Lipper Closed-End Funds Summary: December 2014
Lipper Insight at Thomson Reuters - Seeking Alpha - Tue Jan 13, 12:54PM CST
By Tom Roseen In December the U.S. market took investors on a wild ride. Toward month-end the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the S&P 500 Index posted their thirty-eighth and fifty-second record closes for the year, respectively. A strong...
GCE: 17.44 (unch), CEFL: 22.00 (+0.35), YYY: 21.30 (+0.14), PCEF: 23.78 (+0.10)
ETF Deathwatch For December 2014: A Zombie Milestone
Ron Rowland - at Seeking Alpha - Tue Dec 09, 6:06PM CST
The ETF Deathwatch membership roll contains four fewer products this month. Ten new names joined the list, and fourteen came off. Ten of the removals were due to improved health, while the other four ceased operations in November. The overall count...
IBDH: 101.05 (+0.13), CCX: 16.28 (unch), GCE: 17.44 (unch), ADRU: 23.48 (+0.56), SUBD: 25.97 (+0.34), EUDG: 23.86 (+0.58), IBDF: 100.76 (+0.36), EMSA: 65.54 (unch), EVAL: 43.69 (+0.45), CNDA: 16.99 (+0.35), TYBS: 21.87 (+0.11), FMB: 52.33 (-0.04)
Building Better Portfolios In A Low Return World
Columbia Management - Seeking Alpha - Mon Nov 17, 2:12PM CST
By Anwiti Bahuguna, Ph.D., Senior Portfolio Manager Today’s low return world presents challenges to investors more than at any time in the last few decades. Financial markets have dramatically recovered since the lows seen in March 2009...
RLY: 26.56 (+0.40), IYLD: 25.97 (+0.20), MDIV: 21.32 (+0.18), CEFL: 22.00 (+0.35), HGI: 17.27 (+0.36), DVHL: 24.18 (+0.49), INKM: 32.97 (+0.34), YDIV: 19.03 (+0.32), GAL: 36.04 (+0.34), YYY: 21.30 (+0.14), DVHI: 24.50 (+0.22), EPRO: 31.24 (+0.52), AOR: 41.25 (+0.36), GYLD: 24.33 (+0.18), FDIV: 50.20 (+0.11), GCE: 17.44 (unch), DWAT: 10.87 (+0.19), GIVE: 64.29 (-0.06), DBIZ: 25.86 (+0.45), MATH: 31.52 (+0.43), GTAA: 25.59 (+0.13), CVY: 22.39 (+0.28), PCEF: 23.78 (+0.10)