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New High Yielding 2X-Leveraged ETNs to Consider I am always looking for ways to diversify the 15%+ current yield portfolio where the most important constraint is to only include securities with current yields above 15%. Other constraints are the typical retail IRA account restrictions, whi...

Co-produced with Trapping Value and Treading Softly Business Development Companies (or BDCs) are companies involved primarily in lending to small and mid-sized companies. Following the 2008 crisis, BDCs have grown significantly as regulatory pressure limited banks' ability to...

Author’s Note: Since several readers have recently asked about this topic (both in public and private), please see the following article in regards to my thoughts on Main Street Capital Corp.’s (MAIN) dividend sustainability through the first half of 2020: Main Street Capit...

The ETRACS 2x Leveraged ETN Snapshot presents the latest updates on the news, yields, performance and other data for the ETRACS 2x ETNs, an extremely popular suite of high-yielding vehicles for income investors. This consolidated report is designed to help members evaluate at a glance which ...

As readers know, our Income Factory™ strategy is to regard our portfolio as a factory and not worry much about how the market values it from time to time, but rather to focus on (1) the factory output (how much cash it produces), and (2) growing that output steadily at an "equity retu...

PYPE:              linked to the NYSE® Pickens Core Midstream TM Index MLPI:                   linked to the Alerian MLP Inf...

Comparing Risk, Current Yields and Total Returns for 2x Leveraged ETNs I have written about my portfolio where the most important constraint is to only include securities with current yields above 15%. Other constraints are the typical retail IRA account restrictions which preclude the u...

Why Consider BDCL Again? The primary reason to buy any of the 2x Leveraged High-Yield ETNs, such as the UBS ETRACS 2x Leveraged Long Wells Fargo® Business Development Company ETN (NYSEARCA: BDCL ), is the high current yields. I have written about my portfolio where the most important ...

Author’s Note : This article is a detailed analysis of NEWTEK Business Service’s ( NEWT ) dividend sustainability. I have performed this analysis due to the continued number of readers who have specifically requested such an analysis be performed on NEWT (since I have not writ...

Author’s Note: PART 1 of this article analyzed Ares Capital Corp.’s ( ARCC ) recent quarterly results and compared several of the company’s metrics to fourteen business development company (“BDC”) peers. PART 1 helps lead to a better understanding of the ...