Dec 30, 2022
John Cole Scott, chief investment officer at Closed-End Fund Advisors -- the chairman of the Active Investment Company Alliance -- says that investors looking for the top sector bets in the new year will want to look at some of 2022's weakest areas, most notably real estate investment trusts 'REITs' and real assets....
Dec 23, 2022
John Cole Scott, chief investment officer at Closed-End Fund Advisors -- the chairman of the Active Investment Company Alliance -- takes a look back at the challenging times experienced by the closed-end fund industry this year, noting that all the news wasn't bad despite slower-than-expected growth for the industry and...
Dec 16, 2022
Stacey Morris, head of energy research at VettaFi -- part of the team involved in the Alerian Energy Infrastructure Index suite -- says that energy markets are likely to remain tight and keep dealing with inflation in 2023, both of which can be tailwinds to energy companies and especially midstream companies, but...
Dec 9, 2022
Steve O’Neill, who co-manages the closed-end fund trading strategies and oversees the closed-end fund analysts at RiverNorth, says the timing is right for closed-end fund investors looking for big discounts that will likely be shrinking right after the turn of the year as the tax harvesting process plays out. O'Neill...
Dec 2, 2022
Chris Oberbeck, chairman and chief executive officer at Saratoga Investment Corp. -- one of the industry's largest publicly traded business-development companies -- says that BDCs have been a relative sweet spot during this year's troubled times largely because they benefited from being on the front end of rate...