Conservative Balanced Investment Strategy

Our Methodology for Conservative Balanced Management

Our conservative balanced strategy aims to grow invested capital over the long-term. It is designed to deliver current income and capital appreciation through an actively managed, diversified, value-oriented portfolio allocation. Karpus’s conservative balanced strategy typically allocates between 10% and 50% of portfolio assets in stocks and 50% to 90% of assets in a combination of bonds and cash.

Our conservative balanced portfolio is focused on capitalizing on the market inefficiencies of trading closed-end funds at discounts. However, we also utilize preferred securities, special purpose acquisition companies (pre-acquisition) (SPACs), exchange traded funds, and mutual funds.

Advantages of Our Balanced Management Strategy:

• A balanced mandate allows us to utilize securities that may be overlooked by managers with an equity or fixed income focus.
• We are able to make tactical decisions to allocate to securities/asset classes we find to be the most attractive.
• Dynamic rebalancing aids in keeping accounts in line with their desired asset allocation targets.