BXMX vs MSDL Comparison

Nuveen S&P 500 Buy-Write Income Fund is a diversified closed-ended management investment company based in the United States. Its investment objective is to seek attractive total returns with less volatility. The fund invests its managed assets in a diversified equity portfolio that seeks to substantially replicate price movements of the S&P 500 Index. It also uses an index options strategy of writing (selling) index call options in seeking to moderate the volatility of returns relative to an all-equity portfolio. Its revenue is generated mainly from interest and dividend income.

Morgan Stanley Direct Lending Fund is a fund whose investment objective is to achieve attractive risk-adjusted returns via current income and to a lesser extent, capital appreciation by investing predominantly in directly originated senior secured term loans issued by U.S. middle-market companies backed by private equity sponsors. It invests predominantly in directly originated senior secured term loans including first lien senior secured term loans including unitranche loans and second lien senior secured term loans, with the balance of the investments expected to be in higher-yielding assets such as mezzanine debt, unsecured debt, equity investments and other opportunistic asset purchases.