Co-produced with Stanford Chemist for the CEF/ETF Income Laboratory.
CEFs offer investors so many different options and choices. The structure of a CEF allows for shares to trade throughout the day on exchanges. Shares trade hands just like common stock of individual companies. This allows shares to trade at market prices that differ from the underlying net asset value or NAV of the fund. This leads to shares either trading below or above their actual value; leading to discounts and premiums.
There are three main portfolio strategies that the typical CEF investor will deploy.