Rob Shaker, portfolio manager at Shaker Financial, says that the tax-loss selling season for closed-end funds should be particularly interesting in 2020, given the volatility funds saw throughout the year. That said, he anticipates that discounts will widen in December...

Robert Bush, senior vice president and director of closed-end fund products at Calamos Investments, says that the benefits of closed-end fund investing have been on display this year in the rebounding stock market coupled with the low rate environment...

Brian Schaffer, managing director at Prosek Partners -- and the head of special situations for the public-relations firm -- discusses the changing face of shareholder activism for closed-end funds, and the role that communications has in helping investors measure...

John Cole Scott,  chief investment officer at Closed-End Fund Advisors and the founder and executive chairman of the Active Investment Company Alliance does a quick 1-2-3 in this week's edition of The NAVigator, answering three questions from the audience...

Bryce Rowe, senior equity research analyst for business development companies at National Securities Corp., returns to the NAVigator to revisit business-development companies now. In his last appearance -- just days before the stock market bottomed out from its winter swoon...

David Tepper of Tepper Capital Management in San Francisco explains why he uses closed-end funds almost exclusively in his client portfolios, noting that in today's market conditions there are plenty of opportunities to build a well-diversified portfolio at a discount...

Peter Vanderlee of ClearBridge Investments, co-manager of the LMP Capital and Income Fund, says that the stock market's recovery back to record-high levels hasn't made dividend stocks overpriced because much of the move has been in stocks that don't make distributions..

Terry Gallagher, executive vice president at UMB Fund Services, sees an industry-wide trend towards the development of new interval and tender-offer funds. Gallagher -- whose firm helps investment companies launch new issues --...

John Cole Scott, chief investment officer at Closed-End Fund Advisors and the founder/executive chairman of the Active Investment Company Alliance, celebrates the end of the first year of The NAVigator podcast with a quick look back at a tumultuous 12 months for closed-end funds...

Daniel Wildermuth, chief executive officer, Wildermuth Wealth and portfolio manager of the Wildermuth Endowment Fund, says that investing like the big college endowment funds creates a long-term outlook that's heavy in private equity and other alternative asset classes...