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February 10, 2017

CEF Advisors Launches 25 Indexes to Cover the Entire $265 Billion US Listed Closed-End Fund (CEF) and Business Development Company (BDC) Universe

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CEF Advisors’ launches 25 indexes to cover the entire closed-end fund (CEF) and business development company (BDC) universe. The indexes cover both bond and equity sector indexes as well as diversified portfolio objective indexes for example; the High Income Index and the Tax-Sensitive Income Index. The indexes are priced daily with data since 12/31/16, however, we are working by quarter-end to offer index data from 12/31/2011 to present as we have the data in our internally collected CEFData.com research system and database launched in 2012.

Data will be available on the indexes for additional benchmarking purposes including weighted discount, yield, leverage, duration, beta and other metrics for the underlying constituent funds. The indexes will be rebalanced quarterly.
The indexes were developed to help CEF Advisors monitor our separately managed accounts and model portfolio service as well as help our research/data clients and peers better benchmark themselves. John Cole Scott, CIO at CEF Advisors said, “We are pleased to offer better visualization of our data collection and production efforts which now has five years in internally collected data. We believe our ability to show the indexes’ weighted data, in addition to the typical performance calculations should help individuals and investment professionals properly benchmark their CEF/BDC allocations.”
The firm’s index project can be monitored via:   www.cefdata.com/index. They offer a performance table and a data table webpage summarizing each index. Clicking on each indexes’ name opens a detailed page containing the following information: 1. Index Methodology, 2. Market Price and Net Asset Value Performance, 3. Discounts, 4. Data Characteristics, 5. Holdings’ Asset Allocation, 6. Constituent Funds, and 7. Daily index market price and net asset value pricing.
Diversified Portfolio Indexes:
  1. 12 Major Sectors: http://cefdata.com/index/details/412/
  2. High Income: http://cefdata.com/index/details/404/
  3. Equity Income: http://cefdata.com/index/details/415/
  4. 60 / 40 Balanced (w/ BDCs): http://cefdata.com/index/details/405/
  5. Tax-Sensitive Income: http://cefdata.com/index/details/402/
  6. Taxable Bond & BDC: http://cefdata.com/index/details/403/
  7. Discount CEF/BDC: http://cefdata.com/index/details/413/
  8. Premium CEF/BDC: http://cefdata.com/index/details/414/
CEF Advisors uses CEFs as the building blocks for an entire portfolio, so wanted a better way to track their progress for clients. Previous portfolio style indexes seemed only focused on taxable bond and equity based CEF indexes and did not offer tracking for thematic investments.

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January 23, 2017

John Cole Scott Quoted in Barron’s Article: “11 REIT Plays for Income and Inflation Protection”

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Please read the article here and see what John Cole Scott likes in REIT Closed-End Funds. Subscription may be required.

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http://www.barrons.com/articles/11-reit-plays-for-income-and-inflation-protection-1484976806

January 12, 2017

CEF Advisors’ Quarterly Closed-End Fund and BDC Universe Update, IPO Review & Outlook

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On January 11th we held our Quarterly Closed-End Fund and BDC Universe Update, cef-and-bdc-review-and-outlook-for-4th-quarter-2016Outlook, IPO Review & Outlook.

Please watch the replay or download the slides to see what trends we covered in the CEF industry including:

*Discounts & Discount Trends
*Yield and Yield Trends
*Dividend Changes
*Last Quarter’s and Recent Peer-group performance (NAV and Market Price).
*UNII, Earnings and Return of Capital (RoC) Trends
* Recent CEF IPO’s
* Liquidity & Liquidity Trends
* Activist Updates & Trends
* CEF Deaths & Mergers
* NAV vs. Market Price Volatility
* New CEF Universe Data
* 2017 Outlook
* Pre-submitted & Live Q&A

Replay Link
Slides in PDF Format
January 11, 2017

Discounts As “Leverage”

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One way to look at closed-end fund discounts is to view them as “free leverage,” says jcs-discounts-as-leverage
John Cole Scott of CEF Advisors in Investius News.
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December 5, 2016

John Cole Scott Quoted in Two Barron’s Articles (subscription may be required)

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We were pleased to help Barron’s cover the closed-end barrons-logo

fund sector on October 22, and December 3, 2016.

Click Here to see John Cole Scott quoted in Barron’s Article A Closed-End Fund Shopping List.

http://www.barrons.com/articles/a-closed-end-fund-shopping-list-1480745760

Click Here to see John Cole quoted in Barron/s Article It’s Time to Take a Fresh Look at MLPs.

http://www.barrons.com/articles/its-time-to-take-a-fresh-look-at-mlps-1477111152

 

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October 12, 2016

The Street’s Greg Greenberg Interviewed CEFAs’ John Cole Scott about Four Closed-End Funds to Feel Good About Even if Rates Rise

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JCS-Street-2016-04The Street’s Gregg Greenberg spoke with

special guest and nationally recognized

closed-end fund expert John Cole Scott

about four closed-end funds that are

poised to do well even if rates rise. John discussed the MFS High

Income Municipal Trust (CXE), the Calamos Global Dynamic Income Fund

(CHW), The Cushing MLP Total Return Fund (SRV) and the Saratoga

Investment Corp. (SAR).

Watch the interview by clicking below.

https://www.thestreet.com/video/13847442/four-closed-end-funds-to-feel-good-about-even-if-rates-rise.html

October 8, 2016

CEF Advisors’ Quarterly Closed-End Fund and BDC Universe Update, Outlook, IPO Review & Outlook

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2016-3rd-quarter-review-and-outlook-010917On October 6th we held our Quarterly Closed-End Fund and BDC Universe Update, Outlook, IPO Review & Outlook.

Please watch the replay or download the slides to see what trends we covered in the CEF industry including:

*Discounts & Discount Trends
*Yield and Yield Trends
*Dividend Changes
*Last Quarter’s and Recent Peer-group performance (NAV and Market Price).
*UNII, Earnings and Return of Capital (RoC) Trends
* Recent CEF IPO’s
* Liquidity & Liquidity Trends
* Activist Updates & Trends
* CEF Deaths & Mergers
* NAV vs. Market Price Volatility
* New CEF Universe Data
* 2016 Outlook
* Pre-submitted & Live Q&A

Replay Link
Slides in PDF Format
October 6, 2016

Chuck Jaffe, Sr. Columnist for Market Watch, interviews John Cole Scott for the MoneyLife Market Call

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Chuck Jaffe, a senior columnist formarketwatch-logo-1

MarketWatch, interviewed John Cole

Scott on October 4, 2016. Click on the link below to listen to John give insights on closed-end funds.

Chuck Jaffe, Sr. Columnist for Market Watch, interviews John Cole Scott for the MoneyLife Market Call

 

July 15, 2016

CEFAdvisor’s 2Q 2016 Research Call Replay and Slides

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On July 13th we held our Quarterly Closed-End Fund and BDC Universe Update, Outlook, IPO Review & Outlook.

Please watch the replay or download the slides to see what trends we covered in the CEF industry including:

*Discounts & Discount Trends

*Yield and Yield Trends

*Dividend Changes

*Last Quarter’s and YTD Peer-group performance (NAV and Market Price).

*UNII, Earnings and Return of Capital (RoC) Trends

*Recent IPO’s

*Liquidity & Liquidity Trends

*Activist Updates & Trends

*Deaths & Mergers

*NAV vs. Market Price Vitality

*New CEF Universe Data

*Expanded Business Development Company CEF Review and Commentary

*Next Quarters Outlook

*Your Pre-submitted & Live Q&A

Replay Link
Slides in PDF Format
June 3, 2016

AfterMarket Webinar – A Success Story

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john-cole-scott-ledermark-interviewMay 23, 2016

LederMark’s Gerri Leder spoke with special guest and nationally recognized closed-end fund expert John Cole Scott about the successful growth of CEFA, 103 percent, since 2010. Sharing his best practices, John provides insights on how to grow your RIA.

“Leverage your knowledge” ~John Cole Scott

Watch Interview:

http://ledermark.com/2016/05/23/after-market-webinar-success-story/

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