{"id":40245,"date":"2023-07-25T11:06:37","date_gmt":"2023-07-25T15:06:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ifintechworld.com\/investing\/this-blackrock-indicator-is-our-key-to-a-7-trillion-cash-wave\/"},"modified":"2023-07-25T11:06:39","modified_gmt":"2023-07-25T15:06:39","slug":"this-blackrock-indicator-is-our-key-to-a-7-trillion-cash-wave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ifintechworld.com\/?p=40245","title":{"rendered":"This \u2018BlackRock Indicator\u2019 Is Our Key To A $7-Trillion Cash Wave"},"content":{"rendered":"
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We\u2019re in a weird time where interest rates are at (or at least near) a peak\u2014but most people haven\u2019t realized it yet. When they finally come around, one group of closed-end funds (CEFs) is likely to soar (and pay us double-digit dividends, too).<\/p>\n

I\u2019m talking about bond funds, and the \u201cdouble-digit dividends\u201d part is already well underway, with yields on some corporate-bond CEFs breaking over 12%. (An added bonus: most bond CEFs pay dividends monthly, too.)<\/p>\n

By the way, it\u2019s not just me talking here: it\u2019s the world\u2019s biggest asset manager, a firm that, due to its sheer size and deep research resources, has access to next-level insight no one else can compete with.<\/p>\n

A $9.4-Trillion Bond Player Is Telling Us to Buy Bond CEFs Now<\/h2>\n

That would be BlackRock
\n BLK
\n <\/fbs-ticker>, which manages an astounding $9.4 trillion of assets. On the last earnings call, BlackRock President Rob Kapito said something interesting, pointing to \u201caround seven trillion in money-market accounts that is ready when people feel that rates have peaked to flood the fixed-income market, and we need to position ourselves to capture that.\u201d<\/p>\n

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In other words, there are a lot of savers that BlackRock wants to move from putting their money in high-interest savings accounts into funds holding municipal and corporate bonds.<\/p>\n

Obviously, BlackRock is pitching to make more money here, but they aren\u2019t the only ones to benefit\u2014it\u2019s a great strategy for savers, too, because as interest rates decline, bond prices will rise.<\/p>\n

At the same time, rates on high-interest savings accounts will fall, pushing more of that \u201csidelined\u201d cash into the fixed-income market, as Kapito says.<\/p>\n

And before you ask, we favor bond CEFs because we want human managers managing our portfolios, not algorithms, because deep analysis is critical to successful bond investing (as are the personal connections only an active manager can provide; they get us access to the best new issues when they\u2019re released).<\/p>\n

That\u2019s why investing with a firm like BlackRock is a great strategy with corporate bonds. But you don\u2019t have to go with this dominant firm: other, smaller managers have strong histories, too:<\/p>\n

Here you can see the Calamos Dynamic Convertible and Income Fund (CCD)<\/strong> and the BlackRock Multi-Sector Income Trust (BIT
\n
\n BIT
\n <\/fbs-ticker>),<\/strong> two corporate bond\u2013focused CEFs with big yields: CCD pays out 11.1% and BIT pays out 10.3%. So for every $10,000 in these funds, you\u2019re getting about $87.50 a month on average, every month. That\u2019s a six-figure income on just a million dollars.<\/p>\n

Not only are these funds paying out large income streams, but you can see they handily beat holding long-term US Treasuries (the light blue line above, down 7.2% in the last five years) and the benchmark high-yield bond ETF, the SPDR Bloomberg High Yield Bond ETF (JNK
\n
\n JNK
\n <\/fbs-ticker>),<\/strong> up just 13.3%.<\/p>\n

And the better bargain here is somewhat surprising: BIT, despite its BlackRock pedigree, trades at a slight discount to net asset value (NAV, or the value of its underlying bond portfolio) as I write this, while the lower-profile Calamos fund sports a 2.7% premium. This just goes to show the mispricings that crop up regularly in the CEF market.<\/p>\n

A Proven Record of Safety<\/h2>\n

But what if we have a recession, like the one everyone expected last year? According to Moody\u2019s, the default rate on bonds would rise to 4.9% in 2024 because (you guessed it) bad economic times will make companies insolvent. That sounds high, but let\u2019s dig in deeper.<\/p>\n

That 4.9% actually relates to speculative-grade bonds,<\/em> not all bonds. Most people don\u2019t know that! They see the headline and, understandably, grow concerned. But only 23% of bonds are speculative grade, according to S&P Global. That means the economic worst-case-scenario is that 1.13% of all bonds default. To put that in context, five of CCD\u2019s 455 bonds would default, for a total loss of NAV of about 2%.<\/p>\n

So yes, CCD could see its portfolio decline 2% in the next two years due to defaults. But even that unlikely scenario would be dwarfed by the double-digit income stream CCD shareholders would be getting.<\/p>\n

If you want even more safety, however, there are other options, such as investment-grade corporate bond funds that avoid distressed debt altogether. The PIMCO Corporate & Income Opportunity Fund (PTY) <\/strong>is one such example, and it has an enviable track record, booking nearly 900% profits since inception back in 2002.<\/p>\n

The hitch? PIMCO is perhaps the only CEF manager with more cachet than BlackRock\u2014cachet that translates into higher premiums on their funds. And right now, PTY sports a 30% premium. This one never trades at a discount, but now would be a good time to keep it on your watch list\u2014and consider a buy when that premium drops, say below its five-year average of 23%.<\/p>\n

Michael Foster is the Lead Research Analyst for <\/em>Contrarian Outlook<\/em>. For more great income ideas, click here for our latest report \u201c<\/em>Indestructible Income: 5 Bargain Funds with Steady 10.4% Dividends.<\/em>\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Disclosure: none<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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