Nuveen S&P 500 Buy-Write Income Fund (BXMX)

• Market cap: $1.47B
• 1 day: -0.14%
• 5 days: -2.08%
• 1 month: -0.56%
• 3 months: 5.38%
• 6 months: 8.05%
• Year to date: 2.55%
• 1 year: 4.68%
• 5 years: 25%
• 10 years: 12.89%
• Sector: Financials
• Industry: Asset Management

About: Nuveen S&P 500 Buy-Write Income Fund is a diversified closed-ended management investment company based in the United States. Its investment objective is to seek attractive total returns with less volatility. The fund invests its managed assets in a diversified equity portfolio that seeks to substantially replicate price movements of the S&P 500 Index. It also uses an index options of writing (selling) index call options in seeking to moderate the volatility of returns relative to an all-equity portfolio. Its revenue is generated mainly from interest and dividend income.

Fund manager confidence

Based on 2025 Q2 regulatory disclosures by fund managers ($100M+ AUM)

22% more repeat investments, than reductions

Existing positions increased: 55 | Existing positions reduced: 45

4% more capital invested

Capital invested by funds: $419M [Q1] → $436M (+$17.5M) [Q2]

0.47% less ownership

Funds ownership: 30.65% [Q1] → 30.18% (-0.47%) [Q2]

3% less funds holding

Funds holding: 160 [Q1] → 155 (-5) [Q2]

13% less first-time investments, than exits

New positions opened: 13 | Existing positions closed: 15