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Economic growth is returning to almost every country in the world, and almost all commodity prices are rising. The thing to worry about is the direction of fiscal policy, which will almost certainly bring us higher taxes, increased regulatory burdens, and more expensive energy. Fo...
It is my opinion, when considering both the inflation component and the credit risk component, that most bonds are not providing any real value currently. One strategy that should be considered is not buying any more bonds at present. The second is to take a careful look at your portf...
Risk assets have compressed in yield against Treasuries, so that any meaningful yield of anything has gotten wrung out of the markets. For the first time ever, yields in the High Yield markets are now less than 4.00%. In other words, you are getting paid about nothing for credit risk....
Returns in the US treasury market have gotten off to a bad start. Long-term US treasuries are already down over 5% YTD, which would be only the second time in the last ten years that the asset class started off the year so poorly. While treasuries have been weak, not all areas of ...
Our study showed that a COVID-19 vaccine would be the single most important factor in giving people confidence to resume normal spending habits. School reopenings should provide a further impulse to the recovery. Fiscal and monetary policy have already provided enormous stimulus, ...
The way investors measure risk in the bond market is by looking at the spread of riskier bonds to U.S. Treasuries. The Fed's extreme intervention in financial markets is why a stock market correction, though overdue, is not coming. Companies and their stock prices can and do devia...
The world's negative-yielding debt instruments, great for governments and some corporations, are a "Fixed-Income Investor's Hell" for a whole slew of investors. Bond yields are causing many of the institutional clients and individual clients difficulties. However, you can find funds w...
High Income Securities Fund (“the Fund”) (NYSE: PCF) announced today that its rights offering to purchase up to an aggregate of 5,565,006 additional shares of its common stock expired on January 29, 2021. The Fund received subscription requests for a total of 3,858,789 sha...
2021 will be a challenging year for bond investors, as we are starting off with low interest rates and rising inflation, explains Marvin Appel of Signalert Asset Management. As a result, I believe the most productive strategy for 2021 will be to search for higher yields in the form of...
The convertibles sector had a tremendous 2020 on the back of a number of tailwinds such as outperformance in its sector tilts, high volatility and falling rates. We take a look at the different options for investors in the sector across both open-end and closed-end funds. Interest...
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High Income Securities Fund (“the Fund”) (NYSE: PCF) announced today that its Board of Trustees has authorized the issuance of one non-transferable right for each share of the Fund held on July 8, 2024 to purchase one additional share of the Fund at the greater of (1) 97% of the vol...
High Income Securities Fund (NYSE: PCF) (the “Fund”) today announced that the Fund’s Board of Trustees (the “Board”) has declared the next three monthly distributions under the Fund’s managed distribution plan. Under the Fund’s managed distribu...
High Income Securities Fund (NYSE: PCF) announced today that the record date for the previously announced monthly distribution of $0.0622 per share payable on June 28, 2024 has been changed from June 19, 2024 to June 18, 2024. View source version on businesswire.com: https://www...