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These 2 Unusual CEF Moves Can Boost (or Slash!) Your Profits

There’s an obvious reason why we love closed-end funds (CEFs): the dividends! CEFs’ payouts average around 7% as I write this, and there are plenty paying well into the double digits. One fund we’ll touch on below, for example, yields more than 16%. A payout like that gets you $2,000 a month in dividends on just $150,000 invested. But, as we often discuss in my CEF Insider service , when picking CEFs, we always need to look past those big yields. We also need to examine the discount to net asset value (NAV, or the value of the fund’s portfolio) because buying a CEF at an unusually wide discount can net us strong price upside as that discount bounces back to normal, pulling the price up with it.… Read more
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