UTG News and Press, Reaves Utility Income Fund of Beneficial Interest From 03/12/21

For US Treasury investors, the starting place for inflation today is tough-there's not enough inflation-adjusted yield to cushion the pain. Treasury inflation-protected securities and similar inflation-linked bonds globally will outperform comparable-maturity Treasury bonds if inflati...

Since around 2007, the number of closed-end funds available on the market has been shrinking. These often income-oriented investment vehicles are now down to around 488 funds, and this number is about to go lower. Overall, this isn't a bad thing as it has primarily been coming fro...

According to a well-known English finance professor, Elroy Dimson, “risk means more things can happen than will happen.”. Uncertainty does not allow us to predict in advance the probabilities of an event, nor the potential results associated with it. In financial mar...

Natural gas will remain part of the power mix for years to come to help keep electric grids reliable and power affordable as they transition to cleaner forms of energy, the CEOs of Duke Energy (DUK) and Xcel Energy (XEL) told the CERAWeek by IHS Markit conference today.Duke's Lynn Good assert...

The Income Factory® philosophy has gained wide acceptance here on Seeking Alpha and elsewhere, but there was lots of resistance when I first introduced the concept about a decade ago. The idea that "income drives wealth" is one that goes back centuries in economics and literature...

Looking at addressing a question that comes up frequently about if a closed-end fund is right for you. Just because you have a high income portfolio, doesn't mean you can't achieve growth too through reinvestment. While the general consensus is that a younger person is better off ...

Despite the S&P 500 being up an impressive 18% in 2020, the utilities sector did not take part in the rally finishing the year flat. Reaves' John Bartlett has spent nearly 30 years closely tracking Utilities names through every type of investing environment. With a blue wave s...

Natural gas (NG1:COM) leads an across-the-board surge in energy prices, with March nat gas futures +6.3% to $3.096/MMBtu, while March gasoline +4.1% to $1.7623/gal and March heating oil +2.3% to $1.8127/gal.The surge in prices comes as the Southwest Power Pool group of utilities covering 14 s...

Risk assets continued their historic run last week with EM equities and commodities leading the way. Bonds sold off as the 10-year Treasury note yield broke above 1.20% for the first time since the lows last spring. The 10-year TIPS yield closed the week at 1.02%, near the all-tim...

Markets remained quite lofty, though later in January we got some volatility to spice things up. Overall, still holding a considerable cash position to take advantage of any market correction when it comes. The broader indexes were heading higher for most of the month before pulli...