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No portfolio or strategy can be perfect. But can there be a strategy that can work well in a bull market, a bear market, or a stagnant market, generate a decent income, and conserve capital, all at the same time? We also want our strategy to avoid roller-coaster rides of index investi...
For income investors, closed-end funds remain an attractive investment class that covers a variety of asset classes and promise high distributions and reasonable total returns. Closed-end funds are generally characterized by higher volatility and deeper drawdowns than the broad market...
Tech stocks have taken a header, and we contrarians are going to take advantage and set ourselves up for some serious upside—and 5.6% dividends, too. Why are we zeroing in on tech now? Because investors have been (wrongly) fretting over a 1970s-style inflation flare-up, and t...
STK has a yield of 5.5%. This is attractive if the distribution can be supported. I continue my series digging into CEFs beyond the yield with a look at STK. NAV growth has been impressive over the last year, and the well-covered distribution has been very reliable. For furt...
For income investors, closed-end funds remain an attractive investment class that covers a variety of asset classes and promise high distributions and reasonable total returns. Closed-end funds are generally characterized by higher volatility and deeper drawdowns than the broad market...
There are dozens of CEFs, ETFs, and mutual funds that employ covered call strategies - owning stocks or indexes and then selling call options against them to create income. Covered call funds have most of the downside risk of stocks but the upside of bonds is what an old mentor once t...
AIO is a unique and interesting approach to tech investing, bringing further diversification for investors who might already be overweight tech. The fund is at an attractive discount and the distribution is quite appealing at this time. Now that the fund has been around for nearly...
For income investors, closed-end funds remain an attractive investment class that covers a variety of asset classes and promise high distributions and reasonable total returns. Closed-end funds are generally characterized by higher volatility and deeper drawdowns than the broad market...
The Columbia Seligman Premium Technology Growth Fund follows a covered call strategy on the S&P North America Technology Sector Index. The strategy uses rules-based call option writing designed to seek capital appreciation, provide current income, and mitigate downside volatility....
For most people, especially retirees, it's very difficult to tolerate large and deep drawdowns. But with index investing, there's no escape from a roller coaster ride. Early last year, we introduced the concept of the Near-Perfect Portfolio (NPP). Since that time, the market has made ...
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2024-07-08 05:00:59 ET Hedge funds have a big problem: They can’t beat the market anymore. If you read the press, you’ll see a lot of concern over this. If hedge funds aren’t cutting staff , they’re struggling to find talent to try to boost their retu...
Columbia Seligman Premium Technology Growth Fund, Inc. (the “Fund”) (NYSE: STK ) today held its 14 th Annual Meeting of Stockholders (the “Meeting”) in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Stockholders voted in favor of the recommendations of the Fund’s Board of Dire...
2024-05-27 05:00:51 ET If you’re like me, you read (or watch) a lot of personal-finance gurus. And nearly all of them make one critical error when giving advice to folks hoping to save for retirement (or stay retired, if they’re already there). They put a lot of emphas...