Photo Source: REUTERS/Jeenah Moon. Confetti flies around the ball and countdown clock in Times Square in the Manhattan borough of New York, U.S., January 1, 2020.
For the month, 95% of all closed-end funds (BATS:CEFS) posted net asset value ((NAV))-based returns in the black, with 94% of equity CEFs and 96% of fixed income CEFs chalking up returns in the plus column. For the fourth month in a row, Lipper’s world equity CEFs macro-group (+3.71%) outperformed its two equity-based brethren: domestic equity CEFs (+3.56%) and mixed-asset CEFs (+2.31%). For the first month in