Turning a $50,000 income stream into a $100,000 income stream sounds like it should require another million dollars, a lucky stock pick, or a second career. Sometimes it requires none of those…
Most homeowners think of the mortgage as a bill that arrives every month and must be paid. Investors can frame it differently: as an income goal. Instead of asking how to come…
The SNPD ETF (NYSEARCA:SNPD) takes a narrower path than the standard Dividend Aristocrats index. Instead of requiring 25 years of consecutive dividend hikes, SNPD uses a 10-year minimum dividend growth screen to…
A Utah couple with two children and four grandchildren nearby has a retirement goal that has nothing to do with yachts or sports cars. They want to be the grandparents who can…
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…
Picture two retirees with the same nest egg making opposite choices. One locks in $80,000 a year today with little growth. The other accepts $50,000 a year today, growing at 8% annually.…
The Fed’s pivot toward a rate-hike bias changes the math for a 67-year-old with $1.5 million in a 401k. Bond reinvestment risk just got more interesting, but equity duration got more dangerous.…
The latest Powerball jackpot stood at roughly $269 million, with a cash option of about $120.5 million before taxes. That would solve all your financial problems, but the odds are not great:…
A 67-year-old with a $650,000 portfolio and a Social Security check looks at New Orleans and sees a city that seems surprisingly affordable compared with many coastal retirement destinations. Home prices remain…
Generating a six-figure income from a $500,000 portfolio through yield alone is largely unrealistic. Doing so would require a payout approaching 20%, a level that few investments can sustain for long. The…
The average retired worker receives about $24,000 a year from Social Security. Add a modest part-time job, the kind many retirees take for supplemental income rather than career advancement, and total annual…
A $1 million portfolio is often discussed as though the balance itself answers the retirement question. It does not. What matters is the amount of income that ultimately reaches your bank account…
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…
Procter & Gamble (NYSE:PG | PG Price Prediction) and Colgate-Palmolive (NYSE:CL) both just reported, and the earnings reports sharpened a debate dividend investors have been having for years. P&G posted its fiscal…
The stock market isn’t going to fall again, at least in this century. The S&P is up 8% this year. It is up 25% in the last year, and 80% over the…
