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Many income portfolios are heavily overweight corporate risk whether through equity or credit-linked securities. Consumer-facing risk offers diversification and good value. We like consumer-linked securities in this environment due to low household leverage, strong wage growth and hig...
We review CEF market valuation and performance through the third week of March and highlight recent market action. The CEF market was able to put up a rally this week, however, it remains down for the month. We don't expect the market to stage a full recovery. We discuss some of t...
We review CEF market valuation and performance through the second week of March and highlight recent market action. All CEF sectors were down this week with the majority of sectors now at double-digit negative returns for the year. We discuss the different flavors of distribution ...
We review CEF market valuation and performance through the first week of March and highlight recent market action. The CEF market was pretty flat this week as discount strength offset broadbased NAV weakness. Recently launched funds have continued to underperform their sectors - l...
We review CEF market valuation and performance through the fourth week of February and highlight recent market action. CEF NAVs held up well this week outside of EM sectors and in line with broader markets, however, discounts widened in aggregate due to the spike in volatility. On...
Return of capital is often misunderstood as always being a bad thing when showing up in the tax character of distribution. However, there is a significant benefit to return of capital for those held in a taxable account as a way to defer tax obligations. These can be deferred pote...
As the world reels from the crisis, the blowback is rippling across the world economy and markets. The current risk premia analysis implicitly recommends managing expectations down for GMI and other global multi-asset-class portfolios. The mean reversion factor is estimated as the...
Legg Mason Partners Fund Advisor, LLC announced today that certain closed end funds have declared their distributions for the months of March, April and May 2022. The following dates apply to the distribution schedule below: This press release is not for tax reporting purposes b...
We review CEF market valuation and performance through the first week of February and highlight recent market action. CEFs started the week on a strong foot however performance petered out quickly and discounts finished flat while the average sector saw a small rise in the NAV. We...
The expected risk premium for the Global Market Index edged down in January from the previous month’s estimate. Using short-term momentum and medium-term mean-reversion market factors to adjust the forecast reduces GMI’s ex-ante risk premium to an annualized 5.4%. Th...
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2024-07-05 13:16:00 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...
2024-05-25 02:38:00 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...
Western Asset Diversified Income Fund (NYSE: WDI) today announced the financial position of the Fund as of March 31, 2024. This financial data is unaudited. The Fund files its semi-annual and annual reports with the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”), as well as it...