FMY vs ADVM Comparison

First Trust Mortgage Income Fund is a United States based diversified, closed-end management investment company. The fund's primary investment objective is to seek a high level of current income. Its secondary investment objective is to preserve capital. The fund pursues its objectives by investing predominantly in mortgage-backed securities representing part ownership in a pool of either residential or commercial mortgage loans that, in the opinion of the Fund's investment advisor, offer an attractive combination of credit quality, yield and maturity.

Adverum Biotechnologies Inc is a clinical-stage company that aims to establish gene therapy as a new standard of care for prevalent ocular diseases. It develops gene therapy product candidates intended to provide durable efficacy by inducing sustained expression of a therapeutic protein. Its product candidate, ixoberogene soroparvovec (Ixo-vec), is a single, in-office intravitreal (IVT) injection gene therapy product designed to deliver long-term durable therapeutic levels of aflibercept associated with a robust, sustained treatment response, reducing the treatment burden and fluctuations in macular fluid associated with bolus anti-vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) IVT injections.