Most retirement plans treat Social Security as a bonus, but pricing out what it actually takes to replace that monthly check from a private portfolio reveals just how much government backing most…
David Beren Five monthly paying ETFs are pulling income from covered calls, preferred stock, and junk bond coupons at yields that dwarf the 10-year Treasury, but the engine behind each payout changes everything about…
Goldman's GPIX pays out generous monthly distributions from its S&P 500 options strategy, but that income stream carries a hidden price tag that most fact sheets quietly skip over.
Two ETFs are racing to deliver 20% annual income from the S&P 500, but they take fundamentally different bets to get there, and the gap between them is costing some investors real…
With volatility sitting near historic lows and year-to-date gains piling up, three buffer ETFs are competing for nervous investors' attention, but the one promising total downside protection comes with a catch that…
Two funds chase the same short-Treasury yield, but one sends a tax bill every single month while the other lets gains sit untouched until you decide to sell. For high-bracket investors with…
Broadcom sat out the AI rally that sent its closest peers surging double digits, yet one major Wall Street desk just set a price target that would make it the biggest winner…
SoundHound's stock has cratered over the past year even as its revenue keeps beating expectations, and one prominent analyst sees that disconnect resolving in a dramatic way that would leave today's sellers…
Social Security sends 70 million retirees a larger check every January without anyone asking. A half-million-dollar bond portfolio just sits there, paying the same coupon it paid on day one, while a…
David Beren Fidelity Contrafund built a legendary reputation by zigging while Wall Street zagged, but managing $157.8 billion forces some uncomfortable questions about whether a fund this massive can still bet against the crowd…
While Wall Street pundits spent years writing the obituary for the balanced portfolio, one 90-year-old fund kept quietly compounding through rate shocks, drawdowns, and the critics. Here is why the death notice…
One of the biggest S&P 500 funds on the planet holds hundreds of billions in retirement savings, yet most of the people who own it have never seen its ticker and cannot…
Index funds were supposed to bury active management, yet one fund with $360 billion in assets keeps writing checks to private AI companies that indexers cannot touch. What Capital Group built inside…
Wall Street is nearly unanimous that Meta is a screaming buy, yet the stock keeps sliding while one analyst eyes a price target that sounds almost reckless. The story behind that gap…
AppLovin shed more than half its value in 2026 after a single earnings report triggered a collapse from a 52-week high near $746. Whether that drop reflects a broken growth story or…
