First Trust Specialty Finance and Financial Opportunities Fund Declares Its Quarterly Distribution of $0.0825 Per Share

WHEATON, In poor health., Might 10, 2022–(BUSINESS WIRE)–First Belief Specialty Finance and Monetary Alternatives Fund (the “Fund”) (NYSE: FGB) has declared the Fund’s repeatedly scheduled quarterly distribution of $0.0825 per share. The distribution shall be payable on Might 31, 2022, to shareholders of report as of Might 23, 2022. The ex-dividend date is predicted to be Might 20, 2022. The quarterly distribution data for the Fund seems under.

A portion of the distribution could also be handled as paid from sources apart from internet funding revenue, together with short-term capital acquire, long-term capital acquire and return of capital. The ultimate dedication of the supply and tax standing of all distributions paid in 2022 shall be made after the tip of 2022 and shall be offered on Type 1099-DIV.

The Fund is a diversified, closed-end administration funding firm that seeks to supply a excessive stage of present revenue. As a secondary goal, the Fund seeks to supply enticing complete return. The Fund pursues these funding goals by investing at the least 80% of its managed property in a portfolio of securities of specialty finance and different monetary corporations that the Fund’s funding sub-advisor believes supply enticing alternatives for revenue and capital appreciation.

First Belief Advisors L.P. (“FTA”) is a federally registered funding advisor and serves because the Fund’s funding advisor. FTA and its affiliate First Belief Portfolios L.P. (“FTP”), a FINRA registered broker-dealer, are privately-held corporations that present a wide range of funding companies. FTA has collective property below administration or supervision of roughly $201 billion as of April 29, 2022 via unit funding trusts, exchange-traded funds, closed-end funds, mutual funds and separate managed accounts. FTA is the supervisor of the First Belief unit funding trusts, whereas FTP is the sponsor. FTP can also be a distributor of mutual fund shares and exchange-traded fund creation items. FTA and FTP are primarily based in Wheaton, Illinois.

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Confluence Funding Administration LLC (“Confluence”), an SEC registered funding advisor, serves because the Fund’s funding sub-advisor. The Confluence workforce has greater than 500 years of mixed monetary expertise and 300 years of portfolio administration/analysis expertise, sustaining a monitor report that dates again to 1994. As of March 31, 2022, Confluence had $12.4 billion in property below administration and advisement (property below administration = $7.45 billion; property below advisement = $4.92 billion).

Principal Danger Elements: Previous efficiency is not any assurance of future outcomes. Funding return and market worth of an funding within the Fund will fluctuate. Shares, when bought, could also be price kind of than their unique value. There may be no assurance that the Fund’s funding goals shall be achieved. The Fund is probably not applicable for all traders.

Securities held by a fund, in addition to shares of a fund itself, are topic to market fluctuations attributable to elements corresponding to normal financial situations, political occasions, regulatory or market developments, adjustments in rates of interest and perceived tendencies in securities costs. Shares of a fund might decline in worth or underperform different investments on account of the chance of loss related to these market fluctuations. As well as, native, regional or international occasions corresponding to battle, acts of terrorism, unfold of infectious ailments or different public well being points, recessions, or different occasions might have a big unfavourable affect on a fund and its investments. Such occasions could have an effect on sure geographic areas, international locations, sectors and industries extra considerably than others. In February 2022, Russia invaded Ukraine which has prompted and will proceed to trigger important market disruptions and volatility inside the markets in Russia, Europe, and the USA. The hostilities and sanctions ensuing from these hostilities might have a big affect on sure fund investments in addition to fund efficiency. The outbreak of the respiratory illness designated as COVID-19 in December 2019 has prompted important volatility and declines in international monetary markets, which have prompted losses for traders. Whereas the event of vaccines has slowed the unfold of the virus and allowed for the resumption of “fairly” regular enterprise exercise in the USA, many international locations proceed to impose lockdown measures in an try to gradual the unfold. Moreover, there is no such thing as a assure that vaccines shall be efficient in opposition to rising variants of the illness.

Every fund is topic to dangers arising from varied operational elements, together with, however not restricted to, human error, processing and communication errors, errors of a fund’s service suppliers, counterparties or different third events, failed or insufficient processes and expertise or techniques failures. Though the funds and the Advisor search to scale back these operational dangers via controls and procedures, there is no such thing as a strategy to utterly defend in opposition to such dangers.

The Fund invests in enterprise improvement corporations (“BDCs”) which can be topic to a excessive diploma of dangers, together with administration’s means to satisfy the BDC’s funding goal, and to handle the BDC’s portfolio when the underlying securities are redeemed or bought, in periods of market turmoil and as traders’ perceptions relating to a BDC or its underlying investments change.

Investing in actual property funding trusts (“REITs”) entails sure distinctive dangers along with investing in the actual property trade usually. REITs are topic to rate of interest threat and the chance of default by lessees or debtors.

The Fund could put money into a wide range of different mortgage-related securities. Rising rates of interest have a tendency to increase the length of mortgage-related securities, making them extra delicate to adjustments in rates of interest, and should cut back the market worth of the securities. As well as, mortgage-related securities are topic to the chance that debtors could repay their mortgages prior to anticipated, significantly when rates of interest decline. This may cut back the Fund’s returns. The Fund’s investments in different asset-backed securities are topic to dangers much like these related to mortgage-backed securities, in addition to extra dangers related to the character of the property and the servicing of these property.

As a result of the Fund is concentrated within the financials sector, it will likely be extra prone to hostile financial or regulatory occurrences affecting this sector, corresponding to adjustments in rates of interest, availability and value of capital funds, and competitors.

Use of leverage can lead to extra threat and value, and may enlarge the impact of any losses.

The dangers of investing within the Fund are spelled out within the shareholder report and different regulatory filings.

The knowledge introduced will not be supposed to represent an funding suggestion for, or recommendation to, any particular individual. By offering this data, First Belief will not be endeavor to present recommendation in any fiduciary capability inside the which means of ERISA, the Inner Income Code or another regulatory framework. Monetary professionals are accountable for evaluating funding dangers independently and for exercising impartial judgment in figuring out whether or not investments are applicable for his or her shoppers.

The Fund’s each day closing New York Inventory Trade worth and internet asset worth per share in addition to different data may be discovered at https://www.ftportfolios.com or by calling 1-800-988-5891.

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