BGX vs ECF Comparison

Blackstone Long-Short Credit Income Fund is a diversified, closed-end management investment company. The fund's primary investment objective is to seek high current income, with a secondary objective to seek preservation of capital, consistent with its primary goal of high current income. It seeks to achieve its investment objectives by employing a dynamic long-short strategies in a diversified portfolio of loans and fixed-income instruments of predominantly U.S. corporate issuers, including first and second-lien secured loans (Secured Loans) and high-yield corporate bonds of varying maturities.

Ellsworth Growth and Income Fund Ltd operate as a closed-end, diversified management investment company. Its investment objective is to provide income and the potential for capital appreciation, which objectives the Fund considers to be relatively equal over the long term due to the nature of the securities in which it invests. The company invests in convertible and equity securities. It invests in various sectors, such as healthcare, financial services, computer software and services, energy and utilities, real estate investment trusts, semiconductors, telecommunications, business services, food and beverage, consumer products, transportation, consumer services among others.