ETF spotlight on PowerShares CEF Income Composite Portfolio ETF (NYSEArca: PCEF), part of an ongoing series.
Assets: $270.3 million.
Objective: The PowerShares CEF Income Composite Portfolio fund tries to reflect the performance of the S-Network Composite Closed-End Fund Index. The fund is a type of “fund-of-funds” in that it tracks U.S.-listed closed-end funds. [5 ETFs for Income]
Holdings: Top holdings include: Eaton Vance Tax-Managed Global Diversified Equity Income Fund 5.8%, AllianceBernstein Income Fund 3.8%, Eaton Vance Tax-Managed Diversified Equity Income Fund 3.0%, Eaton Vance Limited Duration Income Fund 2.9% and Nuveen Mutli-Strategy Income & Growth Fund 2.5%.
What You Should Know:
- Invesco PowerShares sponsors the fund.
- PCEF has an expense ratio of 1.62%.
- The fund holds 123 securities.
- Investment categories include: bonds 44.9%, high-yield 19.5% and option income 35.6%.
- The ETF is up 3.4% over the past month, up 12.9% over the last three months and up 6.8% over the past year.
- The fund is 3.3% above its 200-day exponential moving average.
- PCEF has a 12-month yield of 8.2%.
- Closed-end funds include a group of publicly traded investment companies that garner a fixed amount of capital through the initial public offering. Afterward, the fund is structured and listed like a normal stock.
The Latest News:
- “Investment trusts have outperformed open-ended funds over the long term, over most timescales, in almost all key comparable sectors,” Alan Brierley, analyst at Collins Stewart, said in a Financial Times report.
- Brierley, though, notes that asset growth in closed-end funds have been comparably smaller than mutual fund growth because of their greater volatility due to their stock market listings.
PowerShares CEF Income Composite Portfolio ETF
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Max Chen contributed to this article.