and earnings rebounded across sectors. With business gains broadening amid complex market risks, we think investors should lean on quality to find stocks that will perform well in a normalizing world eco...

Although global manufacturing output growth ran at one of the fastest rates seen for over a decade in June, capacity constraints continued to develop, reflecting a lack of labour and a record worsening of supplier delivery times. The shortfall of payroll numbers to new orders was espe...

As the first half of 2021 comes to an end, the global economy is recovering strongly from its sharp decline last year caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Regional economic growth differences during the first half reflect differences in the spread of the pandemic and policy responses to i...

The global economy has reached an important milestone in the second quarter of 2021, surpassing the pre-pandemic real GDP peak attained in the fourth quarter of 2019. After a 3.5% contraction in 2020, global real GDP is projected to increase 6.0% in 2021, its strongest advance since 1...

Growth in emerging Asia is likely to remain uneven amid a slow vaccine rollout, pushing out our expectations for a full recovery into 2022. The main bottleneck, in our view, is the limited supply of vaccine doses. We expect uneven economic performance across EM Asia in 2021 and ha...

For income investors, closed-end funds remain an attractive investment class that covers a variety of asset classes and promise high distributions and reasonable total returns. The closed-end funds are generally characterized by higher volatility and deeper drawdowns than the broad ma...

Emerging markets are still expected to lead the global economic recovery, with forecasted 2021 GDP growth of 6.7% vs. 6.4% for the United States. EM equities rose in May and outpaced developed market stocks. We believe that EMs will continue to show resilience with many countries ...

1 out of 23 CEF sectors positive on price and 1 out of 23 sectors positive on NAV last week. MLPs lead while convertibles lag. Limited duration is the highest-yielding CEF sector. For further details see: Weekly Closed-End Fund Roundup: May 16, 2021