Our team was featured in the May 2025 issue of Emerging Manager Monthly in Matisse Blends Art, Science In Closed-End Fund Investing. The article was written by Lindsay Saienni and published on May 7th, 2025.
The article highlights both the Matisse Discounted Closed-End Fund Strategy (MDCEX) and Matisse Discounted Bond CEF Strategy (MDFIX), and features our own Joe Torkelson, MAC (Vice President of Investor Relations), Bryn Torkelson (President & CIO), and Eric Boughton, CFA (Portfolio Manager & Chief Analyst).
The full article is embedded below, or you can follow this link to read: Matisse Blends Art, Science In Closed-End Fund Investing
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