Contrarian Outlook

These are trying times, so let’s talk about how we’re going to protect our retirement (and our families’ futures) as market volatility increases.The Ukraine crisis is, of course,...

Lets talk about protecting our retirement portfolios and finding safe dividend stocks.It’s hard to see how the conflict in Ukraine ends quickly. If things take another turn for the worse,...

I’m about to reveal my very best strategy for pocketing 20%+ upside (and 7.8%+ dividends) from high-yielding closed-end funds (CEFs).It’s a "rinse and repeat" move that can help you grab...

With the swift stock-market decline we’ve seen since the start of 2022, now you can be forgiven if your stomach tightens just a bit when you go to check your retirement account.So today...

The S&P 500 is about as pricey as it ever gets. It’s also in freefall as I write.This is good news for anyone looking for a future bargain. The plunge, however, is really bad news for most...

Far too many investors ignore dividends, even in a bull market. When there’s a correction, like the one we’ve seen over the last few weeks, they flip the script, making safe cash dividends...

With the market melting down, dividend stocks have built-in cushions. Unlike profitless tech shares, which rarely pay, our dividend payers’ yields go up when prices go down.The result? Stronger...

If you’re relying on income from your portfolio, you know how annoying it is to manage a collection of quarterly dividend payers.Take five of the most popular dividend stocks on the market...

The stock market doesn’t just hand out safe yields up to 11.8%, vanilla money managers will tell you. And they are mostly right—but sometimes wrong.When these 11.8% dividends are safe to...

I always have a good laugh when the press talks about our favorite high-yield plays—closed-end funds (CEFs)—like they’re some new thing! Of course, we seasoned CEF investors have...

If you own a bond fund, it’s probably down in recent months. Let’s talk about why and walk through three popular fixed-income ideas from worst to first.We’ll start with the iShares...

There’s a "double shot" of upside waiting for us in real estate investment trusts (REITs) right now, and some of these companies—like the 3 we’ll discuss below—are so stuffed...

We’ve got a pullback-driven (and tax-free!) dividend opportunity waiting for us now, and we can thank the Fed’s looming rate hikes for it. It’s a “safety first”...

Nearly two years ago, our Contrarian Income Report service picked up cheap oil dividends that, at the time, yielded nearly 11.8%. With oil trading at negative prices (meaning producers were paying...

One of the best things about closed-end funds (CEFs) is that, even though there are only about 500 or so of these 7%+ yielders out there, you can find CEFs that win in every kind of market.So with a...

I have no idea why “income” investors mess around with dividend reinvestment plans (DRIPs). Most don’t yield enough to matter.If the goal is to retire on dividends, why not...