Aberdeen: Emerging market equities: Have we seen the top?
Aberdeen: Emerging market equities: Have we seen the top? February 10th, 2026
Griffin’s Forman: Interval fund structure has benefits in turbulent markets
Zach Forman, head of fund relations at Griffin Capital Securities -- which runs the Griffin Institutional Access Real Estate Fund -- says that the illiquidity of interval funds can be a real benefit to investors during turbulent times, not only by providing access to private markets...
Bancroft’s Spatacco: Closed-end funds are now attractive right out of the box
Michael Spatacco, director at Bancroft Capital, says that closed-end funds were an overlooked investment type for years, largely because the structure used for selling new issues put investors at a disadvantage. With that negative now mostly gone, however...
Goldstein says new SEC ruling puts a chill on shareholder activism
Phillip Goldstein, co-founder of Bulldog Investors and a leading activist investor in closed-end funds, discusses a recent Securities and Exchange Commission decision that he says protects the fund operators at the expense of shareholders...
CEF Discounts Remain Wide, Yields Attractive in Q4 2023
Business development companies (BDC) continued to rally in the fourth quarter of 2023, benefitting from stabilizing dividend policies and narrowing discounts, said John Cole Scott, AICA Chairman and President of Closed-End Fund Advisors (CEFA), on CEFA’s 48th consecutive quarterly research call.
SCG’s Merrill on how derivatives mitigate risk and goose equity returns.
Ian Merrill, president of SCG Asset Management -- which runs The Alternative Strategies Income Fund, a continuously offered closed-end interval fund -- says that investors can change the risk-reward picture in equities by using derivatives to reduce risk...
