SPE vs PIM Comparison

Special Opportunities Fund Inc is a closed-ended diversified management investment company. Its investment objective is to have the total return. The company's investment portfolio consists of investment companies, common stocks, money market funds, commodity partnerships, preferred stocks, convertible bonds, liquidating trusts, promissory notes, senior unsecured notes, warrants, rights, corporate notes and corporate bonds. In addition, it also makes investments in construction materials, consumer finance, healthcare equipment and supplies, independent power and renewable electricity producers, insurance, personal products, professional services and real estate investment trusts.

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.