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Business Development Companies (BDCs) are firms that give loans to small and mid-sized companies at relatively higher rates and often grab debt or equity stakes in those companies.

With rates rising, the regional banking crisis bothering the lending market and the U.S. economy chugging along, business development companies have every reason to outperform.

Lipper Financial Services ETFs recorded their largest weekly outflow of the year over the past fund flows week (-$1.4 billion). On top of the bank failures, market participants are worried about the l

BDCZ: This BDC ETN Is Not Worth The Risks

BDCs have been easily outperforming other higher-yield sectors including REITs (short and longer term) and readers have been asking if there are any good ETF that track the sector. This article discus

Plus, a number of index changes occurred last week.

Most of the investments by business development companies take the form of loans with adjustable interest rates. My projection for the April BDCX dividend results in a current yield above 15%.

This is the second part out of a series that's going to span over five articles. Whether you admit/acknowledge it or not, many (if not most) RICs are swimming n

The recent market crash is a real crisis for retirees. High-yield sectors have dropped even more than other stocks. We live and we learn. We share the lessons f

Drop in market value appears similar to 2008. But the big question: How secure is the distribution flow? Will our economy hold together? Tweaking and de-risking

Losses in the 2x Leveraged ETNs, based on mREITs, closed-end funds, business development companies and MLPs among others, have been catastrophic. Many of the 2x

BDC prices got hammered this month for the reasons discussed below. At one point the average BDC was trading at almost a 60% discount to book value. BDCs have s

The only thing that I can be relatively sure of is that the mREITs will not be indefinitely trading at very steep discounts to book value. Either the book value

This article will look at the 10 highest-yielding ETFs today and compare them to a simple balanced equity and bond portfolio. The extreme high-yield portfolio e

UBS AG announced today that it has filed a registration statement on Form F-4 to register proposed exchange offers (“Exchange Offers”) for eight ETRACS Series A ETNs (collectively, the “Series A