Podcast

Neil Azous, chief investment officer at Rareview Capital in Stamford, Conn., discussed how the four ways that investors typically make money in municipal-bond closed-end funds typically aren't all in favor at the same time. These times, however, are anything but typical...

Larry Antonatos, managing director / portfolio manager at Brookfield Asset Management, says 'the depths of uncertainty and the market lows surrounding coronavirus are behind us.' The manager of Brookfield Real Assets Income Fund, said the firm's real asset managers are positioning now for a recover...

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...

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...

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...

Andrew Kerai, senior credit strategist at RiverNorth Capital Management, portfolio manager for RiverNorth Specialty Finance Corp., says that the difficult market has created strong opportunities for increasing the credit quality in bond portfolios...

Kelly Thompson, founder and editor at Direct Lending Deals, says that business development companies specializing in middle-market lending are facing the pain of some defaults and the potential for restructurings, but she believes that the problems ultimately will make...

Matt Freund, co-manager of Calamos Long-Short Equity & Dynamic Income. says that while interest rates have been positioned lower-for-longer by the Fed, there are still ways to diversify bond holdings to generate income. In addition...

John Cole Scott, chief investment officer at Closed-End Fund Advisors and the founder of the Active Investment Company Alliance, returns to the NAVigator to compare traits, characteristics and results of closed-end funds with non-listed interval funds offered by...

Bill Meyers, head of the closed-end business development group at Nuveen Inc., discusses how leverage works in closed-end funds and the types of leverage and rules governing it because leveraged funds...