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Regular income from your investments can have a powerful impact on your goal of becoming financially independent and reaching your retirement goals. Only regular income can make you financially independent unless you have accumulated very large net worth. Being financially independent...

BST yields 8.96%, BSTZ yields 10.98%. Both pay monthly. BSTZ has an 11.5% discount, BST has a 1.5% discount. Looking for a contrarian income investment? Sometimes that's necessary in order to find value. Why buy at a premium when you can buy at a discount? When buying cl...

BlackRock Advisors, LLC released today share repurchase activity for certain BlackRock closed-end funds (the “Funds”) during the quarter ended June 30, 2022. The Funds have authorized open market share repurchase programs (the “Repurchase Programs”) pursuant ...

Price is what you pay, value is what you get. In the case of CEFs, price and value rarely coincide. In fact, as we know, CEFs may price at a premium or at a discount to the value of their assets. Why this happens remains a mystery, but one that we have to deal with every time ...

Retirees and conservative investors need income, growth to exceed inflation, and most importantly, conservation of capital. Most investors find it difficult to tolerate large and deep drawdowns and want an escape from the roller coaster ride of the stock market. However, that is not p...

BDJ’s yield is quite high as compared to average income funds, and a minimum positive price growth will generate double-digit returns. Due to its deep diversification, BDJ is in a position to absorb the sectorial risks that have begun due to economic uncertainty. Due to a h...

BST is a closed-end fund focused on technology equities. The fund has an outstanding long term performance with annualized total returns since inception that top 20%, achieved with a Sharpe ratio above 0.8. The fund is down more than -29% year to date as risk-free rates have risen...

For income investors, closed-end funds remain an attractive investment class that covers a variety of asset classes and promises high distributions and reasonable total returns. Closed-end funds are generally characterized by higher volatility and deeper drawdowns than the broad marke...

Investing is simple: you just need to find quality titles, buy those titles at the lowest possible price, and keep them for the long term. Easy to say but not to do, at least for me, because I rank these steps in increasing order of difficulty. In this article I will describe, fro...

Today I want to show you how to build a “three-click” income portfolio that gives us three things every income investor craves, especially these days: Big discounts on our investments. Big dividends, with a 10.6% yield averaged out across three funds. Wide di...