One market feature we like tracking is available alpha across sectors and fund families which we measure in terms of dispersion of historic returns. The greater the dispersion of returns within a given fund group, the more it pays to carefully consider your allocation. And vice-versa -- a group of cookie-cutter funds shouldn't attract as much deliberation given the investment results will look more or less the same.
In this article we check in on the PIMCO CEF suite and note that the NAV return dispersion within PIMCO CEFs has fallen substantially. We think this