Podcast2025-04-23T15:29:52-04:00

Chuck Jaffe on the NAVigator Podcast

Chuck Jaffe joined Jane King in New York City to discuss the fifth anniversary of the weekly NAVigator Podcast, the podcast he hosts for the Active Investment Company Alliance (AICA). Jaffe talks about how the podcast has grown in popularity and helped to raise the profile of the closed-end fund industry. He says investors who listen to the podcast eventually become comfortable with closed-end funds and end up engaging with them — and when they work — stick with them. Noting he’s a journalist and “not a Wall Street guy,” Jaffe says he tries to explain closed-end funds in ways that the average person can understand.

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31Jan, 2020

Let’s hunt unicorns with management of the Sharespost 100 Fund

The NAVigator looks at a unique offering today as Christian Munafo of SP Investment Management discusses his firm's Sharespost 100 Fund, an actively managed, continuously offered, closed-end interval fund that buys late-stage venture-backed private companies...

24Jan, 2020

Closed-end funds can be their own asset class for delivering income

Mitch Reiner, chief operating officer at Capital Investment Advisers, says he considers closed-end funds one of six key asset classes for delivering income in an investment portfolio, and while he acknowledged that his view is unique because closed-end issues...

17Jan, 2020

John Cole Scott answers questions on closed-end fund basics

Audience members have questions, and John Cole Scott has answers. The chief investment officer at Closed-End Fund Advisors and executive chairman of the Active Investment Company Alliance answers three queries from audience members this week...

10Jan, 2020

Aberdeen’s Pittard: US closed-end opportunities are growing and changing

Christian Pittard, group head of product opportunities for Aberdeen Asset Management, says that changing structures have made initial-public offerings in closed-end funds more attractive, and were responsible for a big increase in IPO activity in America in 2019 that he expects to continue...

3Jan, 2020

Three decades of data and change give a glimpse into the future

John Cole Scott, chief investment officer at Closed-End Fund Advisors and the founder and executive chairman of the Active Investment Company Alliance, revisits data used by his father George Cole Scott in writing "Investing in Closed-End Funds: Finding Value and Building Wealth,"...

27Dec, 2019

AICA’s founding chairman looks back on 2019 and ahead to 2020

John Cole Scott, chief investment officer at Closed-End Fund Advisors and the founder and executive chairman at the Active Investment Company Alliance, looks at the year that was in closed-end funds for 2019, starting from the Christmas holiday a year ago when the business had been decimated by...

20Dec, 2019

How and why some closed-end trades require a matchmaker

Russell Robinson of Capital Institutional Services -- a brokerage platform that supplies liquidity for closed-end funds -- describes how some issues are thinly traded and require an intermediary like his firm to step in and maintain an orderly market...

13Dec, 2019

Interval funds offer a unique, structured way to get alternatives

This week on The NAVigator, Jeremy Goff, managing director at Tortoise Advisors, discusses how investors can use interval funds -- which have less liquidity than the standard closed-end fund -- to add structure and diversification to a portfolio. Goff compares traditional closed-end funds...

2Dec, 2019

2019 has been a record year for closed-end IPOs, and 2020 should be better

Jerry Raio, president and chief executive officer at Arbor Lane Advisors in New York -- a firm that helps money-management companies develop new investment products -- says that changes making closed-end fund initial public offerings more attractive have combined with favorable market conditions...

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