Nuveen’s Weyandt on why current events make listed real assets look good
Matt Weyandt, a client Portfolio Manager on the listed real assets team at Nuveen, discusses how buying "location-specific hard assets" in essential industries that deliver to a "Halo theme" ...
Duncan Farley explains event-driven credit
Duncan Farley, Portfolio Manager for RBC BlueBay Asset Management, digs in on event-driven credit and the overall performance of the BlueBay Destra International Event-Driven Credit Fund, a continuously offered closed-end interval fund. Destra serves as advisors to the fund and BlueBay Asset Management is the fund’s sub-advisor. Farley also talks about the potential benefits of the interval fund structure, which he says for his team provides a “very unique way to match investors’ liquidity requirements with the underlying liquidity profile of the investments that we’re investing in.”
John Cole Scott reviews a rough quarter for closed-end funds
John Cole Scott, president of Closed-End Fund Advisors -- the chairman of the Active Investment Company Alliance -- digs into his data to give a recap of the third quarter for the closed-end fund industry, noting that municipal bond funds and REIT funds particularly took it on the chin...
VettaFi’s Islam on the struggles/potential of ETFs buying closed-end funds
Roxanna Islam, head of sector and industry research at VettaFi, says that cautious retail investors have been looking for safety and yield and that while closed-end funds have traditionally filled that bill, investors in ETFs that buy closed-end funds have been avoiding a lot of the struggles by turning elsewhere to invest.
Aberdeen’s Duitz on where he’s turning for dividend growth now
Josh Duitz, Global Head of Income for Aberdeen — Manager of the Aberdeen Total Dynamic Dividend Fund — talks about where he is finding success in generating elevated income at a time when rate cuts are making it harder for investors to earn easy ...
XA’s Kim Flynn on Private Markets
Kim Flynn, President of XA Investments, talks about private market investments and how advisors are turning to them to create new opportunities for clients. With so many U.S. businesses still held by private funds, private offerings offer an enticing alternative to public equities, Flynn said. An interval fund, a type of SEC-registered closed-end fund, can house a range of private assets — including alternative credit....
