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High Yield ETFs

Municipal Rally – Oh How Meredith Was Wrong

January 30, 2012

In 2010 one brave analyst took to 60 minutes to give deliver a warning message: municipalities are broke. Meredith Whitney made a very controversial call, declaring state and local governments a poor place to invest. In particular, she noted her expectations for the future of the municipal bond market which included hundreds of billions of [...]

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3 Flavors of High Yield Investments: Foreign, ETFs and Persistent Payers

June 22, 2011

Traditional income investors have been in despair for years now since the Fed adopted its zero interest rate policy and doesn’t appear to be changing course any time soon. Conventional safe investments like savings, CDs and money markets have continued to actually lose money to real inflation and will likely do so for years to [...]

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10 Dow Stocks Yielding over 3% – But How’s the Performance of Dow Dogs?

June 2, 2011

With yields on 10-Year Treasuries dropping below 3% again on worries in the EU and another lousy jobs report, it’s worth noting that there are 10 stocks in the Dow Jones Industrial Average yielding over 3%. As compiled by CNBC this week, this table highlights 10 of the 30 stocks comprising the index with a [...]

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Monthly Income with Dividend Stocks

February 23, 2011

When a corporation turns a profit, it has two choices: It can keep the profits and reinvest them in the company, where they become retained earnings, or it can distribute them to the shareholders. That distribution is a dividend. Dividends can take several forms. A company can issue a stock dividend in which additional shares [...]

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Muni Bond Market Imploding – How to Play It

November 22, 2010

While it was readily apparent years ago, and we were reminded again during the 2008-2009 financial crash, markets had temporarily forgotten that municipalities across the nation are virtually insolvent and should already have declared bankruptcy. If they have not yet “restructured” their debt, they should and they will. After decades of politicians writing checks the [...]

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Student Housing REIT – Perfect Combination of Yield, Stability and Price Gains

September 29, 2010

A buddy of mine has been making a killing in college housing for years. Unlike what has happened to the residential real estate market, the college housing market has been largely insulated from both the initial bubble and the subsequent crash. Why? Well, valuations are based on actual cash-flows (real money) and not speculation, flipping [...]

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New Alerian MLP ETF: High Yield, Beats the Market and No Messy Tax Forms

August 25, 2010

Today hailed the launch of the first MLP ETF (Master Limited Partnerships) which have been crushing the S&P500 this year from a capital appreciation and yield standpoint. For the uninitiated, MLPs are publicly traded companies that are structured as partnerships such that they must distribute the majority of their profits, but in turn, they are [...]

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4 Dividend ETFs Beating the S&P500 in 2010

August 18, 2010

Dividend ETFs are beating the S&P500 handily and it appears as though they have the propensity to do so into the foreseeable future. There are some interesting happenings in both the broader market as well as the fixed-income space. Treasuries continue to break new lows leaving investors scratching their heads as to whether we’re truly [...]

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Sector Review: Utility ETFs for High Yield and Stability

July 9, 2010

Investors are starting to pay more attention to Utility Stocks and Utility ETFs of late given the low interest rate environment that doesn’t seem to have an end in sight. With the 10-year Treasury hovering around 3% and the prospect of loss of principal one bonds when rates do rise eventually, the prospect of equities [...]

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