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Discounts have been widening in the CEF space as volatility has been kicking up. The widening discounts have been creating more opportunities, but headwinds exist. We screen for several different metrics that bring up funds worth exploring further. For further details see: ...
BlackRock today announced the release of quarterly fund commentaries for BlackRock Innovation and Growth Trust (NYSE: BIGZ), BlackRock Science and Technology Trust II (NYSE: BSTZ), BlackRock Health Sciences Trust II (NYSE: BMEZ), BlackRock Capital Allocation Trust (NYSE: BCAT), and Blac...
There’s nothing we closed-end fund investors love more than finding a smartly run fund in an unfairly beaten-down sector. This hands us a nice discount (of course!), plus a much bigger dividend, because yields and prices move in opposite directions. In fact, with CEFs, we...
BlackRock Advisors, LLC (“BlackRock”) will host a conference call on Thursday, April 14th at 10:30am ET featuring portfolio managers Rick Rieder, Tony Kim and Erin Xie. BlackRock closed-end funds covered: BlackRock Capital Allocation Trust (NYSE: BCAT, CUSIP:...
Today, we are looking at how to tell if a fund might be paying a sustainable distribution or not. We use several examples covering both fixed-income and equity funds to help highlight their differences. Overall, fixed-income funds are more straightforward to analyze than equity fu...
There are several reasons why closed-end funds can pay higher distribution yields to investors. Closed-end funds can invest in more complex investments and include leverage or other strategies to help generate higher yields. These more stable payouts from these funds can be a mass...
Return of capital is often misunderstood as always being a bad thing when showing up in the tax character of distribution. However, there is a significant benefit to return of capital for those held in a taxable account as a way to defer tax obligations. These can be deferred pote...
It has been a rocky start to a new year, but with ~11 months to go, just about anything could happen. It is impossible to know if the bottom is in, but the last two trading days of the month provided some optimism. If an investor was sitting on some cash, January seemed like a fin...
BMEZ was one of the best performing funds in 2020, the year it launched as it hit the market at the right time. This success did not carry over to 2021, as it was one of the seemingly few funds to produce losses for the year. It has been an even tougher go as we enter into 2022, a...
BlackRock today announced the release of quarterly fund commentaries for BlackRock Innovation and Growth Trust (NYSE: BIGZ), BlackRock Science and Technology Trust II (NYSE: BSTZ), BlackRock Health Sciences Trust II (NYSE: BMEZ), BlackRock Capital Allocation Trust (NYSE: BCAT), and Blac...
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2024-07-12 05:00:04 ET With the market at nosebleed valuations, where can we look for value and yield? Let’s turn to our favorite three-letter acronym. C-E-Fs. As usual we have a handful of closed-end funds (CEFs) getting no love from Wall Street. This is perfect for ...
2024-07-10 03:14:00 ET Stock Traders Daily has produced this trading report using a proprietary method. This methodology seeks to optimize the entry and exit levels to maximize results and limit risk, and it is also applied to Index options, ETFs, and futures for our subscribers. This...
The BlackRock closed-end funds (the “Funds”) listed below announced today the results of the Quarterly Measurement Period (as defined below) under their previously announced discount management programs (the “Programs”). Funds with a Trigger Event (as defined below) at...