Contrarian Outlook

Imagine getting $100 per month in passive income for every $10,000 you invest. That amounts to a $35,000 annual dividend stream with less than $300,000 saved.It’s not impossible. In fact,...

For the past few weeks, I’ve been drawing up a roadmap of how income investors like us can fend off inflation’s impending march.Utility stocks. small banks. Heck, small businesses. But...

Once folks get a taste of closed-end funds (CEFs), they typically rave about one thing: the dividends! Yields of 7% and up are common with CEFs, and they often come your way monthly.We also love the...

Unlike the broader market, REITs (real estate investment trusts) haven’t been messing around this year. The Vanguard Real Estate ETF (NYSE:VNQ) has convincingly broken out to new highs.For us...

When it comes right down to it, we dividend investors really only need three things:Bargain stocks with … High current yields and ideally … Monthly payouts—so we can line up our...

The Federal Reserve is finally beginning to admit that it’s here and, at the moment, it’s spectacular. Chairman Jay Powell is still sticking with his “it’s only...

Let’s take advantage of this pullback! In a moment, I’m going to outline two generous CEFs (closed-end funds) that pay 6.6%.Thanks to last week’s market action, each fund trades at a...

Our man Jay Powell is talking a little more about raising rates. Right on cue, stocks have dropped, and dividend yields have popped!Our contrarian buying opportunity is here. But wait. Even with the...

I get plenty of questions about specific closed-end funds from members of my CEF Insider service, which focuses on quick-moving smaller CEFs (here I mean those with sub-$1-billion market caps).We love...

Healthcare—along with consumer staples (“buying stuff”) and utilities (“keeping the lights on”)—provide portfolio stability. Plus, they usually pay dividends,...

Far too many investors think inflation is bad news for closed-end funds (CEFs), for a simple reason: they fear it’ll boost CEFs’ borrowing costs. (Because CEFs, of course, use leverage to...

I recently accomplished something that had been on my “to do” list for no fewer than three months. I figured out how to log into my 401(K)! You would think a simple “password...

Oil stocks—and their fat dividends—are breaking out to new highs.Question for you. If Fed Chair Jay Powell hadn’t printed a bunch of money over the past 14 months, would energy...

Are the best things in life actually free? It depends how we handle the hidden costs.Free coffee is good. At home, I drink one mega-cup per day. At fixed income conferences, I typically scale that...

With stocks grinding along near all-time highs, decent discounts (and decent dividend yields!) are thin on the ground. But if we look close enough, they are there.The answer to this no-yield problem...

The once unthinkable has happened: AT&T (NYSE:T), a Dividend Aristocrat that increased payouts for 30 years, said it will cut its payout nearly in half.The move is especially infuriating because,...