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19 Income ETFs Are Gone. Is Yours Next?

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Nim

2 weeks ago

Global Yields → 1 ETF (8.9% Yield)

19 high-income ETFs are already gone. Six more are scheduled to stop trading before the end of July. One of these funds survived for just 110 days. But here is what I found most interesting: Most of these ETFs did not close because their underlying i

3 weeks ago

KQQQ: How This 14% Yield Fund Kept Up With the Nasdaq

Some countries pay much higher interest rates than others. Colombia and Brazil can offer double-digit rates, while Japan and Singapore may sit near 1%. That creates an opportunity known as the carry trade: borrow where money is cheap, invest where ra

2 weeks ago

SCHD (3.2%) vs 8% Income: Why I Went Another Way

KQQQ: How This 14% Yield Fund Kept Up With the Nasdaq

Covered call funds usually come with a familiar tradeoff: higher income, but less upside. KQQQ is interesting because it has challenged that assumption. Since launching, the fund has managed to stay close to the Nasdaq-100, and at times slightly outp

last week

4 Ways I’m Preparing My Income Portfolio for a 50% Crash

SCHD (3.2%) vs 8% Income: Why I Went Another Way

SCHD has a lot going for it. The appeal is easy to understand: one simple ETF, a rising income stream, low fees, and a strategy built around quality U.S. companies with long dividend histories. The distribution chart looks exactly the way dividend-gr

Nim

3 days ago

12 US Options ETFs With ZERO NAV Erosion

4 Ways I’m Preparing My Income Portfolio for a 50% Crash

If the market fell 50% tomorrow, would your portfolio income still cover your expenses? A 50% market decline does not automatically mean a 50% income cut. But distributions can still fall, especially if asset values remain depressed after volatility

Cashflow King

3 quarters ago

The Best Stock Fair Value Platform Is the One That Uses the Right Model

12 US Options ETFs With ZERO NAV Erosion

The income investing world is full of beautiful lies. The most seductive one? "Higher yield equals better returns." Here's reality: Most high-yield options ETFs are quietly liquidating your portfolio while disguising it as "income

Kfir Aharon

last week

The 5 Horsemen to Income on the S&P 500: Strategies for Smarter Cash Flow

The Best Stock Fair Value Platform Is the One That Uses the Right Model

A fair value estimate can be precise, current, and completely inappropriate for the company being analyzed. That is the part most stock-analysis platforms do not emphasize enough. A standard discounted cash flow model may work reasonably well for a m

Income Architect

last quarter

The Throne of Compounding: Dividend Kings vs. Aristocrats (The Ultimate Guide)

The 5 Horsemen to Income on the S&P 500: Strategies for Smarter Cash Flow

For investors seeking high income from the S&P 500 without abandoning equity exposure, a new group of option-based ETFs has emerged as consistent cash-flow generators. I call them “The Five Horsemen of Income.” These funds take different approach

Kfir Aharon

3 quarters ago

5 Lessons I Learned After Retirement

The Throne of Compounding: Dividend Kings vs. Aristocrats (The Ultimate Guide)

In the world of dividend growth investing, we often talk about royalty. We use terms like "Aristocrats" and "Kings" to describe companies that have achieved the holy grail of income investing: consistency. But for the Snowball Ana

yesterday

The Dividend Investor’s Toolkit: How to Track, Reinvest, and Grow Passive Income Smarter

When I retired in 2017, my portfolio stopped being a scoreboard and became a paycheck machine. More than eight years later, I can say income investing has funded a life I truly enjoy—but the hardest lessons came during the rough patches, especially C

Kfir Aharon

3 quarters ago

GPIQ vs QQQI: Why GPIQ (9.4% Yield) Is Winning the Nasdaq Income Race

The Dividend Investor’s Toolkit: How to Track, Reinvest, and Grow Passive Income Smarter

Investing in dividends goes hand in hand with proffering long-term wealth and passive income generation. As your portfolio grows and spreads out over different brokers, markets, and payout dates, it may soon become a hard task to monitor each and eve

2 months ago