One of Amazon.com’s biggest attractions for its Amazon Prime subscribers is its internal infrastructure and logistics services. Warehouse hubs and e-cargo bikes in congested big cities allow for the same direct…
John Seetoo AMLP's quarterly payout just hit a record high and the five-year total return looks nothing like a typical high-yield trap, but one structural quirk baked into this ETF quietly erodes every distribution…
John Seetoo Cash yields keep slipping further this year. The Fed has held the funds rate at 3.5% to 3.75%, the FDIC national average 12-month CD pays just 1.71%, and the 10-year Treasury has…
AMLP and MLPX both hold the pipelines and terminals powering North American energy, yet a single structural difference between them has quietly produced a decade-long performance gap that income-focused investors rarely see…
Crude oil is the loudest macro story of 2026, and the cleanest way to express a view on it without owning physical barrels is through exchange-traded funds. This piece focuses on four:…
A retiree who wants $34,000 a year in pipeline income without filing a single K-1 schedule can get there with roughly $450,000 in master limited partnership ETFs. That implied yield, near 7.5%,…
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…
Income investors rely on Alerian MLP ETF (NYSEARCA:AMLP) for one reason: a fat, tax-advantaged distribution backed by toll-road economics on America’s hydrocarbon plumbing. AMLP just paid a $1.03 quarterly distribution in May,…
John Seetoo Global X MLP ETF (NYSEARCA:MLPA) pays quarterly cash distributions sourced almost entirely from operating cash flows of U.S. midstream master limited partnerships. Over the trailing four quarters, MLPA paid out $3.94 per…
Pulling in $9,800 a month from a portfolio without selling a single share is the kind of math that can completely reshape a retirement plan. That works out to $117,600 a year,…
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…
The Alerian MLP ETF (NYSEARCA:AMLP) is the kind of income vehicle that gets ignored at retirement planning meetings, even though it pays more than twice the 4.6% available on a 10-year Treasury.…
If you own the InfraCap MLP ETF (NYSEARCA:AMZA) for income, the question is simple: can the fund keep cutting those $0.34 monthly checks? AMZA pays a roughly 7.5% to 8% distribution yield…
WTI crude went from $57.97 a barrel in December 2025 to over $100 today. That kind of move hands a windfall to oil producers and gives their shareholders motion sickness in roughly…
Global X SuperDividend U.S. ETF (NYSEARCA:DIV) draws a consistent crowd of income-focused investors with a trailing dividend yield of 6.66% paid monthly. But a high yield is only worth celebrating if it…
