(Source: Unsplash) Introduction I recently published an article encouraging investors to avoid long-term bonds because they currently offer extremely low incremental yield pickups per unit of duration (interest rate) risk - lower than ever before in history. I have encouraged selling not only long-term bond funds, but even core bond

iShares Short Treasury Bond ETF (SHV) holds over $21.2 billion in assets when we last looked at it. It is one of the larger ETFs around and assets have actually gone up over the last few years. We examine this one today as its numbers gave us a mild case

Vulnerability is basically uncertainty, risk, and emotional exposure. - Brene Brown The ProShares UltraPro QQQ ETF (NASDAQ:TQQQ) has set an ambitious goal - generating a daily return that is three times that of the NASDAQ 100 (NDX), before fees and expenses. It achieves its goals by leveraging its net assets and

Author's note: This article was previously released to CEF/ETF Income Laboratory members. Please check latest data before investing. The Weekly Closed-End Fund Roundup will be put out at the start of each week to summarize recent price movements in closed-end fund (CEF) sectors in the last week, as well as

Steadily lower CEF yields and heightened volatility have underlined the attraction of alpha-generation strategies. In this article, we take a look at a number of relative value CEF opportunities in the preferreds sector. Within the Flaherty & Crumrine suite of preferred CEFs, we highlight the Flaherty & Crumrine/Claymore Total Return

Quite a bit has been written about the ProShares VIX Short-Term Futures ETF (NYSEARCA:VIXY), and the coverage is hardly ever bullish. Seeking Alpha contributor QuandaryFX has been one of the most prolific analysts of the fund, having stated that: VIXY follows an index which drops at a pace of around 50%

Written by Nick Ackerman, co-produced by Stanford Chemist BlackRock Enhanced Capital and Income Fund (CII) provides an overweight to the attractive growth names of tech. However, to keep it more defensive, the fund utilizes an option strategy and offers exposure to a more diversified group of assets. As volatility has increased

Aside from the truly awful consequences of the coronavirus in terms of lives lost and the disruptions to our lives, there has been a big toll on those who use funds to try to create a path to their financial well-being. But, fortunately, for those investors who did not panic

The Aberdeen Asia-Pacific Income Fund (NYSEMKT:FAX) is a closed-end fund that invests in Asia-Pacific region bonds and debt securities. While the COVID-19 pandemic has represented a challenging market environment, the fund has been able to overcome significant volatility to return 2% thus far this year. The actively-managed fund currently yields

My judgment is based on looking at publicly available supply and demand reports (EIA). Those reports indicated that COVID lockdowns crashed demand by ~4 million barrels per day (mb/d). Beginning in mid-April, gasoline demand has recovered to about 1 mb/d below pre-COVID. In response to the Russian-Saudi price war,