Podcast

Christian Pittard, group head of product opportunities for Aberdeen Asset Management, says that changing structures have made initial-public offerings in closed-end funds more attractive, and were responsible for a big increase in IPO activity in America in 2019 that he expects to continue...

John Cole Scott, chief investment officer at Closed-End Fund Advisors and the founder and executive chairman of the Active Investment Company Alliance, revisits data used by his father George Cole Scott in writing "Investing in Closed-End Funds: Finding Value and Building Wealth,"...

John Cole Scott, chief investment officer at Closed-End Fund Advisors and the founder and executive chairman at the Active Investment Company Alliance, looks at the year that was in closed-end funds for 2019, starting from the Christmas holiday a year ago when the business had been decimated by...

Russell Robinson of Capital Institutional Services -- a brokerage platform that supplies liquidity for closed-end funds -- describes how some issues are thinly traded and require an intermediary like his firm to step in and maintain an orderly market...

This week on The NAVigator, Jeremy Goff, managing director at Tortoise Advisors, discusses how investors can use interval funds -- which have less liquidity than the standard closed-end fund -- to add structure and diversification to a portfolio. Goff compares traditional closed-end funds...

Axel Merk, president and chief investment officer at the Merk Funds, recently took over the ASA Gold and Precious Metals closed-end fund, and he talks about what convinced him to mak the move, the differences between traditional funds and closed-end funds for investors seeking...

Jerry Raio, president and chief executive officer at Arbor Lane Advisors in New York -- a firm that helps money-management companies develop new investment products -- says that changes making closed-end fund initial public offerings more attractive have combined with favorable market conditions...

Nicholas Marshi, editor of BDC Reporter, said that business-development companies held strong on their dividends in the third-quarter despite LIBOR dropping and eroding investment income during the period. Marshi said BDC's made up for the income shortfall caused by LIBOR by...

John Cole Scott, executive chairman of the Active Investment Company Alliance returns to The NAVigator to answer audience questions about some of the nuts and bolts of closed-end fund investing, covering tax-loss selling and where to expect good opportunities this year...

Phillip Goldstein, co-founder of the Bulldog Investors hedge fund and a legendary activist investor in the closed-end fund space said at the Active Investment Company Alliance Boot Camp and Conference in New York City that he fears for the future of...