Treasury yields near historic highs are squeezing REIT payouts from one side while refinancing costs gnaw from the other, and CRED's three biggest holdings each face that pressure in a different way.
The Amplify Seymour Cannabis ETF (NYSEARCA:CNBS) has rallied sharply in 2026, with shares up 105% over the past year and 9% in just the last week. Income-focused investors eyeing that chart and the fund’s…
SRLN pays monthly income from senior corporate loans and currently yields around 6.5%, but the size of that check is controlled by one outside force that most investors underestimate before they buy in.
The industrial REITs and self-storage names inside INDS are telling two very different stories right now, and which one dominates your income depends on knowing exactly where the cracks are forming.
SPDV screens the S&P 500 for high-yield value stocks and has returned 27% over the past year, but one top holding just posted negative free cash flow while writing dividend checks. Here is what…
EINC has handed investors a 30% return in six months while paying out a modest 3.6% yield, and that disconnect raises an uncomfortable question about where the real risk in this fund actually lives.
Japan is having a moment. The MSCI Japan benchmark has delivered an unhedged return of about 13% year to date through late May, while the currency-hedged version has tacked on closer to 18%. That…
The S&P 500 is up about 8% year to date. The same money parked in iShares MSCI Emerging Markets ex China ETF (NASDAQ:EMXC) is up roughly 29.2%. Broad emerging markets funds like iShares Core…
Three of the largest U.S. equity index funds on the market look like clones at first glance. Vanguard 500 Index Fund ETF (NYSEARCA:VOO), iShares Core S&P 500 ETF (NYSEARCA:IVV), and Schwab U.S. Large-Cap ETF…
Value stocks with real dividend income have kept pace with, and in one case beaten, a market that growth and AI names dominated for three straight years. The three ETFs worth a serious look…
International developed stocks have spent 2026 quietly embarrassing the S&P 500, and the three ETFs covered here let you collect a paycheck while it happens. Amplify CWP International Enhanced Dividend Income ETF (NYSEARCA:IDVO), Schwab…
The ticker investors used to know as VanEck Gaming ETF (NASDAQ:BJK) officially converted to the VanEck Digital Native Economy ETF on April 9, 2026, trading under the new symbol GENZ. The fund still sits…
Many retirees who decided to buy the JP Morgan Equity Premium ETF (NYSE: JEPI) were wowed by its 8% yield and JP Morgan pedigree after seeing it advertised on Fox Business News and…
Elon Musk’s most fundamental advice to entrepreneurs looking to get investors to launch a new technology was to build a working prototype. Musk succinctly separated theory from tangible reality when he said: “Everything looks…
Income investors who own Putnam BDC Income ETF (NYSEARCA:PBDC) just absorbed a meaningful distribution cut. PBDC paid $0.71273 per share in April 2026, down from $0.8251 the prior quarter, a roughly 14% step down.…
Westwood Salient Enhanced Midstream Income ETF (NYSEARCA:MDST) has paid $0.225 per share every month for 26 straight months, with no cuts and no skipped payments. At a recent price of about $29, that monthly…
The Pacer Emerging Markets Cash Cows 100 ETF (NYSEARCA:ECOW) screens developing-market companies for high free cash flow yield, then funnels that cash back to holders through quarterly distributions. ECOW trades around $27 after a…
The Columbia Research Enhanced Real Estate ETF (NYSEARCA:CRED) pays a 3.64% distribution funded by the dividends of its underlying REITs, and that yield is the entire reason most income investors are looking at it.…
The VanEck Energy Income ETF (NYSEARCA:EINC) paid $0.8067 per share for its May 2026 distribution, the latest installment in a quarterly cash stream that has run uninterrupted for 14 years. Investors lean on EINC…
Schwab International Dividend Equity ETF (NYSEARCA:SCHY) trades around $32 and pays a 30-day SEC yield of roughly 3.9%, giving income investors access to cash dividends from large, established companies in Europe, the UK, Australia…
