TCPC vs BLE Comparison

BlackRock TCP Capital Corp is an externally-managed specialty finance company focused on middle-market lending. Its investment objective is to achieve high total returns through current income and capital appreciation, with an emphasis on principal protection. It seeks to achieve investment objective through investments in debt securities of middle-market companies. The group generates returns through a combination of the receipt of contractual interest payments on debt investments and origination and similar fees, and, to a lesser extent, equity appreciation through options, warrants, conversion rights or direct equity investments.

Blackrock Municipal Income Trust II is a perpetual closed-end municipal bond fund. Its objective is to provide a high current income exempt from federal income taxes. The fund invests a majority of its managed assets in municipal obligations issued by or on behalf of states, territories, and possessions of the United States and their political subdivisions, agencies, or instrumentalities (Municipal Bonds), the interest of which is exempt from regular federal income tax (except that the interest may be subject to the alternative minimum tax).