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When facing a rising-rate environment, investors who can’t stomach too much risk should limit - but not eliminate - duration, or sensitivity to interest-rate changes. Investors shouldn’t just shorten their portfolio’s duration; they should get a chunk of it from a...
As we move into Q4, markets are in a tug-of-war involving various good news vs. bad news debates. COVID-19 cases are declining, but central banks are considering tightening monetary policy. Earnings growth is strong, but year-over-year comparisons will become tougher. Employment stati...
The strong economic and market trends of the first half of 2021 wavered during the third quarter. The coronavirus delta variant caught up with the US at the height of the summer, just as vaccinations slowed and concerns grew that inflation might flare and persist. Even so, equity mark...
Western Asset High Yield Defined Opportunity Fund Inc. (NYSE: HYI) today announced the financial position of the Fund as of August 31, 2021. Footnotes: (a) NAVs are calculated as of the close of business on the last business day in the periods indicated above. (b) For the quarte...
Risk-adjusted performance continued to rise in September for the Global Market Index (GMI), an unmanaged, market-value-weighted portfolio that holds all the major asset classes (except cash). GMI’s 0.97 Sharpe ratio is close to the highest levels reached in recent history. ...
Global Market Index is useful as a starting point for research on asset allocation and portfolio design. Predictions for the market components are subject to greater uncertainty compared with aggregating forecasts, a process that may cancel out some of the errors through time. Com...
Global markets suffered their broadest retreat in a year during September. The bullish exception: commodities, which delivered a solid gain last month. Notably, US stocks and bonds lost ground, giving support to concerns that the historical diversification benefits of pairing the two ...
August was quite the busy month for my closed-end fund portfolio, though 4 of the additions came about as swaps for better valued funds. DLY was a recent fund I covered, and is one that I swapped out from PKO, but I also added additional capital. I sold out two funds in August but...
Risk-adjusted performance continued to rise in August for the Global Market Index. Sharpe ratios in global markets generally are elevated. GMI represents a theoretical benchmark for the “optimal” portfolio. For further details see: Major Asset Classes | Aug...
The expected risk premium for the Global Market (GMI) ticked up in August, reaching an annualized 6.1%, slightly above the previous month’s estimate. Despite the comparatively high GMI forecast, the current estimate remains well below the index’s realized risk premium fo...
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2024-07-23 09:00:23 ET Western Asset High Yield Defined Opportunity Fund Inc (HYI) declaring a stock dividend of $0.095 per share on Ex-Date : July 24, 2024. Shareholders on record as of July 24, 2024 are eligible for the dividend. The payment date is scheduled for August 01, 2024, ...
2024-07-12 05:14:00 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...
2024-05-21 09:00:21 ET Western Asset High Yield Defined Opportunity Fund Inc (HYI) declaring a stock dividend of $0.095 per share on Ex-Date : May 22, 2024. Shareholders on record as of May 23, 2024 are eligible for the dividend. The payment date is scheduled for June 03, 2024, and ...