GCV vs ADVM Comparison

GABELLI CONVERTIBLE & INCOME SECURITIES FUND INC is a diversified closed-end management investment company. Its investment objective is to seek a high level of total return through a combination of current income and capital appreciation by investing in convertible securities. The company invests in various portfolios such as Health Care, Financial Services, Real Estate Investment Trust, Energy and Utilities, Telecommunications, Food and Beverage, Aerospace and Automotive and others. All the operation of the group is operated through the regions of United States.

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.