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 investors from activist investors acting like corporate raiders...

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...

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...

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...

Portfolio manager Tim Ryan of Nuveen -- who runs the Nuveen Dynamic Municipal Opportunities closed-end fund -- says that after a miserable first half of 2022 that lagged Treasury bonds, conditions have stabilized for muni bonds, which now have a more attractive yield curve...

Timothy Reick, chief executive officer at Liberty Street Advisors -- advisor to the Private Shares Fund -- says that private equity is an asset class that is not correlated to the broad stock market, and that individual investors largely overlook its potential role in their portfolios...

John Cole Scott, chief investment officer at Closed-End Fund Advisors and the chairman of the Active Investment Company Alliance, says that business-development companies -- which are built to handle a four-year business cycle -- are looking at positive surprises as second-quarter earnings season arrives...

Rob Shaker, portfolio manager at Shaker Financial Services, says that the closed-end fund market showed signs of a "sympathy widening" in mid-June, an event when there is "excessive liquidation selling based on fear," leading to a bad day on  the stock markets and bond closed-end fund discounts...

Ben McCulloch, managing director and general counsel at XA Investments, says that the last five years have seen over $40 billion in growth in interval funds and tender-offer funds, and that interest has attracted more fund sponsors...

John Cole Scott, chief investment officer at Closed-End Fund Advisors and the chairman of the Active Investment Company Alliance, returns to The NAVigator to answer questions frmo listeners, including one on whether it makes sense to do tax-loss selling now...