The 4% rule hands every retiree the same $40,000 answer and calls it planning, but a different approach lets your shares stay intact while your portfolio generates income that outpaces that ceiling…
Medicare's IRMAA surcharge punishes a single dollar of overage with a full bracket jump and no phase-in, yet some retirees collect six figures annually and never trigger it. The strategy depends on…
Pension checks vanished from most retirement plans a generation ago, leaving workers to solve an income puzzle their parents never faced. Four ETFs can recreate that monthly paycheck, but the trade-offs hiding…
PFF's monthly paycheck looks like a bond fund staple until you examine what the fund silently deducts, concentrates, and absorbs before that income ever reaches your account.
A Tuesday phone call ended 26 years of steady paychecks, and now a severance check sits on the kitchen table with no real retirement plan behind it. Four income ETFs can turn…
Three preferred stock ETFs dominate the income space and all promise yields that dwarf investment-grade bonds, but their fees, structures, and risks sit so far apart that picking the wrong one quietly…
Four income ETFs can replace the monthly paycheck most near-retirees assume only an annuity can deliver, but the math only works if you blend them the right way and accept one uncomfortable…
Infrastructure Capital Advisors just launched a new preferred stock ETF that charges more than its passive rivals, and whether that premium buys anything worth paying for depends entirely on how well the…
A $100K stake in the most popular preferred-stock ETF generates solid monthly income, but a lesser-known rival with a different strategy turns that same investment into a dramatically larger paycheck. The catch…
PFFA charges 2.11% while passive preferred ETFs cost a fraction of that, yet income investors keep choosing the pricier fund. The five-year performance gap between active and passive in the preferred market…
PFFA stacks leverage on top of preferred stocks to chase a nearly 10% yield, but the same rate environment that cuts borrowing costs also gives issuers every reason to pull the fund's…
If you own Virtus InfraCap U.S. Preferred Stock ETF (NYSEARCA:PFFA) for the income, the question that matters is whether that fat distribution will still be there next year. PFFA currently trades near…
Preferred stocks are one corner of the market where most retail investors are better served by an ETF than by buying individual securities directly. Convenience is part of the reason, but the…
Michael Douglas’ Oscar winning performance as Gordon Gekko in Wall Street (1988) had many of the best lines. One of the more memorable and funny ones was: “Their analysts don’t know…
PFF sends retirees a monthly check backed by the biggest names in American finance, but the word "safe" means something very different here than it does for almost any other income fund.
John Seetoo 
