The amount of capital you need to generate $5,700 a month in dividends can vary by more than a million dollars depending on one decision you make at the start, and that…
Four familiar dividend names have quietly slipped below every valuation benchmark they set over the past decade, yet each still funds its payout from earnings or cash flow. The question is whether…
Wes Moss has raised his retirement happiness target. Moss said during the October 20 Ask An Advisor section of The Clark Howard Podcast that his updated research for The Retire Sooner Method…
Social Security benefits rise 3.6% under the cost-of-living adjustment taking effect in 2027. The raise is applied to the check each retiree already gets, so it helps the benefit keep up with…
The top of the S&P 500 yield table is where income investors go looking first, and it is also where the market prices in its worries. A big yield often signals a…
Chasing the highest yield feels like the fastest route to a $9,600 monthly paycheck, but the math reveals a counterintuitive trap that could leave you earning less a decade from now than…
The size of your nest egg matters less than the yield you chase, and picking the wrong number could leave your income flat while prices keep climbing through your 80s.
Four high-yield giants are heading into year-end with payouts their own profits can cover, but each one carries a specific risk that could change the math fast.
Where you park a high-yield dividend portfolio matters as much as what you put in it, and the difference between the right account and the wrong one can quietly compound into a…
A Roth IRA turns every dollar of yield into spendable income with no federal tax, but the portfolio size you actually need at 60 depends on which yield tier you trust with…
A Roth IRA turns dividend income completely invisible to the IRS, but the account size you actually need depends on a yield tradeoff that most retirement guides gloss over entirely.
Getty Realty has handed investors 13 straight years of dividend raises and a yield near 7%, but its portfolio leans heavily on a single sector that carries risks most net-lease landlords avoid…
A 3.3% Social Security bump leaves most retirees short, but five blue-chip dividend payers across four sectors have quietly built the kind of growing income stream that picks up where the government…
Holding high-yield REITs in a taxable account hands the IRS a cut of every dividend for as long as you own the shares, but the Roth version of that same portfolio changes…
Realty Income has raised its dividend more than 135 times, but GAAP earnings keep missing estimates and the yield spread over Treasuries has nearly vanished. Understanding what actually funds those monthly checks…
Chris Lange 
