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About a year ago, I wrote two articles about SVOL, the Simplify Volatility Premium ETF. SVOL Currently Yields 17.68%; Is This Dividend Sustainable? SVOL’s Strategy Has Changed. Can It Maintain Its 16.53% Yield? As you can see from the two article titles, SVOL pays a sizeable monthly distribution and has consistently yielded above 15% yearly, … Read more
If you’re an income investor, you’ve probably heard of YieldMax by now, with its massive yields from its individual stock synthetic-covered call strategies. For example, ETFs like TSLY, CONY, and NVDY are all funds from YieldMax, sporting respective yields of 48.00%, 99.36%, and 105.33%. Whether you like these funds or not, they certainly are popular. Since its inception in … Read more
When investors like Warren Buffett advise to invest in low-cost S&P 500 index funds, it isn’t necessarily because they think fund managers are incompetent. It’s that beating the market is already tricky, and even when you have a fund manager who beats it, it’s unlikely that you will beat the market after paying the management fees. … Read more
Three days ago, I wrote an article titled “Reacting To This Redditor’s $93K Dividend Portfolio” as a mini experiment. Reacting To This Redditor’s $93K Dividend Portfolio My articles on stock investment portfolios have frequently garnered significant viewership, and I enjoy practicing portfolio construction using hypothetical scenarios. At the end of January, I published an immensely … Read more
In my previous position working for a luxury real estate auction house, I had phenomenal opportunities to interact and learn from wealthy individuals whose net worth often exceeded $10 million. As many would expect, these ultra-high-net-worth individuals are quite different from the average person in how they think and work. When you spend so much … Read more
Several investment companies have made a name for themselves in recent years through high-yield income-oriented funds like YieldMax, NEOS, and Defiance. The number of high-income funds being launched has grown significantly to the point that it has become overwhelming for me to cover them all and pick out the best few. I often wondered what … Read more