If you’re looking to snap up some investments at a bargain amid the recent market turmoil, check out closed-end funds.
Data from Closed-End Fund Advisors, a specialized investment firm that tracks the industry, show that closed-end funds that invest in tax-free municipal bonds are now at their biggest average discounts in at least 25 years — including during the global financial crisis of 2007-09 and the COVID panic.
Meanwhile, other funds and institutions that own closed-ends have until Oct. 31 to sell any losing investments and lock in their losses for their tax year, allowing them to use those losses to offset capital gains elsewhere. That’s produced extra selling pressure on the stocks of the worst-performing closed ends, driving down the prices even in recent weeks.Closed-end funds are regulated mutual funds, much like the better-known funds and exchange-traded funds in your 401 or IRA.
You can’t just look at the size of a discount to find out whether it’s really a deal. A bad fund is still a bad fund even if it’s on sale. As Erik Herzfeld says, many times the big discounts are fully warranted. That said, there are bargains around. “The closed-end space has so many opportunities if you know where to look,” says Herzfeld, adding that “there’s a lot of irrationality” in the market.
Among taxable bond funds, the Western Asset Investment Grade Income Fund PAI, which mostly invests in corporate bonds, was just over 10% below net asset value. The AllianceBernstein Global High Income Fund AWF, which invests in bonds below investment grade, was 9% below, and the Templeton Emerging Markets Income Fund TEI was a remarkable 16% below.
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