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The Investor's Guide
to Closed-End Funds
The Investor's Guide to Closed-End
Funds is a comprehensive monthly
report on the closed-end fund industry. The
report contains trading recommendations on all
closed-end funds in every issue and also includes
commentary by Thomas J. Herzfeld, closed-end fund
announcements, dividends, and published managed
portfolios showing the actual results of investment
programs available to subscribers.
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SPECIAL NOTE: The August, 2010 issue will be published on
Thursday, July 29, 2010 at 4:10 PM |
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Some recent topics covered in the report include:
- Buy on Bad News;
Demand Letters, Lawsuits and Reaction
from an Unusual Source; Average Expense
Ratios Show Only Small Improvement:
Annual Survey of Closed-End Fund Expense
Ratios; Valuation Prediction Starts to
Come True; First Billion Dollar+ IPO
Since 2007 (July, 2010)
- A Few
Long-Awaited Opportunities; Quarterly
ARPs Update: Lots of Activity but Few
New Redemptions; Investment Advisor
Scorecard; Large Shareholders: In their
Own Words; Review of Proxy Battles and
Legal Action; SPECIAL SECTION: Survey of
Declared Stakes: By Fund and By
Shareholder (June, 2010)
- Closed-End Funds Enjoy Continued Rally: First
Quarter Performance Rankings and Survey;
Closed-End Fund "Yields" Better Aligned
with Income: Income Ratio Survey; Funds
of Closed-End Funds: Interview with Doug
Bond, Portfolio Manager of Cohen &
Steers Closed-End Opportunity Fund (FOF);
RiskMetrics Issues Dual Recommendation;
Texas Shoot Out; Fitch Clarifies
Guidelines (May, 2010)
- Managed Payouts
Poised to Make a Comeback; Fair
Valuation Transparency: Survey of Fair
Valuation Disclosures; Fair Valuation
the Subject of a Shareholder Proposal;
Advisory Contracts May be in Need of
Clarification (April, 2010)
- Shift if Media
Perspective; Taxing Surprise: Survey of
Municipal Fund Distributions Subject to
AMT; Auction Rate Preferred Liquidity
Crisis Update: Two Years After the Deep
Freeze; Survey of Declared ARPs
Shareholders and Remaining Outstanding
Shares; Voting Issues Related to ARPs
Holdings: Interview with Warren Antler
of the Altman Group (March, 2010)
- Tough Act to Follow: Annual and Fourth Quarter
Performance Rankings and Survey; Some
Premiums Begin to Evaporate; Herzfeld
Research Announces Expanded Access for
Institutional Subscribers; Taking it Off
the Shelf: A Look at Secondary Offerings
by Closed-End Funds; Ratings Proposal
Met with Indifference; Where Have All
the ARPs Gone? (February, 2010)
- Unusual Year-End;
New Year's Buy List; 2009 Year in
Review: Annual Survey of Activity in the
Closed-End Fund Industry; End of 2009
Investment Advisor ARPs Scorecard
(January, 2010)
- Opposite Extremes;
Declared Shareholder Stakes: Surveys by
Fund and Shareholder; SEC Expresses
Concerns about Management Entrenchment;
Survey of State Incorporation and Board
Election Policies; Choice of Forum for
Closed-End Fund Formation; Closed-End
Funds Sample New Flavors of Preferred
Leverage (December, 2009)
- Main Street Discovers Closed-End Funds;
Closed-End Funds Turn in Impressive
Performance: Nine Month and Third
Quarter Performance Survey and Rankings;
Lost But Not Forgotten: Survey of Loss
Carryforwards; ARPs Update: Timeline of
the ARPs Liquidity Crisis (November,
2009)
- Yield-Hungry
Investors Narrow Discounts; Investors'
Love/Hate Relationship with Leverage:
Survey of Closed-End Fund Leverage; Tax
Wrinkle May Cause Return of Capital to
be Taxable; IPOs Feature Aggressive
"Lifeboats"; Closed-End
Fund-Focused Website Debuts
(October, 2009)
- Long Quiet Summer;
"Lifeboat" Provisions in Closed-End
Funds; Turning Lemons into Lemonade: UBS
Plans to Repackage and Market ARPs; New
Indexes Track Closed-End Funds
(September, 2009)
- Discounts Remain
Narrow; What a Difference a Quarter
Makes: Performance Looking Up; First
Half and Second Quarter Performance
Survey and Rankings; Getting the Rights
Right: Trading Strategies for Rights
Offerings; Controversy Surrounds
Telephone Vote Gathering; Nuveen
Shareholder Blocks $750 Million of ARPs
Redemptions (August, 2009)
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