JEPI News and Press, JPMorgan Equity Premium Income From 08/24/21

If rationality is the winning weapon of the Capricorn, I hope it will help me in the field of finance, preventing me from acting on impulse in the short term. One of my recent decisions was to reduce my Cupolone Income Portfolio to 12 CEFs by liquidating my entire position in RNP. ...

Weak PMIs mean expectations of strong taper warnings at Jackson Hole are being pared back. This could be a mistake, but pessimism means even a hawkish Fed would be greeted with a modest market reaction. In the meantime, supply skews rates moderately higher this week. For fur...

The media wants you to believe that the tapering of Quantitative Easing is a big deal with a potential bad outcome (“if it bleeds, it leads”). The exact opposite is the case. Covid Delta as a weapon of mass economic destruction - another media obsession. Is this round tw...

Falling growth does not mean the economy is contracting. It merely means that the rate of increase is slowing. How much it slows is something we can't know yet, but it is exactly what we've been expecting for months as we watched bond yields drop. One reason I think the current enviro...

Blindly holding a 50/50-stock/bond portfolio doesn’t work anymore. Volatility demands risk mitigation, and the 40-year bond rally has no more room to run. Forget what was normal before. Risk mitigation is a quantitative process; fear and greed instincts can be destructive. But ...

Relative to the 2020M02 nationwide peak, as of July Wisconsin NFP is down 3.8%, as compared to 3.7% nationwide. The dualistic nature of the recovery persists, with high contact services employment remaining more depressed than that for goods production. The recovery in leisure and...

The rebound in consumer participation is an important part of the growth story we’ve seen in 2021, with accommodative monetary and fiscal policies also playing an important role. Going forward, we see these forces continuing to drive growth - albeit with some moderation - as co...

After 24 weeks and $2,400, the Dividend Harvesting Portfolio is generating $161.04 in estimated annual income and $13.42 in monthly estimated income. In week 24, I added the JPMorgan Equity Premium Income ETF and increased my position in BP and ALTY from Global X. The Dividend Har...

The All Cap Blend style ranks third in Q3'21. Based on an aggregation of ratings of 144 ETFs and 732 mutual funds in the All Cap Blend style. JEPI is our top-rated All Cap Blend style ETF and FFILX is our top-rated All Cap Blend style mutual fund. For further details see: ...

Taking investment cues from market price trends is pure Momentum Investing. Fundamentals do indeed determine the price trends over longer periods, but not within the time frame presented by media pundits. Fear of loss (risk) is the main driver in the human psyche, and this has long be...