By Douglas Albo : With the markets entering a seasonally more difficult period and the overseas markets looking more and more unsettled, I thought this might be a good time to review the high yielding global option-income (also called covered-call or buy/write) closed-end funds (CEFs) to see which
By Epsilon : I am a value investor and, when investing in stocks, I often seek out companies that appear undervalued. Closed-end fund (CEF) values can often be found in a similar fashion. The net asset value (NAV) of a CEF is the total value of all the securities in the fund divided by the number
… 78%, bcf4.02%,csq 2.77%, psf 3.58%, utf 4.46%,dhg 6.02%,etg 5.87%, etb 4.98%, exg 2.26%, etw 4.69%, fsd 7.19%, fmy 5.68% fgb3.00%,ffc 5.22%, gab 1.24%, htr 2.14%,iga 2.47%, nfj 3.87 …
I got hit hard with dividend cuts this week. Looking for some 9% ers to keep me afloat. Do you have any good ideas, I need the income. Thanks Iris
By Douglas Albo : I have been warning investors in my articles about high yielding equity Closed-End funds (CEFs) that have excessively high Net Asset Value (NAV) yields and in fact, over the past year, many of these funds have been forced to cut their distributions. The most recent of which was ...
… Sector Premium 69.2% 17.4% 13.4% ETW Eaton Vance Tx-Mgd Glbl Buy-Write Opp ..... 82.4 ZF 84 vs 86.3 ASG 86 vs 90.0 ETW 44.5 vs 96.5 JLA 72 vs 86.1 JPZ 70 ..... connect [major numb3r difference] with ETW and JLA. I re-checked my numb3rs but …
… ended earnings for three of their CEFs: EOI , ETY and ETB . Eaton Vance also released 9-month reports for the following CEFs: ETW , ETB , EOS , ETV , and ETJ . The overall results are mixed, but there are more poor results than good to report for these CEFs …
By George Spritzer : In another article published today , I describe two ways of capturing “alpha” using closed-end funds: 1) Discount Capture 2) Dividend Yield Enhancement Discount capture is primarily used by active swing traders with a shorter term horizon. With dividend yield enhancement, you
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By Douglas Albo : There has been a lot of controversy over the Eaton Vance Tax-Managed Global Diversified Equity Income fund ( EXG ), perhaps because it is the second largest equity closed-end fund (CEF) at about $3 billion in net assets and thus, has a lot of investors spread among its 305 million