This article will update the Highland Global study, “Discount Statistics of Closed-end Funds,” (originally published in November 2005 and updated quarterly) for data relating to the third quarter of 2014. The original article with more details regarding discount statistics of closed-end funds is available at http://www.HighlandGlobal.com. Historic releases of our research can be accessed from our website.
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Morningstar’s Beta Data & Barron’s Closed-End Fund Data
Each quarter, Barron’s Online (www.barrons.com) reports statistics on publiclytraded closed-end funds. The statistics reported include the discount (or premium) of the market price from the fund’s net asset value (NAV), the 52-week average discount or premium, the fund’s objective, and various return measurements, etc. Morningstar (www.morningstar.com) reports various statistics on these funds, including metrics of beta. Highland Global then calculates the discount range, average, median, and standard deviation and reports these figures based on metrics such as the total data population, beta ranges, fund objectives, etc. The following table provides the summary of the analysis of closed-end funds with discounts to NAV during the third quarter 2014.

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