Dividend funds pulled in $24.1 billion in the first quarter of 2026, their strongest opening quarter in four years, and a lot of that cash went looking for a boring place to…
Schwab U.S. Dividend Equity ETF (NYSEARCA:SCHD) pays a quarterly distribution from roughly 100 quality-screened U.S. dividend stocks. The fund holds $71.6 billion in assets at an expense ratio of just 0.06%, and…
The average Social Security retirement check reached $2,081 per month as of April 2026, according to the Social Security Administration’s monthly statistical data. That figure carries the 2.8% cost-of-living adjustment that took…
Dividend investors entering July 2026 have a rare setup: Three of the market’s most reliable income stocks all delivered beat-and-raise first-quarter reports, all hiked their payouts in the past 12 months and…
The iShares MSCI USA Momentum Factor ETF (NYSEARCA:MTUM) has run hard this year, climbing 30% year to date and 38% over the past 12 months to roughly $326. Headline numbers, though, mask…
What does retirement look like for someone who genuinely has no desire to leave home? No snowbird condo in Florida. No Viking river cruises. No RV parked outside Yellowstone. Just Chicago. The…
Big pharma is hunting again, and patent cliffs are forcing buyers to overpay or miss out. Three mid-cap biotechs have quietly positioned themselves as prime acquisition targets, but only one offers the…
I hit the buy button on AbbVie (NYSE:ABBV | ABBV Price Prediction) again last week, and I will hit it again the next time June’s macro noise hands me a discount. While…
Alex Sirois Most retirees shop for dividend portfolios the same way people shop for cars: they focus on what they get today. A portfolio yielding $90,000 a year feels like the retirement equivalent of…
At 64, with $1.1 million in a Traditional IRA, tax-deferred cash flow is the point. With the 10-year Treasury at 4.50% and the 30-year at 4.94%, dividend yields have to earn their…
Big Pharma's patent cliffs are forcing acquirers to hunt for revenue-producing biotech assets before rivals snap them up, and three names keep surfacing in deal speculation. One already has a natural buyer…
Big pharma’s appetite for clinical-stage biotech is back. The pending acquisition of Apogee Therapeutics by AbbVie (NYSE: ABBV | ABBV Price Prediction), targeting an atopic dermatitis and immunology developer, has reignited a…
The Health Care Select Sector SPDR ETF (NYSEARCA:XLV) is having a frustrating year. The fund sits at $149, down about 3% year-to-date while the broader market grinds higher. The good news for…
Ten thousand dollars a month works out to $120,000 a year, an income stream that exceeds the roughly $68,359 in per-capita disposable personal income reported by the Bureau of Economic Analysis for…
Income investors keep coming back to the same playbook in choppy markets: own businesses that have raised their payouts every single year, no matter what the economy is doing. June is a…
