{"id":57497,"date":"2023-09-06T07:03:18","date_gmt":"2023-09-06T11:03:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ifintechworld.com\/news\/isd-boost-your-income-with-this-10-yielding-conservative-cef\/"},"modified":"2023-09-06T07:03:22","modified_gmt":"2023-09-06T11:03:22","slug":"isd-boost-your-income-with-this-10-yielding-conservative-cef","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ifintechworld.com\/?p=57497","title":{"rendered":"ISD: Boost Your Income With This 10% Yielding Conservative CEF"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Thesis<\/h2>\n

The PGIM High Yield Bond Fund (NYSE:ISD<\/span>) is a fixed income closed end fund. The vehicle focuses on U.S. high yield bonds, and seeks to provide a high level of current income with its 10% yield. The fund comes from a very reputable platform, namely PGIM Investments, which is part of Prudential.<\/span><\/p>\n

Fixed income has been hit hard in the past two years by the rise in risk free rates. However, as rates start to peak and funding costs stabilize, it is worth looking at conservatively built CEFs which have provided very robust historic returns. ISD is one of them:<\/p>\n

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In the past 3 years the fund has outperformed much better known names such as the PIMCO Dynamic Income Fund (PDI) and the abrdn Income Credit Strategies Fund (ACP). We can see ISD producing a total return in excess of 16% during that time-frame, while PDI and ACP show total returns sub 6%. That is almost a 3x difference.<\/span><\/p>\n

In this article we are going to look at ISD’s composition, its structure in today’s funding environment and its forward in the context of fixed income CEFs.<\/p>\n

Analytics<\/h2>\n