This article was originally published on January 4th.
The closed-end fund market is commonly viewed as relatively inefficient. These inefficiencies include a strong relationship between current yield and discount, as well as big price jumps after distribution cuts. This kind of behavior lends the CEF market particularly well to a systematic investment approach, in our view.
To take advantage of these properties of the CEF market, we have developed a number of systematic investment strategies that we update regularly on the service. Each of the strategies is focused on a different property or inefficiency of