Contrarian Outlook

Another day, another sign the economy is heading straight for that “no-landing” scenario I’ve been talking about for weeks now … … and yet another sign the two dividends we’re going to discuss today...

Having a diversified portfolio is pretty much Investing 101, right? I mean, it’s one of the first things we all learn as investors. But there’s a problem here: Going for balance in “regular” stocks,...

Let’s talk about companies that are serious about dividend hikes. I’m talking about recent payout raises of 25%, 67% and even 120%. Know what happens to a stock that raises its dividend like this?...

Here’s an idea that might sound just a little bit odd at first: You can actually get retirement-investing advice that’s too conservative. That may not sound like a bad thing, right? After all, who...

Now that Federal Reserve Chairman Jay Powell has pivoted towards his “other mandate,” we should take a cue from my six-year-old, who yells from the back seat: “FedEx!” For years she has been enamored...

Right now, there’s $6.5 trillion in cash sitting on the sidelines—and a big slice of it is about to drop straight into a select group of dividend stocks. We’re going to “front run” that cash wave...

Closed-end funds (CEFs), with an average yield of around 8%, are terrific for just about any investor—especially those looking to their portfolios to help pay the bills. Heck, even if you’re not...

Real estate is great, except for the heavy time commitment, which makes it a non-starter for me. Enter real estate investment trusts (REITs), which let us invest in not one or two buildings, but...

I recently wrote about a trend that’s making income investors excited: After years of failing to produce decent returns, bonds are back. Media outlets, including Bloomberg, have picked up on this....

How would I invest a chunk of money today? Say $10K or even $100K? I’d load up on dividend magnet stocks, sit back and watch Fed Chair Jay Powell pump them to the moon! Want to know what happened the...

Rate cuts are finally here. So will we actually hit that vaunted “soft landing” everyone’s been talking about? Well, I’ve got a (contrarian, naturally!) take that I know most people haven’t thought...

At my CEF Insider service, a fund’s discount to net asset value (NAV, or the value of its underlying portfolio) is one of the first things we look at when deciding whether to issue a buy call. That’s...

$500K can be enough money to retire on. Even as early as age 50! The trick is to convert the pile of cash into cash flow that can pay the bills. I’m talking about $38,513.22 per year in dividend...

When choosing between closed-end funds (CEFs), you might be tempted to put a lot of focus on fees. That makes sense. Nobody likes high costs eating into their returns. But there’s more to CEF...

Discounted closed-end funds (CEFs) are perhaps the sweetest dividend deals that Wall Street offers. I mean, where else can we find a 9.9% yield trading for 87 cents on the dollar? By offers I mean...

Interest rates are (finally!) set to fall. As they do, we’re going to bag bargain-priced 8%+ dividends from a pattern we can set our watches to at times like this. I’m talking about the mainstream...