There are hundreds of closed-end funds (CEFs) out there, and almost all of them have an investor they’re perfect for. I say “almost” because there are a few that are, in my view, not appropriate for ...

We love it when a stock “pays us back” in dividends. The faster, the better! Most people don’t get this luxury. They’re stuck “grinding it out” with the S&P 500’s 1% payers. Not us. We’re hunting for ...

The market has served us up a tidy opportunity on a closed-end fund (CEF) yielding an eye-popping 13.1%. What’s more, this fund is oversold, at a 12.1% discount to net asset value (NAV). Before I name ...

AI usage is booming. What does AI use? It uses energy. AI is a notable energy hog, so the local utility company was the ...

We’ve got an early start to the year-end tax-loss selling season to thank for this opportunity. Forget Year-End: The Best ...

Joblessness rose last month. And stocks jumped on the news. It’s weird. And it’s giving us a rare chance to pick up a well-funded 6.8% dividend for 12.3% off its “regular” price. This deal exists ...

But in March 2025, the Board cut it a whopping 32% from $1.565 to $1.0625 per share quarterly—from a juicy $6.26 to less so $4.25 a year—and, alongside the sale of its fiber business, set a new policy ...

It’s an app only Silicon Valley could come up with. One of its key selling points? It can help users root out the monthly subscriptions they signed up for and forgot about—and cancel them. I’m talking ...

Stock pundits have dogged first-level investors with this false dilemma for decades. They love to sort the world into neat piles for their hot takes, and they’ve decided that companies can either pay ...

Let’s go ahead and break down a recent “win” at my CEF Insider service: an unloved fund that handed us a 48% total return in 10 months! Why? Because this call went our way for plenty of reasons—and we ...

I’m hearing a lot from subscribers who are worried about rising rates. I get it. If you’re watching the financial news, it’s all they are talking about. And if you watch your portfolio (too?) closely, ...