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In most cases, you’ll want to find a CEF in your chosen investment class that has a lower expense ratio. Although there are ...

Yet these are exactly the kinds of opportunities that arise in the market's best closed-end funds (CEFs ... And here's where the fun starts. CEF prices are set by the market the same way a ...

The First Trust Enhanced Equity Income Fund offers an attractive distribution with a tech-leaning portfolio. Learn more about ...

Investment funds have a variety of legal structures customized to investors’ various needs and investment policies. The two main fund structures ...

Exchange-traded funds, or ETFs, are popular these days, but closed-end funds, or CEFs ... the share price of a CEF can diverge from its net asset value, or NAV, and trade at a premium or a ...

Investors have a unique opportunity to explore closed-end funds ... that can lead to a CEF's disconnect from NAV, including but not limited to liquidity of the fund's shares, amount of leverage ...

At the CEF/ETF Income Laboratory, we manage closed-end fund (CEF) and exchange-traded fund (ETF) portfolios targeting safe and reliable ~8% yields to make income investing easy for you.

Investing $60,000 in these three closed-end funds (CEFs) could generate an annual income of over $6,500. This CEF invests primarily in secured and unsecured U.S. corporate loans. Its portfolio ...

I often talk about high-yielding closed-end funds (CEFs ... according to the CEF Connect fund screener. In other words, almost all of the fund's gains are coming from its premium to its intrinsic ...