Income investors holding the VictoryShares US Large Cap High Div Volatility Wtd ETF (NYSEARCA:CDL) own a fund built around one premise: large American companies with stable share prices tend to pay reliable…
Wages fluctuate. Bonuses get cut. Side hustles burn out. Dividend income, by contrast, lands in a brokerage account on a schedule the holder did not negotiate and a boss cannot revoke. For…
The VictoryShares US Large Cap High Div Volatility Wtd ETF (NASDAQ:CDL) pulls its distribution from dividends paid by large U.S. companies that have screened in for both yield and lower realized volatility.…
Founded in 1869, Goldman Sachs is the world’s second-largest investment bank by revenue and is ranked 82nd on the Fortune 500 list of the largest U.S. corporations by total revenue. The Wall…
On a recent Prof G Markets segment, data center veteran John Perella described a near-miss in Virginia that should focus every infrastructure investor’s attention. “9 data centers went offline or they went…
Earned income has a ceiling. Passive income arrives whether you work or not, whether markets are calm or chaotic, whether the economy is expanding or contracting. For income-focused investors, the goal is…
The S&P 500 is down 7% year-to-date. VPU is up 7% over the same stretch. That divergence is exactly what utilities are supposed to do. What VPU Is Actually Designed to Do…
The VIX has climbed 41% in a single month, sitting at 26.95 and in the 93rd percentile of the past year’s readings. For retirement investors who felt last April’s volatility spike to…
Utilities have long been the portfolio’s boring backbone: predictable dividends, regulated cash flows, and a tendency to hold up when riskier assets sell off. Fidelity MSCI Utilities Index ETF (NYSEARCA:FUTY) packages that…
History shows that midterm election years aren’t always great years for the S&P 500. Are you properly protected against the full blow of a 2026 market crash? Probably not, but there are…
Financial objectives and risk tolerance will, as you’re probably well aware, change as individuals progress through the various stages of life. Investing at 60+ simply isn’t the same as investing at 30,…
If the Federal Reserve starts cutting rates in 2026, a specific category of stocks could see their valuations expand like a compressed spring finally released. Lower borrowing costs don’t just make debt…
Retiring at 67 with $6,500 in monthly income places you solidly in middle-class territory, but the financial reality behind that figure is more nuanced than it appears. The average Social Security retirement…
Watch the Video Lee and I discussed one of the most overlooked realities of artificial intelligence. None of it works without electricity. For a while, there was a belief that data centers…
These four highest-yielding S&P 500 utility stocks are strong buys for 2026 after a big pullback.
