Thursday, April 25, 2024
Investing for dividend growth is one of the most reliable long-term wealth-building strategies. For my Monthly Dividend Multiplier service subscribers, I recommend some additional portfolio management techniques to enhance long-term total returns. Looking at the long-term results of stocks that steadily grow their dividends, the average compound total return growth rate (CAGR) will end up […]
As the Federal Reserve has indicated its willingness to keep interest rates higher for longer, the broader stock market has struggled with predicting the effects of rates staying up and also trying to predict when the Fed will get around to the initial rate reductions. Investors can take advantage of the higher-for-longer meme by investing […]
Energy midstream companies organized as master limited partnerships (MLPs) offer significant tax advantages to investors. However, there are a few “gotchas” with MLP investing, so it is essential to correctly structure how you get exposure to this very attractive type of income investment. Let me show you. Believe me, you’ll be grateful you read this […]
Over the last couple of years, ETF sponsors have flooded the market with new funds that use options strategies to enhance income or protect principal values. These funds use very advanced options strategies to achieve their goals, so by definition, they are not easy to understand or evaluate. Our Investors Alley team has assembled a […]
As I start a new year, I work through strategies that will let me make more money as we go through the year. The first quarter brings dividend increase announcements, and they put my focus on dividend growth investing. Every day, news crosses my desk highlighting the power of dividend growth. Investing in growing dividends […]
For dividend investors, an excellent yield combined with regular dividend increases is the holy grail of wealth building. Dividend growth produces share price appreciation, so an income investment that grows dividends will almost certainly produce tremendous compounding annual total returns. Today, I want to show you my favorite ETF that does just that. In January […]
For dividend growth-focused investors, the 2020 coronavirus pandemic-triggered shutdown threw a monkey wrench into dividend income expectations. In response to the shutdown, companies stopped increasing dividends, cut dividend rates, or suspended dividends entirely. Four years after the shutdown, it’s time to see how dividend policies have changed… And where the next big dividend growth opportunities […]
Much of the financial world has been waiting (for almost a decade) for the SEC to approve spot Bitcoin ETFs. On January 10, it finally happened. And now we have 11 exciting new ways to lose a bunch of money. Let me explain… A spot Bitcoin owns a portfolio of Bitcoins directly, and ETF investors […]
The prospectus of a newly launched fund discusses its strategy to generate returns of up to 5% per month. The fund is so new there are very few actual results to determine the strategy’s effectiveness. Option strategy ETFs have become a very hot category, and I plan to dig through the dozens of funds to […]
For an investor, few things are as unnerving as realizing that there is a concerted short-seller attack on one of your stocks. Over recent months, I have guided my Dividend Hunter subscribers when a couple of our stocks were subject to short-seller attacks. If you understand what the short sellers are trying to do and […]
