Podcast

Michael Spatacco, director at Bancroft Capital, discusses how ESG investing -- for environmental, social and governmental factors taken into consideration -- is starting to gain a foothold in the closed-end funds with the opening of a new issue from Nuveen that he has been an adviser to...

With many experts questioning the validity of classic investment allocations, Patrick Galley of RiverNorth Capital Management discusses how closed-end funds fit into the standard 60-40 stocks/fixed-income mix as a way for investors to get more from the bond side of the equation...

Keith Ashton, portfolio manager for the Ares Dynamic Credit Allocation Fund (ticker ARDC), talks about why he likes collateralized loan obligations and other credits as a way of adding low-duration, high-yielding income instruments to a portfolio...

Michael Naughton, chief operating officer for U.S. retail at Lord, Abbett and Co., says the interval-fund structure -- which limits shareholder redemptions -- has given managers of the Lord Abbett Credit Opportunities Fund the ability to pursue the firm's best ideas...

Craig Packer of Owl Rock Capital talks about business-development companies and how the BDC loan market has been impacted by the pandemic.

John Miller, head of municipals at Nuveen, says that the combination of the American Recovery Act and the progress towards recovery and the growing vaccination numbers, have made it so that state and local governments that had been crying poverty are now seeing a boom...

Will Rhind of GraniteShares talks about balancing high yields against risk in the GraniteShares High-Income Pass Through Securities ETF, a fund that invests entirely in business development companies and closed-end funds. Rhind discusses why the fund currently favors closed-end funds slightly...

Nick Holmes, portfolio manager for the Tortoise Essential Assets Income fund, discusses how investing in water infrastructure is mostly lumped in with other infrastructure plays, which he considers a mistake, noting that water is viewed differently as an asset class around the world...

Paul Wick, long-time manager of the Columbia Seligman Communication and Information Fund -- one of the most successful sector funds in history -- talks for the first time about managing a closed-end fund, Columbia Seligman Premium Technology Growth...

Neil Azous, chief investment officer at Rareview Capital, says that 10-year real US interest rates -- which have been on the rise for the last few weeks -- are 'the most impending danger' to investor portfolios...