Aug 28, 2020
Eric Boughton, chief analyst at Matisse Capital -- a firm that manages portfolios of closed-end funds -- says that outsized discounts make most closed-end funds attractive potential investments now, noting in this interview from 'Money Life with Chuck Jaffe' that nearly every type of fund represents assets currently on...
Aug 21, 2020
On today's edition of the NAVigator, Lawrence Holzenthaler, investment analyst at Symphony Nuveen, discusses high-yield investing in a low-rate environment, noting that equity markets are more optimistic than the broad corporate credit market and how average credit investors see risk very differently right now...
Aug 14, 2020
Long-time financial journalist John Waggoner explains why he has always gravitated towards closed-end funds even as investors and the news media often ignored them, and then explains how and why closed-end funds can provide advantages that he thinks most investors miss by focusing on closed-end funds,...
Aug 7, 2020
Tom Roseen, head of research services at Lipper Refinitiv, says that closed-end fund discounts currently stand at an average of 8.7 percent, significantly wider than the 5.65 percent of the past but significantly improved from February and March as closed-end funds were hammered during the pre-pandemic market downturn....