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I find it fascinating to reflect on how much the interest in Closed-End Fund investing has grown in the seven years I’ve been engaged with Seeking Alpha. I watched the analysis and commentary on the subject grow from an occasional article by a small handful of contributors to a steady...

The 10 year Treasury is at 1.47%. The 30 year Treasury bond is at an all time low yield of 1.92%. Just deal with it. Get over it. There ain't no yield in sight, and none is likely to show up anytime soon. The Fixed-Income markets have been flummoxed by the world's central banks and they n...

Strategy for a Sustainable, Inflation-Adjusted 7% Income As any observer of markets is aware, income has become expensive. One of my favorite wrappers for income investing - Closed-End Funds or CEFs - is a particularly clear example of this market trend. In a way this phenomenon should not...

One of the factors in my estimation that will be a huge part of 2020 is the Heaven that has been created by the central banks of the world for Borrowers. We are still tracking approximately $14 trillion in negatively yielding debt and while this number is not currently at its high mark of $17 ...

We continue to live in a "Borrower's Paradise," Wonderland. That much is obvious with the 3 month Bill at 1.54%, the two year Treasury at 1.53% and the 10 year Treasury at 1.77%. Touting his bilateral trade deals and financial deregulation, at Davos, President Trump said that "we still have ...

Many investors here on Seeking Alpha have found a niche trying to find closed-end funds with deep discounts to their net asset values. For investors who may be tired of doing that, Amplify has a solution for you. The Amplify High Income ETF ( YYY ) is a portfolio of 30 closed-end funds (CEFs...

The most problematic part of the markets at present, in my humble opinion, is the lack of yield. Basically, it just ain't nowhere to be found. We are in a "Borrower's Paradise" and a "Fixed-Income Investor's Hell." The real issue now is "Absolute Yield" and not "Relative Yield." Consider that ...

We continue to live in "Wonderland," I tell you. Alice is prating about and the Mad Hatter is hosting the tea party. The Red Queen is "off her head" and the major central banks have handed us flamingos to try to find yield while playing croquet. For American borrowers, I say, take what advan...

Author's note : This article was co-produced with Beer Money Arb and was originally published to CEF/ETF Income Laboratory members on November 5, 2019. ( Note : Beer Money Arb is writing in the first person.) Much analysis of closed-end funds is based around the idea of ...

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...