With the federal funds rate sitting at 3.75% and the 10-year Treasury yielding 4.13%, investors hunting for meaningful income have to venture well beyond government bonds. Three ETFs currently delivering above 10% yields do…
Four ETFs, each yielding above 6%, each paying monthly. On a $100,000 investment spread across these funds, the income math works out to more than $6,000 a year before taxes. That kind of cash…
For most of the past decade, owning international stocks felt like a punishment. U.S. markets compounded at rates that made global diversification look like a drag on returns. Then 2025 happened. Vanguard Total International…
Ethereum has lost roughly 61% of its value since the start of 2026. For traders holding ProShares Ultra Ether ETF (NYSEARCA:ETHT), a 2x daily leveraged product tied to Ethereum’s price, that decline has been…
The video game industry has quietly grown into a $300 billion global market, driven by mobile gaming, live-service revenue models, and a generation of consumers who treat gaming as their primary entertainment. The VanEck…
A caller on a March 2026 episode of The Dave Ramsey Show asked whether her nearly-40-year-old husband should invest more than 15% of their income given their late start on retirement savings. The couple…
YieldMax BRK.B Option Income Strategy ETF (NYSEARCA:BRKC) launched in June 2025 with a straightforward offer: take Berkshire Hathaway’s steady, low-volatility profile and layer an options income strategy on top to generate monthly distributions. For…
For retirees who spent decades building a portfolio aligned with their values, the final stretch of the journey presents a real tension: how do you maintain ESG principles while also generating income from international…
Retirees building income portfolios in 2026 face a genuine tension: bond yields have pulled back from recent highs, dividend stocks feel crowded, and the funds marketed as “rate-resilient” often look nothing like their names…
Unusual Whales Subversive Democratic Trading ETF (NYSEARCA:NANC) has a straightforward premise: if members of Congress are legally required to disclose their stock trades, why not just copy them? Since its February 2023 launch, the…
Prospect Capital (NASDAQ:PSEC) is a business development company that lends to middle-market businesses, collecting interest income and passing most of it to shareholders as monthly distributions. The yield looks compelling, but retirees evaluating this…
Buying Ethereum through a brokerage account used to mean navigating crypto exchanges, managing private keys, and worrying about custody. The iShares Ethereum Trust ETF (NASDAQ:ETHA) offers direct exposure to ETH’s price inside a standard…
Cap-weighted index funds have a structural quirk that most investors overlook: the more a stock’s price rises, the more of your money gets automatically funneled into it. With NVIDIA, Apple, and Microsoft now representing…
For years, the knock on ESG investing was simple: you sacrifice returns to feel good about your portfolio. The data from ESGU tells a different story. What ESGU Is Actually Built to Do iShares…
EMB has paid monthly distributions consistently ranging between $0.38 and $0.42 per share throughout 2025 and into 2026. For retirees building a predictable income stream, that cadence matters. However, as of May 12, 2026,…
“The chip cycle is moving so fast that even the biggest infrastructure deals can’t keep up.” That line from CNBC’s Deirdre Bosa captures the core tension now rattling AI infrastructure investors. OpenAI reportedly walked…
Most retirees know their Social Security benefits might be taxed. Fewer know exactly which number determines how much. That number is called combined income, and where you land relative to the IRS thresholds will…
Eight hundred thousand dollars sounds like a lot. For a single retiree in 2026, it can sustain a livable retirement, but not a comfortable one without careful management. The math is tighter than most…
Expense ratios are small numbers that compound into large differences over decades. A fund charging nothing costs exactly that. FZROX, Fidelity’s Zero Total Market Index Fund, has charged investors 0.00% since its August 2018…
Retirees hunting for income above what Treasuries offer have been gravitating toward emerging market dividend ETFs, and SPDR S&P Emerging Markets Dividend ETF (NYSEARCA:EDIV) sits near the top of that conversation. With a 4.28%…
