Jonathan Kitchen Written by Nick Ackerman, co-produced by Stanford Chemist. Nuveen Core Plus Impact Fund (NYSE:NPCT) provides investors with exposure to a diversified portfolio of mostly fixed-income investments. Since launching in 2021, the closed-end fund has been trading at a substantial discount to its net asset value per share. That isn’t too unheard of for…
Lemon_tm Written by Nick Ackerman, co-produced by Stanford Chemist. Nuveen Variable Rate Preferred & Income Fund (NYSE:NPFD) announced a sizeable distribution boost with their February announcement. This raise itself was shortly after a raise in the distribution announced back in December 2023 as well. Shortly after the fund’s inception, the Fed began hiking short-term interest…
zimmytws Written by Nick Ackerman, co-produced by Stanford Chemist. We’ve been covering a number of different municipal bond closed-end funds lately. That includes the non-leveraged Nuveen AMT-Free Municipal Value Fund (NUW), and we also wrote up an update on Invesco Value Municipal Income Trust (IIM), IIM being a leveraged muni CEF. Today, we are going…
ugurhan Navios Maritime Partners Overview Navios Maritime Partners (NYSE:NMM) is a diversified shipowner with exposure to three primary shipping segments: dry bulk, containerships, and crude/product tankers. The massive pro forma fleet (including newbuilds) is composed of 80 dry bulk vessels, 50 tankers, and 47 containerships, comprising one of the largest publicly traded fleets in the…
shapecharge Written by Nick Ackerman, co-produced by Stanford Chemist. The last time we covered BlackRock ESG Capital Allocation Term Trust (NYSE:ECAT) was over a year ago. However, we had shorter updates on a couple of occasions as I’ve been building up a position in this fund in my own portfolio. The biggest draw, besides the…
Sjo/iStock Unreleased via Getty Images Introduction V.F. Corporation (NYSE:VFC), the apparel and footwear company behind well-known brands like Vans, The North Face, Supreme, and Timberland, seems like it just cannot get any love from investors (aside from short sellers). Since early 2021, VFC stock has lost more than 80% of its value, largely due to…
pcess609 The investment objective of BlackRock ESG Capital Allocation Trust (NYSE:ECAT) is to provide both total return and income. The fund uses a highly flexible approach and has the ability to invest in both public and private markets across asset classes. They look to identify untapped growth opportunities tied to the evolution of ESG. My…
Bitcoin is a geographic chameleon. And, as such, this “magic internet money” that lives on a decentralized, permissionless system is changing the world right in front of us. One of Bitcoin’s many superpowers is that it takes on different aliases in various cultural environments. For many comparatively-wealthy North Americans, views on Bitcoin range from an…