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I have a large position in OAKBX and I am going to reduce it. I called them and registered my dissatisfaction with how they announced Studzinski's "retirement" after a year when the fund could not get its bond sleeve to produce anything. Wasn't ther…
I would check out the Guggenheim Frontier Markets ETF (FRN) and the MS Frontier Markets CEF (FFD). Each fund replicates an entirely different index which makes them hard to compare. FRN, for instance, has big relative weightings in Latin America in …
I have owned all four affected funds over many years. Our only remaining position is in BRUSX. I realize that I have been sucked into the fallacy of holding the closed fund simply because it's closed or because I'm too cheap to pay the fund supermar…