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The NAVigator

Sep 30, 2022

John Cole Scott, chief investment officer at Closed-End Fund Advisors -- the chairman of the Active Investment Company Alliance -- discusses and compares floating-rate and senior loan funds with preferred-securities funds, noting that floating-rate funds are a tool for combating high and rising interest rates, while...


Sep 23, 2022

Mark Scalzo, chief investment officer at Validus Growth Investors -- portfolio manager for the newly listed Destra Multi-Alternative Fund -- discusses the outlook for alternative investing, the process his fund went through in changing its status and becoming one of the few new listings on the New York Stock Exchange...


Sep 16, 2022

Kyle Brown, president and chief investment officer at Trinity Capital, explains how the company's structure helps to support double-digit yields and makes them more secure than other high-yield investments, but also discusses the business development company's exceptionally high yield relative to the rising...


Sep 9, 2022

Cheryl Pate, senior portfolio manager for the Angel Oak Financial Strategies Income Term Trust, says that community banks stand out as a part of the financial sector that is poised to benefit into 2023, as banks will likely see the bulk of continuing rate hikes fall directly to the bottom line. Even with that...


Sep 2, 2022

Josh Duitz, deputy head of global equities at Abrdn -- portfolio manager for Abrdn Global Infrastructure Income and two of the firm's dynamic dividend funds -- says that the macro drivers for infrastructure -- globalization, upgrades and repairs, urbanization and increased demand -- coupled with current inflationary...