John Cole Scott: BDC worries are creating headlines, opportunities
The stock market has been beating up business-development companies, with the sell-off largely being blamed on the artificial intelligence boom and the high number of loans that BDCs make to software ...
Finding big discounts is hard, but closed-end funds remain attractive
John Cole Scott, chief investment officer at Closed-End Fund Advisors and the executive chairman of the Active Investment Company Alliance, says that with strong recent performance, 'getting big fat discounts continues to be hard,' but he says that shouldn't dampen enthusiasm for...
Convertibles are acting more like stocks than bonds
Tom Dinsmore, Portfolio Manager at Gabelli Funds, which manages the 50-year-old Bancroft Fund and several other issues that specialize in convertible securities, says that investors looking to increase yields with a 'bond-like equity' will be hard-pressed to create a portfolio of...
Christian Munafo on private markets, AI impacts
Christian Munafo, Chief Investment Officer, Liberty Street Advisors, Inc., and Portfolio Manager of The Private Shares Fund, explores the reasons why many companies are staying private for longer. He says that while public markets are slowly reawakening, mergers and acquisitions remain scant, concluding that “there really aren’t a lot of paths today for these companies to exit as we’ve had in prior cycles.
Sam Garetano on the Brookfield Infrastructure Income Fund
Sam Garetano, a Senior Vice President in Brookfield’s Infrastructure Group, discusses the Brookfield Infrastructure Income Fund, Inc. (BII), a continuously offered, non-diversified closed-end fund. Garetano describes the investment vehicle as “an evergreen offering that’s intended to be a comprehensive private infrastructure allocation that provides exposure to both private infrastructure debt as well as private infrastructure equity.
