John Scott

Portfolio Manager & EVP
Closed-End Fund Advisors

John is Portfolio Manager & EVP at Closed-End Fund Advisors, a Registered Investment Advisory Firm. He has specialized in CEF research and trading since 2001. John manages three of the firm's six portfolio models, writes regularly for "The Scott Letter: Closed-End Fund Report", is Editor of the firm's blog and founded the firm's weekly CEF data service "CEFA's Closed-End Fund Universe" in 2008.

Articles by John Scott
Predicting Dividend Changes
Closed-End Fund Advisors started tracking two new data points we thought would help us select and compare dividend risk for a closed-end fund. They are: Undistributed Net Investment Income Trend (UNII) and Earnings Trend. By taking the slope of the last three UNII and earnings figures for a fund, a trend is determined as “up”, “flat” or “down”
Closed-End Fund Activism Panel
It was my pleasure to moderate the “Closed-End Fund Activism” panel January 22 in New York at the Fourth Annual Activist Investment conference.
Contrarian Investing with Closed-End Equity Funds: Is Anything Still Cheap?
From our experience, if you are interested in closed-end funds, then you typically fall into two groups of investors: dividend seekers or contrarian investors.
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