Contrarian Outlook

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...

Sometimes as income investors, we face a situation that sounds like a good problem to have: We have to pick among a group of very impressive investments! That’s obviously much tougher than, say,...

Let’s talk about a “rich guy loophole” that you and I can take advantage of—and bank dividends up to 12.5%. And no, I’m not going to ask for your most recent tax return or W2. These are perfectly...

With stocks back in “climb” mode (at least for now!), it could seem like a good time to look for a hedge against the next downturn. If you’re looking for hedges that also pay big dividends, you might...

One year ago, I wrote to you that it was time to buy bonds again. The “index huggers” who only know SPY thought we were nuts for talking fixed income. The popular narrative at the time (which aged...

The index huggers are, rightfully, fretting about the only position they own, the S&P 500, which is heavy on Nvidia (NASDAQ:NVDA). The soon-to-be-fallen angel is the third largest component of...

Believe it or not, your favorite income strategist once had a multi-year stint as the head of human resources for a US-based software company. It was, coincidentally, my last regular “day job” before...