The volatility and heavy drawdowns across various assets of the past few months have caused many income investors to revisit the construction of their CEF portfolios. In this article, we take a look at a number of strategies that investors can use to make their portfolios more resilient. These strategies are particularly relevant for a barbell approach to portfolio construction that allocates across a spectrum of assets.
Higher-Quality CEF Sectors
One obvious way to make a CEF portfolio more resilient is to tilt to higher credit-quality and lower volatility sectors. For instance, investment-grade, limited duration,