YYY News and Press, YieldShares High Income From 12/30/19

It had long come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things. - Leonardo da Vinci Well, there were plenty of things this year that you could happen to, if you so elected. There were actually some hist...

The Invesco CEF Income Composite Portfolio ETF (NYSE: PCEF ) tracks a basket of income-focused closed-end funds. "CEFs" are actively managed investment vehicles that may employ leverage or options-based strategies to support a higher level of regular income and distribution yields. PCEF is e...

Carry Trades are More Attractive Now There are a number of reason investors might want to consider carry trade type strategies now. A carry trade is a trading strategy that involves borrowing at a relatively low interest rate and investing in an asset that provides a higher rate of return....

We continue to live in "Wonderland" I tell you. Alice is pratting about and the Mad Hatter is hosting the tea party. For American borrowers, I say, take what advantage that you can, because lower rates will mean more stock buy-backs, more refinancing of both Investment Grade and High Yield d...

Three years ago, I wrote an unusual piece called " How do you Manage a Company when the Stock is Considerably Overvalued? ", part of it dealt with the simpler case of dealing with closed-end funds that trade at a consistent premium to NAV. Quoting that portion of the article: …w...

The time tested and ageless saying "What's good for the Goose is good for the Gander" isn't working for the financial markets presently. The Goose, in this case, is the governments of the world. There will be no admission, of course, but they must certainly be delighted with the interest rate ...

It seems that the 2010-2020 era will go down in history as the "great hunt for yield." Traditional fixed-income investments like sovereign bonds pay a historically low yield (perhaps a 5,000-year low yield to be exact). This is largely because global central banks have kept rates below their...

"No, no! The adventures first, explanations take such a dreadful time." - Wonderland So you will just have to put up with it. You are going to have a dreadful time. I am going to explain something to you, and you will just have to suffer. Of course, you can always exit out of this article ...

Note : This article was initially released to members on October 23, 2019. The ETRACS 2x Leveraged ETN Snapshot presents the latest updates on the news, yields, performance and other data for the ETRACS 2x ETNs, an extremely popular suite of high-yielding vehicles for income investors. ...

New High Yielding 2X-Leveraged ETNs to Consider I am always looking for ways to diversify the 15%+ current yield portfolio where the most important constraint is to only include securities with current yields above 15%. Other constraints are the typical retail IRA account restrictions, whi...