The Investment Company Institute counts 482 closed-end investment companies.

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The law prohibits all publicly-traded companies, except for investment companies (other than closed-end investment companies), from disclosing information to securities market professionals, such as securities analysts or institutional investors, before disclosing the information to the public.

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The next step was for this closed-end investment company to become an operating company.

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Rubenstein then suggested Carlyle's new closed-end investment fund as a low-risk option and a "good investment, " Huffington contends.

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Patrick Galley : Closed-end funds are a unique investment vehicle because most of them have yield associated with them.

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We also excluded non-U.S. stocks, blind pools, real estate investment trusts, limited partnerships and closed-end funds.

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Such income producing strategies may include bonds, dividend paying equities, mutual funds, closed-end funds, exchange-traded funds ( ETFs) and unit investment trusts (UITs), to name a few.

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