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Investing
Warning: 3 High-Yield ETFs That Could Plunge By Next Year
Treasury yields are climbing fast, and some of the most popular income ETFs on the market are quietly becoming traps for unsuspecting investors chasing yield.
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iBoxx $ High Yield Corporate Bond ETF
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ETF
These 3 High-Yield ETFs Cost You Thousands If You Hold Them in the Wrong Account
The yield on the fact sheet and the yield that clears into your account are two very different numbers, and the gap between them comes down to one decision most investors make…
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ETF
JEPQ and HYG Both Pay Monthly Income, but Only One Survives When Credit Markets Crack
JEPQ and HYG both deliver monthly income, but they are built on completely different bets, and when credit markets crack, only one of those bets pays off while the other quietly bleeds…
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Investing
The ‘Fallen Angel’ Bond Fund Pays 6.5% and Has Beaten the Biggest Junk Fund for a Decade
A credit-market quirk forces institutional investors to sell bonds at a discount the moment they get downgraded, and one small ETF has spent a decade quietly collecting the difference while charging half…
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ETF
Want 6% Monthly Yield Without Touching the Riskiest Junk? This ETF Has a Clever Trick
When a bond gets stripped of its investment-grade status, pension funds dump it in a panic and prices collapse, which is exactly the moment one ETF swoops in to buy bonds from…
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Investing
Why Retirees Are Swapping 5% Bond Funds for Short Term Treasury ETFs
A 5.91% yield sounds like exactly what a retirement portfolio needs, but what comes along with that number is quietly pushing some retirees toward a fund that pays almost two full percentage…
David Beren 8:31pm ET
Investing
JNK’s 0.40% Fee Quietly Costs You $6,000 Over 20 Years
If you hold SPDR Bloomberg High Yield Bond ETF (NYSEARCA:JNK) for the yield, the fund’s marketing rarely mentions what you actually surrender to collect it. A 0.40% annual expense ratio sounds harmless…
5:00am ET
Investing
USHY Investors: Watch This 350 Basis Point Trigger Over the Next 12 Months
The iShares Broad USD High Yield Corporate Bond ETF (NYSEARCA:USHY) has quietly become the cheapest mainstream way to own US high-yield credit, with a net expense ratio of just 0.08% as of…
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Investing
EMB’s 6 Percent Emerging Market Bond Yield Hides Hard Currency Sovereign Default Risk Most Income Investors Have Never Modeled
The iShares J.P. Morgan USD Emerging Markets Bond ETF (NASDAQ:EMB) is the default vehicle for retirees and income investors seeking higher coupons than U.S. Treasuries without currency risk. EMB holds roughly $13…
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Personal Finance
How a 56-Year-Old Built a $1.4 Million Bridge Portfolio That Pays $7,200 a Month Through Year 10 of Retirement
Retiring at 56 with eleven years to bridge before Social Security begins at 67 creates one of the hardest funding gaps in personal finance. During that stretch, the portfolio has to carry…
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Personal Finance
A 62-Year-Old Engineer’s $1.1 Million Portfolio That Pays $5,800 a Month and Drops to $3,400 When Social Security Kicks In at 67
A 62-year-old engineer retiring today with $1.1 million and planning to wait until 67 to claim Social Security needs the portfolio to perform two very different jobs. From ages 62 through 67,…
5:52am ET
Personal Finance
A $2.2 Million Dividend Portfolio That Quietly Pays $13,200 a Month Without a Single MLP Tax Headache
A 67-year-old couple filing jointly with $2.2 million in investable assets wants to generate $13,200 per month, or $158,400 annually, in portfolio income without dealing with the tax complexity of Schedule K-1…
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Investing
This Corporate Bond ETF Is Yielding Above 6% Without The Drama
High-yield bond investors spent much of late March 2026 watching the VIX spike to almost 31 and bracing for a credit selloff that never quite arrived. Instead, the iShares iBoxx $ High…
Marc Guberti 6:52am ET
Investing
HYG Investors Collect 10% Gains Plus Stable Dividends This Year
iShares iBoxx $ High Yield Corporate Bond ETF (NYSEARCA:HYG) pays investors monthly income by holding a basket of U.S. dollar-denominated corporate bonds rated below investment grade. These bonds carry more credit risk…
Austin Smith 9:30am ET
Investing
6.7% yield with short duration gives HYG an edge over riskier bond funds
Monthly income from a bond ETF that has never missed a payment in 19 years sounds straightforward. But with iShares iBoxx $ High Yield Corporate Bond ETF (NYSEARCA:HYG), the real question is…
