Cefs in a sentence

Investors who do not have an appetite for higher volatility should generally stay away from CEFs or at least avoid the leveraged CEFs.

A much better coverage, but most equity CEFs will require significant capital gains.

Beyond comparisons to utility ETFs or the S&P500, many previous articles and comments about UTG argue for or against the fund vs. other CEFs in the same sector, mostly BUI, UTF, and DNP.

CEFS' investment process includes proprietary screens that analyze closed-end funds across a variety of factors including yield, discount to NAV, and quality of underlying securities.

For starters, you can see in our earlier tables that preferred CEFs have outperformed almost all preferred ETFs over the last 5 years.

Glad we are in agreement, and happy to year CEFs have served you well in your financial independence.

I have a different take on some of the cc equity CEFs.

Our host goes on to suggest starting small with CEFs and building positions over time up to 20 or 25% of total holdings.

Preferred Stock CEFs have some distinct advantages over Preferred Stock ETFs, especially with regards to fund flows, liquidity needs, the use of leverage and significant price premiums/discounts versus NAV.

That flexibility is one of the best things about CEFs.

The comparison here is HYD against leveraged CEFs that own debt.

The fund's expense ratio isn't overly high relative to other CEFs.

When I talk to investors about closed-end funds (CEFs), I get an almost universal reaction: they simply can’t believe the outsized dividends—and upside potential—these funds boast are for real.

Additionally, the yields from CEFs outperformed, on average, many of the other higher-yielding options on the market.

CEFs, of course, are mainly income vehicles, so that’s where we need to start when we talk about their performance.

Closed-end funds (CEFs) are relatively under the radar compared to peers like exchange-traded funds (ETFs) and mutual funds.

In other words, income investors will see their Treasury income slip, and that, in turn, will drive them back to CEFs.

Whether that's because they needed to raise cash, reduce debt or focus on other high-yield opportunities, the end result has meant less assets to spread around in CEFs.

Today we’re going to dig deeper and put some numbers behind how these CEFs can do even more, including handing you a dividend that’s what you’d get on stocks—and these payouts are tax-free, to boot!

At High Dividend Opportunities we have been writing a series of reports to our members to highlight some of the best fixed income CEFs, preferred stocks and bonds to benefit from this new trend.