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The last few months have seen big shifts in key drivers of CEF earnings such as short-term rates and leverage levels. In this article we take a look at one small but important part of the CEF market - auction-rate preferred securities or ARPS. These instruments have historically been used by C...
I was a child in the Sixties when many of my friends, who were some years older than me, were seized by "Beatlemania." They listened non-stop to 45 rpm records of Beatles' hits using portable record players purchased by their parents. Some of them stopped eating, stopped sleeping; all they wan...
PMI Composite FLASH Markit’s Composite Purchasing Managers Index has continued to recover, rising to 46.8 in mid-June from 37.0 in May. This is well off the low of 27 set in April. While it still shows the economy is in contraction (below 50.0), there is clearly a slowdown in the ra...
Author's note : This article was released to CEF/ETF Income Laboratory members on June 16, 2020. Please check latest data before investing. Chemist's Closed-End Fund Report Quantitative screens help to rapidly narrow down attractive candidates from the database of 500-plus closed-...
Article Thesis The Fed has made it clear that interest rates will remain extremely low for years, and due to the high government debt levels in the US, it seems possible that interest rates will remain at a low level for much more than a couple of years. This has a range of implications fo...
Co-produced with Treading Softly Here at High Dividend Opportunities, we have discussed over the years multiple aspects of our Income Method , s o much so that some of you may have started to become experts in our methodology yourselves. Locating income-producing securities, evalua...
The Core Portfolio This is meant to be an assessment of our portfolio strategy, looking at what went right and what went wrong in building an income portfolio of closed-end funds ("CEFs"). The strategy is meant to provide yield in a yield-less world, hence the name of our Marketplace se...
(This report was issued to members of Yield Hunting on May 26th.) Branding matters. Think of this. In the 1980s, PepsiCo ( PEP ) began running commercials with The Pepsi Challenge, where people would try two colas as a taste test and select which they liked better. Not surprisingly, Pepsi ...
Going Where the Road Takes You I was ten in 1970 when Kris Kristofferson released his first album, “Kristofferson.” At that time, I was more accustomed to listening to my mom’s favorites: Italian artists from the Sixties and some singles from Sinatra, Edith Piaf and N...
In this article, we will construct three versions of a fund portfolio, from simple to a bit complex: A simple buy-and-hold ETF portfolio, highly diversified, generating a yield of 4% plus. A somewhat aggressive buy-and-hold fund portfolio, with a mix of dividend ETFs and some CEF funds. ...
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2024-07-24 05:00:52 ET Who is paying a 27% premium for Guggenheim Strategic Opportunity Fund (GOF) ? Don’t get me wrong. GOF is a fine fund, delivering 9.8% yearly returns on its net asset value (NAV) since inception. But we are talking nosebleed valuation territo...
2024-07-24 01:38:00 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...
2024-07-13 22:54:00 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...