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According to Fidelity Investments , 57% of baby boomers (born between 1946 to 1964) who manage their own portfolios are holding more stock than the company would recommend – "largely due to the bull market of the last 10 years." Fidelity Investments says that baby boomers are over...
As predicted in previous articles, business development companies ("BDC") continue to outperform the overall markets in 2019 with an average total return of around 22%. However, there is a wide range of results, and I will briefly discuss some of the reasons why as well as compare to the retur...
Over the coming months, I will be discussing baby bonds and p referred shares for business development companies ("BDCs") that currently yield around 6% (please see the list at the end of the article for individual Bonds/shares) and much less volatile than stocks (currently yielding 10%)....
It's been over a year since the 8/9/2018 announcement that Medley Management ( MDLY ) and Medley Capital ( MCC ) were planning to merge with Sierra Income to form the 2nd largest internally managed Business Development Corporation. These are all related companies. MDLY now manages both MCC...
In this article, I'll review all the baby bonds, listed on a national exchange, sorted into several categories. There are 182 issues in our database that trade on primary exchanges. Since there is no common ETF for baby bonds only, I'll examine the two biggest fixed income ETFs with a market c...
What is a BDC? Business Development Companies ("BDCs") were created by Congress in 1980 to give investors an opportunity to invest in private small and mid-sized U.S. companies typically overlooked by banks. Most BDCs are publicly traded with a highly transparent structure subject to oversig...
In the context of constantly rising interest rates, we are starting a series of reviews to present all term preferred stocks and baby bonds with a stated maturity date in less than 10 years. These are usually issues with no more than 2-3M preferred stocks/notes and in most cases not rated by a...