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What CEF Dividend Cuts Mean (It’s Not What You Expect)

Plenty of CEF investors worry about dividend cuts. And for sure, they’re something to keep in mind. But CEFs are not the same as stocks. When we invest in high-quality CEFs, there are a couple other things we need to remember when we catch wind of a cut: High-quality CEFs will sometimes reduce payouts by a small amount so they can redeploy capital into oversold bargains. I’ll have more to say on this in a moment, but the upshot is that it holds the potential for us to make more in gains from this move than we lose in dividends. As mentioned, these cuts are usually small, reducing the yield only a small amount (again, we’ll demonstrate this below). … Read more
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