We received an email this morning from Kid Dynamite tipping us off to a recent article in the WSJ. The article details the questionable mechanics of a certain set of Closed End Funds that may come as a shock to you. According to the WSJ, Cornerstone Read more…
NYSE:CFP
Martin Hutchinson: With the economy beginning to stall, Ben Bernanke’s war on the nation’s savers rolls on. From his promise to keep the Fed funds rate near zero through late 2014 to his efforts to push ten-year note yields even lower, the Fed Chairman Read more…
ETF BASIC NEWS
Ron Rowland: Dear ETF Regulators, It is time to step up to the challenge of your job’s main mandate - protecting investors. Investor confidence in exchange traded funds (“ETFs”) and Read more…
NYSE:AMLP, NYSE:GAZ, NYSE:SPY, NYSE:TVIX, NYSE:YMLP
Jared Cummans: Income investing is always a popular strategy for portfolio allocation that t is perhaps most effective in sideways markets, when few asset classes are generating stable returns. With today’s major indices swaying back and forth with each coming day, many analysts feel that we are indeed Read more…
NYSE:AMJ, NYSE:AMLP
Van Eck introduced the Market Vectors CEF Municipal Income ETF (NYSE:XMPT) on Wednesday, giving investors another option for accessing a corner of the U.S. bond market that has been the subject of heated debate in recent weeks. The new ETF will seek to replicate the Read more…
NYSE:ITM, NYSE:PCEF, NYSE:SMB, NYSE:XMPT
For years, we’ve been reading about how “accredited investors” could invest in startups such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and others before they actually go public with an IPO. The logic is that Read more…
ETF BASIC NEWS
Ron Pechtimaldjian - There was record attendance at the 9th Annual Closed-End Funds and Global ETFs Forum on Wednesday, April 28, held at the Metropolitan Club. Read more…
ETF BASIC NEWS
Aberdeen Asset Management Inc. (“Aberdeen”), a global asset management group managing more $10 billion in closed-end fund assets globally with companies listed on the NYSE, London and Read more…
ETF BASIC NEWS
“This fund kicks out a decent yield, and I wouldn’t be surprised to see some decent capital appreciation down the road. We have heard of closed-end funds buying exchange-traded funds as Read more…
NYSE:PCEF
S-Network Global Indexes LLC announced today the launch of a new index that tracks the performance of yield-oriented, closed-end funds Read more…
ETF BASIC NEWS
The following Claymore-advised exchange-traded funds (“ETFs”) and closed-end funds (“CEFs” and, collectively with the ETFs, the “Funds”) announce that the reconvened Joint Special Read more…
ETF BASIC NEWS
Claymore Investments, Inc. is pleased to announce the January distributions for the following closed-end funds and exchange-traded funds which pay monthly distributions Read more…
ETF BASIC NEWS
(BUSINESS WIRE) — Guggenheim Partners, LLC (“Guggenheim Partners”), a global diversified financial services firm, and Claymore Group Inc. (“Claymore”), a leading provider of innovative investment products, including exchange-traded funds Read more…
ETF BASIC NEWS
“The launch of a municipal fund by Nuveen Investments LLC marks another step forward for the market in new closed-end funds Read more…
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