Thursday, April 3, 2025
The value of gold continues to rise. The precious metal has gained 15% this year to date and is up 38% over the last year. Investors often choose to leverage gains in precious metals by investing in shares of gold mining companies. Gold miners generate profits by leveraging the price of gold, which is driven […]
For my high-yield-focused Dividend Hunter newsletter, I tend to steer away from recommending closed-end funds (CEFs). I have been known to call CEFs the “junkyard of Wall Street.” Still, when I discovered the Amplify High Income ETF (YYY), I had hopes of finding a fund that would select the best in the CEF world. It […]
The 10 highest yield dividend stocks going ex-div this week. These are some of the top dividend stocks for this week.
Over the past few weeks, the major U.S. stock market indexes have tumbled into correction territory. Of course, falling stock prices lead to news reports filled with warnings about continued price declines, the potential for a bear market, and even an economic recession. Every time stock prices enter a downturn, news outlets and many investors […]
Over the last couple of years, exchange-traded funds (ETFs) that use covered call strategies to generate income have become the rage. I have a tracking list of 98 ETFs, 55 of which have launched in the last two years. Today, I’m focusing my attention on two of these funds. Their sponsors only wish to gather […]
Among the subscribers to my Dividend Hunter, there is a wide range of stock market investing experience. From the emails I receive, I know that it is easy for both beginners and more experienced investors to have trouble keeping up with how companies announce dividends and when you’ll see the cash in your brokerage account. […]
When I spoke a few weeks ago at the Las Vegas MoneyShow, I was bombarded with questions about single-stock, covered-call ETFs, especially the ones from YieldMax. These ETFs sport massive dividend yields, and the YieldMax success at gathering assets is spawning competition from other ETF sponsors. YieldMax has several dozen single-stock ETFs. Kurv ETFs currently […]
Last week, I made a couple of investment presentations at the MoneyShow in Las Vegas. During and after my presentations, I was peppered with questions about the new breed of ultra-high-yield, covered-call ETFs, especially about funds managed by YieldMax. YieldMax pioneered covered call ETFs with single stocks as the underlying assets. These ETFs have caught […]
The SEC approved spot bitcoin ETFs just over a year ago, in January 2024. Eleven new Bitcoin ETFs received approval at that time. Over the course of 2024, fund sponsors launched ETFs that make short options trades to generate income, with Bitcoin ETFs or futures as the underlying assets. Investors and traders have long used […]
When Rithm Capital (RITM) announced its 2024 fourth-quarter results, the CEO, Michael Nierenberg, hinted at changing the company’s capital structure, dropping its REIT status. Let’s look at RITM as a REIT and what a change might mean. In 2022, the company, then called New Residential, acquired its management contract from Fortress Investment Group to become […]
