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Steven M. Peters
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When a retiree pulls money from her IRA in May and converts more to a Roth in December, two states and the federal government divide the spoils in ways that have nothing to do…
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PFF's headline yield draws retirees chasing income, but the fund sponsor's own performance table tells a different story about what investors actually kept after five years of payouts.
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Investors poured half a billion dollars into a gold fund that most people have never heard of, bypassing the world's most famous bullion ETF for a quiet reason buried in the fine print.
Two ETFs built around durable businesses use completely different definitions of what makes a company worth owning, and for investors approaching retirement, that disagreement shapes every dollar they hold.
Two option-income ETFs sell calls against the same index, pay nearly identical yields, and yet one nearly doubled the other's total return over the past year. The way each fund is built explains why.
A seven-figure windfall hitting one tax return can hand the IRS a third of the check, but advisors have a fully legal move that must be locked in before the money becomes available to…
