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Summary 2022 was a tough year for income investors, with large drawdowns and few places to hide. We discuss some of the key lessons and takeaways of the year. These include how to think about bond-stock diversification, using countercyclical allocation, the concept of opportunity co...

Summary This article compares NLY’s recent dividend per share rates, yield percentages, and several dividend sustainability metrics to 19 mREIT peers. This includes an analysis of NLY’s quarterly estimated REIT taxable income, estimated core earnings, and normalized core e...

Summary We're highlighting two shares with yields over 13%. Each share trades at a discount to their net asset value and a discount to their usual price-to-NAV ratio. I already own one of these shares and Scott owns both. Get ready for charts, images, and tables because they...

Summary Dividend yields: 7.8% to 15%. Dramatic discounts to net asset value. Price to NAV range: .36 to .86. Recent plunge created new opportunities. We just bought more in one of these picks. Get ready for charts, images, and tables because they are better than words. T...

Summary Many investors find it necessary to maintain a lower-beta allocation in their portfolio to use for the purpose of lifecycle events or as ballast in the portfolio. Investors who have a critical need for a specific amount of capital in the future should stick to Treasury securitie...

Summary Four picks. Three big yields. 9.8% to 17.3%. The one over 17% clearly has more risk. Discounts range from 27% to 61%. That creates dramatic upside in the shares. We own shares in each of these picks. Granite Point Mortgage Trust [[GPMT]] is another reasonable choic...

Money died. P/E ratios are unreliable. If you want to use earnings, you better be right about your estimates. Without sufficient asset values, earnings falter. In this example, it took about 2 months for earnings estimates to reflect the carnage. Bagholders paid the price ...

2 of these picks come directly from my portfolio. Discounts to book value this large have historically been a sign of big gains for new buyers. Large discounts to book value are enabling higher dividend yield as the company’s equity value is much higher than share prices. ...

I own shares in each of these picks. One of these shares was severely overvalued for a long time, but it suddenly plunged. We loaded up this one just last week. The big discount to face value gives investors a higher yield and a significant amount of upside. Thinking higher Tr...

This article compares NLY’s recent dividend per share rates, yield percentages, and several dividend sustainability metrics to 19 mREIT peers. This article also discusses NLY’s dividend decrease for the second quarter of 2019 and 2020 and projects NLY’s dividend s...