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Summary 2022 has been a volatile year for credit markets, but a closer inspection highlights some striking differences. Yields on EM HY reached much higher levels (close to 14% at its peak), and spiked much faster, than their Euro and US equivalents, which peaked at around 9% in Q4 2022...
Summary Only funds with yields over 8%, coverage higher than 90% and trading at a discount are considered. Top lists of discount, yield, DxY and DxYxZ are given. The top DxY funds are PGZ, HFRO, and EMD. Author’s note: This article was released to CEF/ETF Income L...
Summary Western Asset High Income Opportunity Fund is a fixed income CEF. The fund focuses on U.S. high yield and has a middle of the road credit build, with no excessive risk taken via CCC credits. The fund however displays a return profile very similar to the top HY CEF cohort, na...
Summary Only funds with coverage >100% are considered. Top lists of discount, yield, DxY and DxYxZ are given. Top DxYxZ funds are HFRO, ARDC and HYB. "Quality" Closed-End Fund Report Quantitative screens help to rapidly narrow down attractive candidates from the databas...
Summary As central banks battled inflation, interest rates soared and recession fears mounted. Now, central banks must slow their pace of tightening and carefully calibrate a soft landing. We address the challenges of a global slowdown, the benefits of higher yields and strategies f...
Summary Emerging market and high yield bond markets have improved in recent weeks, indicated by both aggregate and issuer-specific developments. There has been a general improvement in risk appetite during the last month, based on expectations of a less-severe upward trajectory for poli...
Bonds are finally an intriguing place for retirement income. Safe Treasuries still pay a respectable (by their standards, at least) 3.7%. But we contrarians can do better. Today we’re going to discuss three bond funds ready to rally. They pay 8.6%, 9.1% and—get this ...
Legg Mason Partners Fund Advisor, LLC announced today that certain closed end funds have declared their distributions for the months of December 2022, January and February 2023. The following dates apply to the distribution schedule below: This press release is not for tax repor...
Summary Rate hikes and tighter financial conditions drove fixed-income returns lower in 2022. The broad repricing of bonds and the higher starting yields we have now can help insulate investors from further losses. If we look at international bonds, this is probably the first ...
Summary Year-to-date, allocations to floating rate notes have resulted in a more than 20% performance differential compared to U.S. 10-Year notes. Rising rates explain why owning the same securities as the Agg but reducing the maturity profile (1–5 years) led to losses that...
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Western Asset High Income Opportunity Fund Inc. (the “Fund”) (NYSE: HIO) announced today the results of the votes cast at the Fund’s annual meeting of stockholders held April 12, 2024. Paolo M. Cucchi and Jane E. Trust were elected as Class II Directors of the Fund by hol...
2024-03-07 05:00:28 ET Closed-end funds sometimes give us hard choices … like do we want high dividends or really high dividends? Okay, so maybe I’m being a little flippant here—but not much! A reader got me thinking about this recently, with a quest...
Effective March 1, 2024, the named portfolio management team responsible for the day-to-day oversight of the Fund is as follows: Michael Buchanan Walter Kilcullen Christopher Kilpatrick Data and commentary provided in this press release are for informational purposes only. Fra...