Contrarian Outlook

Let’s dive into a brand-new CEF many people are ignoring—and see how we can ride it to some fast gains (and a growing 6.4% dividend).When a new CEF rolls down the skids, our antennae...

The stock market goes up as well as down and, for whatever reason, it tends to swing wildly in September and October. With last Monday’s intraday price action, we saw our first 5% decline in a...

Return to the office? Heck, we income investors don’t need to return to work—period.We can turn our nest egg into a cash flow machine, with big dividends to cover our monthly expenses....

It’s a tired piece of “wisdom” you hear from personal-finance gurus over and over: you need to invest in low-cost, passive index funds to get the highest return.Too bad it’s...

Historically, for whatever reason, stocks have made most of their gains between Nov. 1 and May 1. (Hence the phrase “sell in May and go away.”)I won’t bore you with the statistical...

There’s one word that strikes terror into the hearts of mainstream investors: leverage.But it really shouldn’t—and today I’m going to show you how to make sure you’re...

“Is $1 million enough to retire on?”Paul Katzeff of Investor’s Business Daily asked me earlier this month. He was especially keen on high-paying ETFs that would throw off enough...

Mainstream investors are stuck with cheesy dividend ETFs paying measly sub-3% yields. But we contrarians can grab ourselves a lot more dividend cash with a “switch” in our portfolio that...

Many folks see dividends as just a source of income. But they’re so much more! The two high-yield buys I’ll show you today, for example, are what I like to call “dividend Swiss Army...

Since traditional banks have backed off on business lending over the years, BDCs (business development companies) have stepped in. They provided much-needed debt, equity, and other financial solutions...

By now I’m guessing you’ve heard of the FIRE movement—you may even know someone who’s following this “extreme” form of retirement saving.An acronym for...

I sold this stock for a 4X return. It was a big gaffe.Fortunately, my amends—a renewed recommendation—helped careful contrarian readers to 22% profits in just over three weeks! We’ll...

Today I’m going to give you a shot at the next Texas Instruments (NASDAQ:TXN), which has delivered a dividend that’s surged 104% since members of my Hidden Yields service bought it in...

What if I told you there are 152 funds out there that yield 7%+? And many of these stout income plays are even safer than the typical S&P 500 stock! They hold the household-name stocks we all...

Dividend Aristocrats are popular. Too popular, if you ask me.I’ll concede that the surest, safest way to big stock market gains is dividend growth. Over time, stock prices are literally pulled...

Let’s talk about a fund that seems to tick all the dividend-and-growth boxes we income investors demand.Low fees? Yep. High yield? How does a 7.7% payout (nearly six times the S&P 500...