Contrarian Outlook

Retiring on dividends. It’s the income investors’ dream, right?It sure beats working for the rest of our lives! Check out this July 2023 income summary, courtesy of Income Calendar, a...

Don’t buy Jay Powell’s tough-guy act. This rate-hike cycle is on its last legs. And that’s opening up an opportunity for us to grab high—and growing—cash payouts in a...

Stop me if you’ve heard this one: “If you buy a high-yielding investment, your big yield won’t last because they’ll cut dividends.”I hear it a lot, so let’s talk...

Let’s talk about legitimate financial engineering today. An easy, real and (honestly) no-brainer move to boost a timid 2.5% yield into an 8.4% dividend.Just type this ticker, not that ticker,...

Forget the latest blather from the Fed: folks just trying to get a decent income stream are still getting a raw deal these days. Treasuries pay 3.7%. Stocks? Just 1.6%.Too bad inflation is at 4%, so...

The recession everyone’s been worrying about is still a mirage—and there’s a good chance it won’t become reality for a long time yet. That’s given us a nice momentum play...

There’s a $600-billion river of cash flowing straight out of Corporate America—and straight into some dividend investors’ pockets. Today we’re going to grab our share.Companies...

The stock market is coming off another sugar high, but REITs (real estate investment trusts) are still cheap. That’s great news to us income investors, who look past the piddly paying blue chips...

There’s a lot of rhetoric flying around about the debt ceiling these days, and it’s set up a very nice opportunity for us to buy a 7%-yielding closed-end fund (CEF) we always have on our...

Vanilla energy bulls stare at XLE (NYSE:XLE). So basic.Meanwhile, we “second-level” contrarians consider NRGX as a high-yield play on higher oil prices. What’s the difference? Well,...

When I talk to investors about closed-end funds (CEFs), I get an almost universal reaction: they simply can’t believe the outsized dividends—and upside potential—these funds boast...

The stock market has a potential to be a hot mess this summer. Banks are failing. We’re heading towards the most telegraphed recession of all time. I could go on…But I’ll spare you...

You just can’t argue with the power of index investing, right?After all, index funds boast ultra-low fees and simply track the market. And since stocks return about 7% per year on average, you...

“We remain on track to deliver on our best in class 12% to 15% annual distribution per unit growth expectations…” Translation: We’re going to hike our dividend by 12% to 15%...

Interest rates are topping out—and it’s finally time for us contrarians to get greedy. We’ll start with a group of funds throwing off double-digit yields and trading at big...

We need to talk about “financial independence” for a second. It’s one of those catch-all terms you see a lot in financial-industry marketing, for good reason: it means completely...