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Don't Pay Premium Prices for These Stocks Many closed-end funds are still overpriced. |
The Motley Fool
April 29, 2010
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These Dividends Are Outrageous There are safer, more prudent ways to generate income than closed-end funds. |
The Motley Fool
November 20, 2008
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Invest at a Double Discount Closed-end funds offer amazing opportunities right now. |
Registered Rep.
June 1, 2006
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The Discount Mystery When exchange-traded funds appeared in the 1990s, some observers predicted that the new vehicles would doom their older cousins, closed-end funds. But lately those boring old closed-end funds have been attracting renewed attention. |
The Motley Fool
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Dividend We Fall A new closed-end fund is large and, unfortunately, ready to charge. Alpine Global Dynamic Dividend Fund trades at a 3% premium, and it never traded below its $20 IPO price. |
The Motley Fool
December 19, 2011
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5 Top Performers Due for a Fall Looking at the best performers in the closed-end realm this year reveals that not all of the activity there is because of performance-chasing. |
The Motley Fool
December 20, 2010
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Muni Bond ETFs? Not So Fast An argument against municipal bond exchange-traded funds. |
The Motley Fool
August 16, 2004
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Closing In on Dividends Closed-end mutual funds can supplement your dividend-paying stock portfolio. |
Financial Advisor
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A Few Bargains Be selective when buying closed-end stock funds. |
Registered Rep.
June 11, 2014
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Bargains in Closed-End Funds? According to Thomas J. Herzfeld Advisors, the average closed-end bond fund now sells at a 6% discount to the value of its assets. You can buy $1 worth of bonds for 94 cents. |
The Motley Fool
April 12, 2007
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The Mystery of Closed-End Funds Why are these obscure investments suddenly gaining popularity? Approach buying a closed-end fund the same way you would approach buying an open-end fund. Ask yourself: Does this fund make sense in the context of my overall portfolio? |
BusinessWeek
September 29, 2003
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Closed-Ends: The Window Is Closing Their heavy reliance on bonds makes them risky when rates are rising. |
The Motley Fool
May 17, 2011
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Why Closed-End Funds Scare Investors These ETF ancestors used to be all the rage, but now they're out of favor. |
Financial Advisor
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Options For Generating Income Judging from a slew of recent offerings, Wall Street is betting that a high-yielding twist on an old fund idea will attract investors looking for higher interest rates who are wary of fluctuating bond prices. |
The Motley Fool
April 21, 2009
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You Can Still Buy Stocks for 85 Cents on the Dollar There are still ways to get in on blue-chip companies at pre-rally prices. Closed-end funds continue to trade at sharp discounts to their actual holdings. |
The Motley Fool
April 5, 2004
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85 Cents for a Dollar? Closed-end mutual funds offer more bang for your investing buck. |
The Motley Fool
May 27, 2010
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3 Isn't Always Better Than 1 This fund uses several different strategies to maximize income, but still falls short. |
The Motley Fool
May 28, 2008
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The Cheap and Easy Way to Invest Globally Buying discounted closed-end fund shares offers an opportunity you won't find very often. When those discounts narrow or even turn into premiums, you can earn profits well beyond your fund's portfolio returns. |
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December 1, 2007
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In Search of Yield A noted fund manager explains a strategy for trading closed-end funds. |
Financial Advisor
November 2008
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In The Basement Like many other securities, closed-end preferred stock funds have been hit hard by the national financial crisis. |
The Motley Fool
February 11, 2010
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A Better Way to Buy Buffett? Berkshire Hathaway's closed-end fund now comes with a discount, but is it a good deal? |
The Motley Fool
April 4, 2011
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5 Closed-End Funds You Should Watch These little-understood investments can give you big bargains. |
The Motley Fool
November 19, 2010
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Has the Next Meltdown Begun? The municipal bond market is feeling the hurt. |
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September 2005
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Primed for Income An old standby -- the closed-end fund -- is showing new life, finding a receptive audience among the income needy. |
The Motley Fool
December 22, 2010
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Bill Gross Is Buying This. Should You? The bond market has gone into free fall in recent weeks. But bond guru Bill Gross apparently thinks it's much ado about nothing -- and he's letting his money do the talking for him. |
The Motley Fool
November 23, 2011
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Don't Be Fooled by "Safe" Payouts No investment is completely safe right now. |
BusinessWeek
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Discount Days For Closed-End Funds A glut of new funds worsened year-end slides. But that means you might find a deal |
The Motley Fool
October 16, 2006
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Get More Than You Pay For: Part 2 Because closed-end funds have a fixed number of shares and trade only on stock exchanges, there are potential opportunities and pitfalls for people who invest in them. |
The Motley Fool
February 25, 2010
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Watch Out for This Wealth-Killer You can't afford to pay two sets of managers. One thing you have to do with ETFs is to look at their costs. |
The Motley Fool
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Go Global With Closed-End Funds Discounts make these alternatives to ETFs attractive, but beware of high expenses. |
The Motley Fool
August 19, 2011
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The Motley Fool
June 13, 2008
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3 Closed-End Fund Bargains for Dad Read on for three great closed-end fund bargains for Dad. Let's hope that will whet your appetite to check out the hundreds of other closed-end funds that currently trade at attractive discounts. |
Financial Planning
July 1, 2008
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Better Yields Yield can be found in a variety of places, from the most common to the highly esoteric. Here's a look at some of them. |
The Motley Fool
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A Dollar for 85 Cents Closed-end mutual funds offer more bang for your investing buck as long as they are trading at a discount. |
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ETFs and Closed-End Funds: New Strategies for a New Day The range of ETFs continues to grow and advisors are graduating to the next level of sophistication, from the traditional use of gaining quick access to a sector or country, to now delivering alpha to clients. |
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The Up Side of Fear and Greed RiverNorth Core Opportunity takes advantage of inefficiencies in the closed-end fund business in an open-end mutual fund. |
The Motley Fool
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ETF Buyers: Read This or Lose Money Make sure you're getting what you're paying for. |
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October 12, 2010
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How to Make Money Like a Bailed-Out Bank Big institutions are the main winners, but you can still participate. Savvy investors are discovering ways to reap their own profits from the government's policies, even in areas that few investors truly understand. |
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Stan Luxenberg |
Calming the Terrified Client For most clients, however, there are options more lucrative than principal-protection funds that provide a respectable return without assuming the risk of straight equity funds. Consider, for example, closed-end municipal bond funds. |
BusinessWeek
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Option Income Funds: Watch Out Option income funds, which hold stocks and sell call options against them, offer payouts that are generous in these low-yield times, but the risks are great. |
BusinessWeek
April 16, 2007
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Funds For The Dividend Junkie Put your money in one of the new, so-called dividend capture funds, and you get the equivalent of six dividends a year. |
The Motley Fool
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Funds Fighting Inflation Rethink reinvesting during retirement. Vanguard Short-Term Bond Index... Vanguard 500 Index... |
The Motley Fool
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Get Your Big Yields the Right Way Some "income funds" offer less income than you'd think. |
Financial Advisor
March 2004
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Filling The Tax-Favored Dividend Void Investors seem to covet higher dividends and lower taxes. Forty-three percent of respondents to a recent survey of 600 individuals conducted by American Century Investments said they are more likely to buy stocks that pay dividends qualifying for the new tax rate. |
The Motley Fool
August 9, 2004
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Diversifying Your Dividends Exchange-traded funds (ETFs), and closed-end mutual funds (CEFs) offer some of the best solutions for most income investors. |
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May 2, 2007
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From Russia With Love The new Market Vectors Russia ETF, which is managed by Van Eck Global, will give investors direct access to a variety of Russian stocks. |
The Motley Fool
January 3, 2007
Dan Caplinger |
Using Leveraged Funds Recently, as exchange-traded funds have become increasingly popular, funds that use leverage to amplify their performance have come into vogue. |
The Motley Fool
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5 Stocks That Will Fatten Your Wallet Dividends are on the rise. |
