VMSB yields 1.67% · ARCC yields 10.82%● Live data
📍 ARCC pulled ahead of the other in Year 1
Combined, VMSB + ARCC cover 0 of 12 months — good coverage
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VMSB aims for high current income and long-term capital appreciation. The fund actively invests in income-producing bonds, which may include corporate and government bonds, including from emerging markets, loans, asset-backed securities, and money market instruments. The fund has broad flexibility across debt instruments and derivatives, and its average duration generally ranges from 0 to 10 years, based on an interest rate risk profile. Securities may be of any credit quality. The fund can use various trading strategies, such as delayed delivery, forward commitment (including TBA trades), buy backs, and dollar rolls. It can invest in derivatives for hedging, tactical allocation, or to enhance returns. Management of the portfolio combines top-down macroeconomic views with bottom-up analysis, considering sector allocation, security selection, duration, and yield curve positioning. The team utilizes proprietary research, quantitative models, stress testing, and ongoing risk management.
Full VMSB Calculator →Ares Capital Corporation is a business development company specializing in acquisition, recapitalization, mezzanine debt, restructurings, rescue financing, and leveraged buyout transactions of middle market companies. It also makes growth capital and general refinancing. It prefers to make investments in companies engaged in the basic and growth manufacturing, business services, consumer products, health care products and services, and information technology service sectors. The fund will also consider investments in industries such as restaurants, retail, oil and gas, and technology sectors. It focuses on investments in Northeast, Mid-Atlantic, Southeast and Southwest regions from its New York office, the Midwest region, from the Chicago office, and the Western region from the Los Angeles office. The fund typically invests between $20 million and $200 million and a maximum of $400 million in companies with an EBITDA between $10 million and $250 million. It makes debt investments between $10 million and $100 million The fund invests through revolvers, first lien loans, warrants, unitranche structures, second lien loans, mezzanine debt, private high yield, junior capital, subordinated debt, and non-control preferred and common equity. The fund also selectively considers third-party-led senior and subordinated debt financings and opportunistically considers the purchase of stressed and discounted debt positions. The fund prefers to be an agent and/or lead the transactions in which it invests. The fund also seeks board representation in its portfolio companies.
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