PIM vs BGX Comparison

Putnam Master Intermediate Income Trust is a closed-end fund. Its investment objective is to provide high current income and relative stability of net asset value. The fund pursues its goal by investing in U.S. high-grade, high-yield, and international fixed-income securities with limited maturities. The fund's portfolio includes the United States Government and agency mortgage obligations; mortgage-backed securities; corporate bonds and notes, and foreign government and agency bonds and notes.

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.