WIW News and Press, Western Asset Inflation-Linked Opportunities & Income Fund From 06/05/21

For the seventh month in a row, equity closed-end funds (CEFs) on average posted positive returns, rising 1.90% on a NAV basis for May. While for the third month running fixed income CEFs posted plus-side returns (+0.86%). Thirty percent of all CEFs traded at a premium to their NA...

Several research studies have found significant liquidity risk premium in inflation-linked markets, both in developed and emerging markets. After substantial QE, G7 central banks now hold a high proportion of outstanding government debt, reducing the "free-float" in government debt ma...

Legg Mason Partners Fund Advisor, LLC announced today that certain closed-end funds have declared their distributions pursuant to their managed distribution policy for the months of June, July, August, September, October, and November 2021. The following dates apply to the distribut...

While many yields are at, or near, their historic lows, opportunity remains in select segments of emerging-market debt, triple B-rated corporate bonds and certain areas of the mortgage-securities market. A good way to approach value stocks has been to find those that are attractively ...

Emerging markets bonds historically do well in a rising interest rate environment. The U.S. is on track to potentially grow faster than China in 2021, in our view. Emerging markets economies tend to benefit from U.S. twin deficits. For further details see: Fortify Your 4...

Investors have been hearing prognostications of “runaway inflation" for more than a decade now, since the end of the global financial crisis. With central banks and governments around the world offering up unprecedented stimulus spending to combat pandemic-induced economic disr...

Investors have been hearing prognostications of “runaway inflation" for more than a decade now, since the end of the global financial crisis. With central banks and governments around the world offering up unprecedented stimulus spending to combat pandemic-induced economic disr...

The demand for money - as measured by the ratio of M2 to nominal GDP - currently stands very near to an all-time, eye-popping high. Compared to the levels which prevailed 2 years ago at this time of year, air traffic is now down only 40%, whereas at the lows of last April, air traffic...

Western Asset Inflation-Linked Opportunities & Income Fund (WIW) declares $0.033/share monthly dividend, 6.5% increase from prior dividend of $0.031.Forward yield 3.18%Payable March 31; for shareholders of record March 24; ex-div March 23.Payable April 30; for shareholders of record April...

Climate change has made the world a riskier place. Financial risks created by climate change are felt more acutely by developing economies, especially those that are not adequately prepared. As countries seek a sustainable path of recovery from the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic...