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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.  

All files are in PDF format, and follow the same familiar page layout of the original report, which has been published continually since 1986. The report can be viewed on your computer screen or printed out.  Annual subscribers may wish to print out the report and keep it in their binders.  If you need help or have any questions, we are available to help at 305-271-1900 or 800-TJH-FUND (800-854-3863).

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SPECIAL NOTE: The May, 2008 issue will be posted on Wednesday, April 30, 2008 at 4:00 PM

Some recent topics covered in the report include:

  • Trading Update; Closed-End Funds Respond to Auction Rate Preferred Liquidity Crisis, Survey of Auction Rate Preferred Shares; SPECIAL SUPPLEMENT: Where to Find Closed-End Fund Data (April, 2008)
     
  • Trouble on the Auction Block--Auction Rate Preferreds Exposed; Tax-Exempt Distributions Are Not Always "Tax-Free": Table of Distributions Subject to AMT; Closed-End Fund Tax Reclassifications; Flood of Declared Stake Filings (March, 2008)
     
  • Performance Commentary: Traders' Market in Closed-End Funds; Fourth Quarter and 2007 Annual Performance Rankings and Survey; Municipal Bond Funds Rebound But Uncertainty Persists; Institutions Add to Closed-End Fund Holdings (February, 2008)
     
  • New Year's Buy List; The Year in Review - Annual Survey of Activity in The Closed-End Fund Industry in 2007; Claymore Continues Tradition of Innovation (January, 2008)
     
  • Changing Face of Institutional Investors in Closed-End Funds: Survey of Declared Shareholder Stakes; Bargains Abound; Interview with Frank J. Abella, Jr., Investment Partners Asset Management (December, 2007)
     
  • ICI Closed-End Fund Workshop; Abundant Crop of Year-End Trading Opportunities; Third Quarter and Nine Month Performance Rankings and Survey; New Use of Loss Carryforwards: Survey of Closed-End Fund Loss Carryforwards (November, 2007)
     
  • Leverage Use by Closed-End Funds: Survey of Closed-End Fund Leverage; Closed-End Fund "Yields" Have Risen; Yield--Real or Perceived (October, 2007)
     
  • Market Fallout Provides Short-Term Trading Opportunities; Revaluations in Loan Participation Funds; "Lifeboat" Provisions in Closed-End Funds: SPECIAL FEATURE: Survey of Closed-End Fund "Lifeboat" Provisions (September, 2007)
     
  • The Investor's Guide...Celebrates its 21st Anniversary; First Half Performance Overshadowed by Market Declines: Performance Survey and Rankings; SPECIAL FEATURE: Long-Term Charts of Premiums/Discounts (August, 2007)
     
  • Expense Ratios Reflect Changing Regulatory Environment; Nuveen Investments to be Acquired;; Market Shakeout Provides Some Buying Opportunities (July, 2007)
     
  • Declared Shareholder Stakes Forecast Corporate Activity; Herzfeld Advisors' Reorganization Gauge; Declared Shareholder Stakes (June, 2007)
     
  • First Quarter Performance Survey and Rankings; Herzfeld Advisors' Performance; Erik Herzfeld to Head Alternative Strategies Group; Tri-Continental Deals with Dissidents; Commentary and Table of Funds with Level and Managed Payout Policies; Court Upholds Poison Pill Rights Plan (May, 2007)


     
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