Fed Keeps Rates Steady, Ups Inflation Target: How are Banks Affected?

The Fed raises the inflation target and cuts growth projections due to Trump's tariffs, dimming the outlook for banks like JPM, BAC, C, CMA and KEY.

Zacks Investment Research • Mar 20, 2025

NIM: Quality Tax-Advantaged Yield To Get Excited About

Most tax-advantaged and tax-exempt funds are not appealing to us due to low yields or high leverage. Nuveen Select Maturity Municipal Fund focuses on tax-exempt income and capital preservation, investing at least 80% in municipal securities exempt from federal tax. The fund's lack of leverage is rare in municipal CEFs, making it suitable for our conservative investment community.

Seeking Alpha • Mar 14, 2025

CEF Weekly Review: Tender Offers Keep Generating Alpha

We review the CEF market valuation and performance through the second week of February and highlight recent market action. Most CEF sectors rose, driven by tighter credit spreads and higher stocks, with EM Equity and Preferreds leading month-to-date gains. Virtus Total Return Fund's tender offer resulted in a high 31% pro-ration factor, generating a 6% annualized alpha, highlighting its generous buy-back terms.

Seeking Alpha • Feb 22, 2025

Municipal Update: Key Themes And Allocation Tilts

We discuss key Muni themes, including tariffs, federal funding freeze, tax exemption, and more. Muni valuations remain attractive, particularly the value of the tax exemption. We highlight the four Muni buckets where we see value.

Seeking Alpha • Feb 21, 2025

Nuveen Select Maturities Municipal Fund Declares Capital Gain Distribution

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Today, the Nuveen Select Maturities Municipal Fund (NYSE: NIM) has declared an additional cash distribution with the record, ex-dividend and payable date outlined below. The following dates apply to today's distribution declaration for the following municipal closed-end fund: Record Date   December 13, 2024 Ex-Dividend Date   December 13, 2024 Payable Date   December 31, 2024 Taxable Per Share Distribution Amount Short-Term Long-Term Ticker Exchange Fund Name Capital.

Business Wire • Dec 2, 2024

Encouraging Signs For Mortgage REITs

Mortgage REITs (mREITs) are becoming more attractive due to reduced RMBS spreads, alleviated negative convexity, lower cost of capital, and a positive carry from an uninverted yield curve. The macro environment shift suggests strong 3Q24 earnings for mREITs, making common shares potentially opportunistic and bolstering preferred dividend payments. Despite historical weaknesses, mREITs like AGNC could be worth considering at moderate discounts, with potential trading opportunities around earnings releases.

Seeking Alpha • Oct 22, 2024

Nuveen Closed-End Funds Declare Distributions

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Several Nuveen closed-end funds have declared distributions. These funds represent investment strategies for investors seeking diversified sources of cash flow to prepare for and sustain their retirement income needs. For further information regarding fund distributions, including earnings, undistributed net investment income, and notices, please visit www.nuveen.com/cef. Additionally, several funds have announced distribution increases of up to 71%. The distribution.

Business Wire • Jun 3, 2024

Nuveen Closed-End Funds Declare Distributions and Updates to Distribution Policies

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nuveen Closed-End Funds today announced that the Board of Trustees of the Funds has approved the regular monthly and quarterly distributions. In addition, the Board of Trustees has approved updated distribution polices described below under “Monthly & Quarterly Distributions” for The Nuveen Preferred & Income Opportunities Fund (NYSE: JPC), Nuveen Preferred and Income Term Fund (NYSE: JPI), Nuveen Variable Rate Preferred & Income Fund (NYSE: NPFD), Nuveen.

Business Wire • Dec 1, 2023

Nuveen Municipal Closed-End Funds Announce Distribution Updates

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Today, the Board of Trustees of certain Nuveen municipal closed-end funds declared regular monthly distribution rates and updated certain distribution policies. Additionally, several leveraged municipal closed-end funds have announced distribution rate increases of between 7% and 24% to deliver higher monthly cash flows to shareholders. These changes are intended to help support secondary market trading in fund shares and improve each fund's discount to NAV. It is ant.

Business Wire • Oct 23, 2023

These 5 CEF Types Are Less Vulnerable To The Spike In Short-Term Rates

The market environment of high volatility and rising short-term rates has lowered the income-generating capacity of most CEFs. In this article, we highlight the five types of CEFs whose incomes have either been unaffected or have actually improved this year.

Seeking Alpha • Oct 4, 2022