Despite scary headlines, low-A.I.-risk BDCs are worth a new look now
With the market kicking business-development companies in the teeth, John Cole Scott , President of CEF Advisors, digs into his firm's data looking at "artificial-intelligence risk scoring" ...
Abrdn’s Duitz: Recessionary pressure is good for infrastructure, dividend plays
Josh Duitz, deputy head of global equities at Abrdn -- portfolio manager for Abrdn Global Infrastructure Income and two of the firm's dynamic dividend funds -- says that the macro drivers for infrastructure -- globalization, upgrades and repairs, urbanization and increased demand...
Protections in Delaware law could change activist investing
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...
VettaFi’s Islam talks the benefits of an index of closed-end funds
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...
Your questions answered with John Cole Scott of Closed-End Fund Advisors
John Cole Scott, President of Closed-End Fund Advisors — the Chairman of the Active Investment Company Alliance — answers listener questions about whether premiums and returns of capital are as bad for investors as they are often...
Bonus NAVigator: Gladstone’s Bob Marcotte at the AICA BDC Forum
Bob Marcotte, President at Gladstone Capital Corp., says that government policies which encourage business investment and capital expenditures are creating outstanding conditions for the private credit market. In an interview at the Active Investment Company Alliance BDC Forum in New York City, Marcotte said...
