Carlyle: Resilient growth, rising costs, growing divergence
Carlyle: Resilient growth, rising costs, growing divergence April 7th, 2026
The search for funds in today’s ‘painful, ugly shocking’ closed-end environment
John Cole Scott, chief investment officer at Closed-End Fund Advisors and the chairman of the Active Investment Company Alliance, talks about the search for closed-end funds that can deliver in rising-rate, high-inflation conditions, talks about five issues from different categories...
Low-return environment calls for savvy allocations, risk management
Nathan Shetty, head of multi-asset for Nuveen and co-manager of the Nuveen Multi-Asset Income Fund, discusses the importance of using proper allocations to generate reasonable and consistent total returns in a low-return environment...
Interval Funds are a Fast-Growing Alternative Investment Vehicle
Interval Funds are an increasingly popular way for investors to access alternative investments. Manager like the interval structure as a route to more retail-oriented assets while staying true their investment processes. Investors like the funds as a means to access alternative strategies that offer low correlation to traditional investments. The features of the Interval Fund structure, a hybrid between private funds and mutual funds, is what makes them so appealing.
CION’s Gatto on how private markets have weathered tumultuous markets
Mark Gatto, co-founder and co-chief executive officer at CION Investment Group, says that private investments have been weathering current storms better than public companies because illiquidity translates to stability in times when the market is volatile. Gatto says these markets have...
CEF Discounts Narrow Again in Q1 2025: CEF Advisors
The universe of closed-end funds (CEFs) saw discounts narrow in the first quarter of 2025, averaging -4.9% and yielding about 9%, said John Cole Scott, AICA Chairman and President of Closed-End Fund Advisors (CEF Advisors), during his firm’s 53rd consecutive quarterly research call covering the CEF and business development company (BDC) universe


