Chamois16

Understanding Closed-End Funds

Sorry for the PS, but my response was truncated. The point was that if one is going to give a tutorial on "understanding closed-end funds," why not accurately make the distinction? With the explosion of "managed index" ETF, financial advisors who fail to make the important distinctions among investment vehicles and the difficulty in understanding why CEF prices, unlike those of mutual funds, stray significantly, and for good reason, from NAVs, investors have enough problem reconciling the conflicting statements by experts in the field. JMO as always