John Cole 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.

[email protected] http://www.cefadvisors.com/

John’s Recent activity

How to Analyze Destructive Return of Capital for Closed-End Funds

Oct 10, 2013

For many years closed-end fund (CEF) investors have looked at return of capital (RoC) in CEFs either as negative, because it can be thought of as eroding the fund’s net asset value (NAV), or as positive because it...

Predicting Dividend Changes

Feb 13, 2013

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 Earning...