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Steven Bavaria, from Inside the Income Factory, discusses credit assets like high-yield bonds, senior loans, and BDCs for stable, high-yield income, favoring closed-end funds for their resilience and discounts. Expense ratios for BDC ETFs like PBDC appear high due to accounting rules, but actual fund expenses are low—professional management adds only about 0.4%.

CHARLOTTE, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Board of Trustees of Barings Participation Investors (NYSE: MPV) (the "Trust") met on August 14, 2025, and would like to report its preliminary financial results for the second quarter of 2025. Financial Highlights(1) Three Months Ended June 30, 2025 Three Months Ended March 31, 2025   Total Amount Per Share(5) Total Amount Per Share(4) Net investment incom...

MPV and MCI have been at the top (#1 and #2) of high yield closed-end funds for many years. But there's more; by bunching up their four "quarterly" dividends into a 7-month period, MPV or MCI provide their investors a 5-month "dividend holiday" During the 5-month "dividend holiday," I can rotate into other high-yield funds like BGH, XFLT, or EIC to boost annual income.

CHARLOTTE, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Board of Trustees of Barings Participation Investors (NYSE: MPV) (the "Trust") met on May 15, 2025, and would like to report its preliminary financial results for the first quarter of 2025. Financial Highlights(1) Three Months Ended March 31, 2025 Three Months Ended December 31, 2024   Total Amount Per Share(5) Total Amount Per Share(4) Net investment incom...

Concerns about "capitulation" seem more appropriate to equity than to credit investing, given the wider swings - up and down - inherent in stocks. Credit investing has more of a floor under the risk we are taking, even after you factor in the likelihood of occasional defaults. Fortunately, we have lots of data through economic cycles and market crashes of all types, to help us model credit inve...

CHARLOTTE, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Board of Trustees of Barings Participation Investors (NYSE: MPV) (the "Trust") met on February 27, 2025, and would like to report its preliminary financial results for the fourth quarter of 2024. Financial Highlights(1) Three Months Ended December 31, 2024 Three Months Ended September 30, 2023   Total Amount Per Share(5) Total Amount Per Share(4) Net invest...