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 ...

I shook my head in disbelief as I whispered this unfolding “riddle” to my coaching buddy in the chair next to me. We were at the YMCA fall basketball meeting, sweating it out in the preschool room.

Look, we all know the old “truism” of investing: Want higher returns? You’d better be prepared to take on higher risk. That’s not always true, however. In fact, sometimes markets do strange things, ...

It’s September—traditionally the weakest month for stocks—and we contrarians are responding. We’ve got the (ugh!) midterms coming up. Tariff unpredictability has returned. And scorching long-term bond ...

When the world is burning—as it feels like it is now—it pays to remember the words of Howard Marks, the smartest money manager most people have never heard of. The essence of Marks’s approach is ...

You’ve no doubt heard the old Wall Street saw: “Sell in May and go away.” There’s one problem with it: It doesn’t tell us when to buy again. I mean, many investors take it to mean that the best time ...