Fundsters interested in the closed-end side of the universe, particularly the preferred shares there, may want to look at today's
Wall Street Journal "Fund Track" column. Daisy Maxey
reports on
Standard & Poor's proposed new ratings criteria for the preferred shares of closed-end funds.
The WSJ article includes thoughts from Cecilia Gondor of Thomas J. Herzfeld Advisors, Henry Albulescu from S&P and Roger Merritt from Fitch Ratings, which revised its closed-end fund ratings criteria last year. The trio wonder whether some of the 220 closed-end funds potentially affected by the change (according to an S&P estimate) will choose to drop S&P instead of adjusting their portfolios or suffering a downgrade. 
Edited by:
Neil Anderson, Managing Editor
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