Investment Ideas

Consistency Through Uncharted Waters

February 6, 2024

We have experienced historic monetary policy shifts and their impact on markets over recent months. While changing interest rates can create challenges for traditional bond strategies, Calamos Market Neutral Income Fund (CMNIX) is designed to address these challenges, allowing investors to enhance their fixed income allocations.

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CMNIX: All Weather Through the Decades

March 1, 2023

As one of the oldest liquid alternative funds, CMNIX has demonstrated its merits through a variety of market and interest rate environments. In every decade since the fund’s inception, diversifying a traditional bond portfolio with a 25% allocation to CMNIX could have provided meaningful risk-adjusted outperformance.

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How CMNIX Has Battled Volatility Over Its 31 Years

May 23, 2022

In Calamos Market Neutral Income Fund's 31 years, all but three have ended with positive returns. Intra-year drawdowns, however, have occurred every year. In fact, there have been six years—19% of the time—when the drawdown exceeded 5% and the year finished positive.

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What Could An Income and Equity Alternative Do for a 60/40 Portfolio? Meet the Half Caff

March 25, 2022

To rebalance back to a 60% allocation of unhedged long-only equity and a 40% allocation likely to generate just the skinniest of fixed income returns is to ignore today’s environment. Instead, let us introduce you to the diversification benefits of our blend of equal parts fixed income alternative Calamos Market Neutral Income Fund (CMNIX) and equity alternative Calamos Phineus Long/Short Fund (CPLIX).

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