Reaching Dividend Escape Velocity
Imagine reaching a point where your dividends pay for everything so your rent/bills, food, travel, even the fun stuff and your portfolio keeps growing without you lifting a finger.
That’s Dividend Escape Velocity. T
There are two types of investors when it comes to the stock market: shareholders and shareflippers.
The goal of the latter is to buy a stock for a certain price and then eventually sell it at a higher price in the future. As a result, there can never
High-yield ETFs have become increasingly popular among income investors seeking consistent cash flow, but they also attract criticism and confusion. Many investors assume that falling prices, large distributions, or reverse splits are red flags. In r
Inflation is the silent wealth killer. While your savings account balance might look steady, the real value of that money shrinks year after year. For investors seeking income, this poses a critical challenge: how do you generate returns that not onl
Based on extensive research into the CNN Fear and Greed Index and market internals, the current situation: market momentum showing extreme greed while other indicators signal fear or extreme fear is unusual and historically significant. This divergen
I refer to this ETF as my "Lazy Income Fund." The fund's return isn't lazy, but the fund itself does a lot of work so you don't have to.
At its core, CEFS is an Exchange Traded Fund (ETF) that invests in Closed-End Funds (CEF
Growing up in the early 90s, I was never taught about financial literacy. However, the building blocks were laid from a very young age when it came to understanding the importance of living below my means and not spending more money than I had. I lea
In recent years, Chinese companies BYD, NIO and Huawei/Aito have been actively expanding their presence in the electric vehicle (EV) market, demonstrating the potential for global competition with Tesla. Improving relations between China and other co
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
1) Executive takeaways
First cargo late-2025; staged ramp-up. Guidance points to first shipment around Nov/Dec 2025, ramping toward ~120 Mtpa over ~30 months.
Ton-mile boost is the story. West Africa (Guinea) → North China is ~11.2k nm one-way—about
I reviewed large U.S. stocks and built a top-10 based on 12-month total return (with dividends reinvested). I only included companies with clear financials and active trading.
How the ranking worksI evaluate only large, publicly listed U.S. companies
When it comes to diversification, one of my rules of thumb is to try and avoid letting any individual position make up more than 10% of my portfolio. This doesn’t include ETFs, of course.
For the most part, I’ve done a good job of sticking to that ov