Aug 26, 2022
Kenneth Burdon, an attorney in the investment management group at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, says the new "control share" statute enacted at the start of August by the state of Delaware should protect should protect investors from activist investors acting like corporate raiders trying to force a pop to net...
Aug 19, 2022
Roxanna Islam, associate director of research at VettaFi -- which developed the the S-Network Composite Closed-End Fund Index and other benchmarks for the closed-end fund space -- discusses the construction of indexes of closed-end funds and the benefits to using them over individual issues, as well as how passive...
Aug 12, 2022
Bryce Doty, senior portfolio manager at Sit Investment Associates, says that the market's troubles this year have set closed-end funds up to be in a sweet spot, able to generate additional returns that traditional mutual funds and ETFs can't get investing in the same spaces. Despite those potential benefits, Doty...
Aug 5, 2022
John Cole Scott, chief investment officer at Closed-End Fund Advisors and the chairman of the Active Investment Company Alliance, discusses some equity and fixed-income funds currently trading at premiums and compares them with similar funds priced at a discount, noting that expenses, payouts and more determine relative...