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PBDC was mentioned below COPX is an option. * **PDBC:** Invests in liquid futures contracts across a broad spectrum of commodities, including energy (oil, gas), precious metals (gold, silver), industrial metals, and agriculture. It is actively managed to minimize the cost of rolling futures contracts ("contango"). * **COPX:** Invests in a portfolio of stocks of companies involved in copper mining, smelting, and refining. It is a passive, index-tracking fund that behaves more like an equity ETF than a raw commodity fund.
The deposit limit 7500 a year Now yes if you can increase the money going in you can have a larger retirment fund in retirement. Growth index funds do from titmice to time have 20% gains in a year. but the long term average total return for growth index funds is 10% Historically any good dividned fund with about 10% yield will over the long term do as well as growth index funds. And there is no limit on dividend income into a roth. So if you invest in finds like QQQI 13% yield, EIC 11%. ARDC 9%m, PBDC 9%, EMO 9%, CLOZ 8%, UTF 7% the dividends flowing into the account can be much larger than the yearly deposit. I currently have 500K in my roth and due to income limits I cannot deposit any money. But the dividend income into the accoutbnb is currently 50k per year. That is 6 times higher than the current deposit limit. Meaning my protfolio is growing as fast as what you would get over the long term with growth index funds.
If you look away from money market accounts, HYSA, and government bond funds you can get dividend funds that have yields of 5 to 10%. Dividend are cash payment made directly into your brokerage acount. You don't see the dividend stock together the money. I a retired and living off of my dividend inomt of 5K a month. Funds I am using are QQQI 13% yeild, ARDC 9%, PBDC 9%, EMO 9%, CLOZ 8%, UTF 7%, UTG 6.4% JAAA 5.5%.
for starters Exchange traded fund come in my different varieties. you are currently investing in grwoth index funds. There are also many ETFs that invest in government bonds, corperate bonds. loan obligastions, and funds that specifically invest for dividends. And all of these make cash dividend payments to you on a quarterly or monthly schedule. While growth index funds produce a lotto growth they produce a tiny dividendOf 1%. ARDC, PBDC, EMO, or AC RE are all funds that pay a dividend of 9% or more. Much higher than the interest of high yield savings account. With your current investing stratagy what is the one thing that limits your ability to grow the protfolio quickly? Money! after all our bills and living expense most have very little left to invest. If you put dividend funds in your account you can use the dividend to buy more growth than you can currently can. Also in a taxable account you can use the dividend income to cover regular monthly bills. I retired early at 55 with 5k a month of income from my ETF and CEF funds. I was late to realize what dividends could do. If I had learned this 10 years earlier I could have retired much earlier. Now there is down side. You ow taxes on the dividned received. But it is almost always less than 34% of the income, and is for many people taxed at 24% or less. Do you know of anyone that has turned down pay raise due to the additional tax?
For those wanting to retire early by selling stock for income the recomendation is to have 25 time your living expenses. for dividned you could get buy with about 2.5 times living expenses. The key is to aim for yields of about \^% to about 12%. I'm using funds like QQQI 13% yield , EIC 11%, ARDC 9%, PBDC 9%, EMO 9%, CLOZ 8%, UTF 7%, UTG 6.4%JAAA 5.5 % for dividend income For more fund ideal look at Armchair income on youtube. He is investing exclusively for dividend income in retirment.
don't restriction search to funds with the lowest expense ratio possible. You only need to exam the expense of the fund when you are looking at 2 or more nearly ideentical funds. So by restricting the search to the lowest expenses you got a list of mainly growth fund. Growth funds are very good. Since they only follow an index they are so simple computers can do most of the day to day operations of the fund. Leading to low extremely low expenses. some specialty funds Lime MLPS and BDC dividned funds will probably be excluded. MLPs funds have to deal with K1 tax forms which tax processing fees to the expenses. BDC are subject o a flawed SEC rule that requires them the add associated expense to the funds expense. The funds never pay this expense which is about 13%, PBDC has a yield of 9% a real expense of o.7 and BIZD 11%yield has real expense of 0.4. Yet PBDC has the higherI total return. It is not ideal to have a protfolio of just grwoth. Retirement account have deposit limits. which will limit the size of your portfolio by the time you retire. Having some high dividned funds in there will add cash flow into your account beyond what you get with just growth funds or gobvernment bond funds. I have PBDC, EMO both 9% yields in and QQQI in my portfolio for this very reason. The high dividend yield from these funds early exceed the $7500 deposit limit of my roth. The higher cash flow into the account allows the portfolio to grow faster.
Must be friday All the anti dividend /Passive income people have spammed this post. yes safe bonds and HYSA don't pay much in yields. But there are dividend funds that pay much higher yields. QQQI (A covered call fund) for example has a 13% yield. Not the highest yield available from cover d call funds but It doesn't have any of the problems the higher yield funds have. 4.5 invested in this fund will produce $585 a year not much. But is you deposit 500 a month for 10 years you will have 125K and the yearly dividend of 16k a year. A little over 1K a month. And you pay less taxes on the dividends so it is a tax efficient fund. The key to high dividend income is to consistently depositing money every month to build up a large portfolio. Not covered call funds are not the only choices In addition to QQQI I have ARDC 9% yield, PBDC 9%, EMO 9%, CLOZ 8%, UTF 7%, UTG 6.4% and JAAA 5.5% I have these in my roth and they are currently pumping about 5K a month into my roth. I also have some in a taxable brokerage account so I can access the cash now.
Well if you 5years away from retirment I am going to assume you have built up quit a bit of money in retirment. Why not take 150K and invest that in dividend funds to generate the 15K a year. This close to retirment you should be making plans on how you are going to extract money from your retirment accounts. If you take 166K and invest it in ARFDC 9% yield, PBDC 9% yield, EMO 9% yield they will generate 15K a year of cash inflow into your account That way your retimrent account would still grow by 15K a year.
At some point people need money from their investments. Now you can sell for income or invest for dividends. I am 55 and my current dividend income is 5K month and I retired and that covers my basic living expenses. By age 60 when I have access to my retirement account I should have 10K a month of dividned income. My dividend investments right now are QQQI 13% yield, ARDC 9%, PBDC 9%, EMO 9%, CLOZ 8%, UTF 7%, UTG 6.4%, JAAA 5.5%
from what I see SPYG and VIoo are very similar They both use the same index but SPYG use only stock in the index with the highest growth. SPYG is going to be harder in a downturn. I would go with VOO and VXUS. individual stocks (defensive individual stocks and AI/tech stocks) make sense for my situation? For defensive I would invest in dividned funds. That way when the market crashes and you have no cash your dividend funds would provide some income to invest when the market is down. I would invest in fund that invest in companes that pay a higher dividend because the Law requires them to. PBDC and EMO are my choices and both have yields of 9%. If you don't have money these found would provide you with income you could use for yourself or you could invest the funds into VOO and VXUS. I would with Fidelity. Been using them for years with no problem.
Inflation often comes in one short surge than drops. The long term average inflation rate in the US is 3.2%. So it will probably not be as bad as you think but the future is unpredictable. I suggest you look into a different retirment stratagy that doesn't involve drawing down your portfolio. Let's assume you need 100K to cover living expenses in retirment. you could set asside 1million in your portfolio into dividend funds and get about 100K in dividends. Dividends are profits of your investors distributed to you as cash without selling shares. There are people that have retired on 200K of dividend income per year. Also on risk no one plans for is an injury or medical issues that prevents you from working. Effectively forcing people to retire early. One thing you can do is to invest in dividend income in a taxable acccount. I retired early with 5K a month comming from dividend funds in my taxable account. I would suggest you read the book The Income Factory. And Armchair income on youtube is a good resource for fund ideas for an income factory. Some of my favorite dividend investment are QQQI 13% yield, ARDC 9%, PBDC 9%, EMO 9%CLOZ 8%, UTF 7%, UTG 6.4% and JAAA 5.5%. You can add government / cooperate bonds and municipal funds.
One thing to keep in mind mathematically the fast you put money into your roth today the bitter your final account size. While the tax befits of the roth are great they deposit limit is 1/3 of the deposit limit in a 401K. So it would be advantagous for you to add some dividend income your roth portfolio. Two god funds to use are PBDC and EMO. Both have a dividend of 9% higher than most companes because they follow different US laws that require them to pay high yields.They are not significantly higher risk than most dividend stock and have significatnly less volatility than VOO. The cash from the dividends can be split and added to all the funds in your portfolio. The current Roth deposit limit is $7500 I am approaching age 560 and dividends in my roth are adding 4K a month to my portfolio which is used to by more shares.
All the funds you list are growth index funds with minimal differences in risk and often with overlap. Nothing I would consider spice in a portfoli Try ARDC 9%yield, PBDC 9%,EMO 9% CLOZ 8%, QQQI 13%.. Thes will add a lot of dividends to your portfolio. which can be used to by more of other fund or more dividend funds. right now in your roth you are limited to investing $7500 per year. I you take 30K from VTI / VXXUS and put that in EMO you would boost the yearly cash flow into your Roth to $10,200 a year You can put the dividend, VTI, VXUS or EMO. The dividends funds would also work in a taxable account. But QQQI in addition to having the highest yield is also a tax efficient fund. So in the taxable account. build up the dividend income from it to 7500 and use that income to make your yearly roth deposit. And keep adding more to the taxable accounts and more dividend income fund. you can use to pay your bills And eventually you would have enough to cover all of your living expenses.
Generally the starter recommendation is to establish a retirment acount and deposit the maximum allowable (if possible) and establish about 6 months of living expenses theIRA don't invest the money you put into it. You have to choose the investments and how much of the money goes into each fund. After that many people just stop. My recomendation is that the emergency fund should be in a money market account in taxable brokerage and then I would start slowly building a dividend fund. Dividend fund distribute their earnings quarterly or month though cash dividend payment directly to your brokerage account. that money can then be invested or spent as you wish. I would slowly build up money in this fund and then when it exceeds $600 a month invest the dividend income in the Roth and continue to build the dividend fund in the taxable account. Any extra dividend income can then be used to pay uitility, gas, food bills while you continue to add money the dividend fund. The overall goal is to eventually have enough dividend income to cover your living expenses so your work income could be deverted to other uses. This would also insure you have income if you loose your job or cannot work for midical reasons. I now have enough dividned income to cover all of my living expenses. About 5K a month. QQQI is a good starter fund for a taxable brokerage account13% yield and it is tax efficient fund. It would also work well inside the roth with VOO keep 50% of your deposit in QQQI and 50% in VOO in the roth. You could also di the same in taxable brokerage. Eventually you could deversify to other dividned funds. My Roth it is just invested in dividend funds. I am currently using QQQI 13% yield, EIC 11%, ARDC 9%, PBDC 9%, EMO 9%, CLOZ 8%, UTF 7%, UTG 6.4%, JAAA 5.5%. And you could VOO to that if you want.
It really comes down to what you’re optimizing for: yield, max drawdown, or total alpha, etc. I’ve been tracking these on my [**Dividend Radar**](https://dividend-radar.azurewebsites.net/), and while **IGLD** and **IAUI** were consistent Top 5 staples for months, last week’s volatility pushed their valuations into 'Expensive' territory, so they've actually dropped off my leaderboard for now (i suspect not for long). I usually wait for that 'Cheap' signal to trigger before I pull the trigger on a new position. If you’re debating a specific list for 2026, I built a comparison mode that lets you stack them up side-by-side. You can swap in your own tickers here to see the spread: [**2026 Dividend Sector Comparison (FSCO, ARCC, PBDC, etc.)**](https://www.google.com/search?q=https://dividend-radar.azurewebsites.net/%3Fticker%3DFSCO%7CPBDC%7CARCC%7CCEFS%7CPFFA%7CWDI%7CJBBB%7CEICC%7CUTG%7CCLOZ) Just replace the tickers in the URL with whatever you're deciding between to see the current ranking.
First off build your emergency fund and invest in your employers retirement plan or a roth if they don't have one. Growth index funds are find one theretirment account. If you want to be able to access the money then I suggest you open a taxable brokerage and invest in dividend funds. Dividend funds produce passive income. You don't have to sell shares to get the income. The passive income will be invaluable if you loose your job and unlike a cash emergency fund the passive income will not run out of money. you Couldstart out with a fund like QQQI 13% yield and it is tax efficient. For now simply have the dividends reinvested. But it is a good idea to have multiple funds which invest differently. If you have need fro the money you can turn off the dividend reinvestment and just collect the cash in a money market fund. With 50K invested in QQQI it will generate about $500 a month. As you gradually build the income you could start using the income to cover monthly bills and maybe eventually get enough income to cover all of your living expenses. Allowing you to invest more of your work income. I have been working on this for a while and I get 5K a month of income from dividends which is enough to cover all of my living expenses in a high cost of living area. I am currently using the following funds for income QQQI 13% yield, SpYI 11%, EIC 11%, ARDC 9%, PBDC 9%, EMO 9%, CLOZ 8%, UTF 7%, UTG 6.3%, JAAA 5.5%, I was able to retire at age 55. But if I started dividend investing earlier I would have retired much earlier. Now you could have a growth index fund like VOO in the account as well.
Using an interest calculator you need a dividend yield of about 10%. There are a number of funds that pay reliable yields. Funds I have that satisfy this requirement are QQQI 13%yield, SPYI 11%ARDC 9%, PBDC 9%, and EMO 9%. CLOZ8% Now You could put it all in QQQI 13%. But QQQI is a quality covered call fund that invest in Nasdaq 100 index. So if the market stays stable you will reach your goal. However if the market crashes you won't. because the share price will suddenly drop and it may take months to recover. You are probably better off having a little invested in all of the funds I have listed. Adjust the money in each to reach a yield of 10%. In one year or reinvesting all dividneds you will be at about j and in 2you should be at about 300K. At that point you could sell the funds to get the money to purchase the home. And if you decide to not purchase a new home in 2 years you can continue to reinvest the money. Invested this way in 7 years your 250K will be 500K . Additionally 250k invested this way will produce about 2K month of income. So you could conceivably buy the home with a loan and use the income from the fund to pay off the mortgage.
the long term average total return of S&P500 is 10% during the 2000 to 2010 lost decade it was closer to 5% per year. Also as we get older risk tolerance typically drops. So there are many like you that feel trapped because they cannot stomach the volatility of the S&P500 and yet they need to invest. One simple stratagy is outlined in teethe Book the income factory. It is worth your reading. Basically you are probably better off investing for dividends rather than growth. Good dividend funds don't have a the volatility of the S&P500. and dividend funds typically do much better than growth in bear markets like long decades. And seeing income coming in really helps calm peoples fears of the market volatility. I am aproaching age 60 and I am heavily investing in funds like EIC 11% yield, ARDC 9%, PBDC 9%, EMO 9%, CLOZ8%. that averages 10%. And everything political happening now has had no effect on on 5K a month of income from funds like these. IF you have a good job and can invest enough income you can get a decent income by age 60. But not you may have to use a taxable account as well as a retirment accountant. IRAs often has a rather low deposit limit of 7500 per year. 401K hav a deposit limit of about $21000 a year which has aa very big impact on the size of your portfolio. at 60. So you may want to have taxable account with no contribution limit or withdrawal date limit or penalties. Yes you will ba paying taxes but once you get start getting significnant income you can start usingN the income to pay bills and other expenses freeing up additional money for investing. And then you can use a Roth IRA to start building tax freedividend income you cause after 60. One advantage of investing fro yields around 10% is that the ammount of money you need to save up is generally smaller than the ammount you would need in growth index fund only portfolio. 500K invested at 10% yield is 50K a year of income. To get that income from a typical growth portfolio the 4% rule recommendation would require about1.25 million. Note I also have covered call funding my portfolio these funds are just as volatile as growth index fund bu the yield if also high and an they are also tax efficient so you pay less for the income I hav BTCI 30% yeild, QQQI, 13%, and SPYI 11%. I mainly use these to generate income which is mostly reinvested into other non covered call ETF to grow my stable income ETFs. And I also have some growth funds I can use at anytime if there is an issue with my dividned portfolio or I have a bug unplanned expense.
Long term investing has been (relatively) easy for the last 100 years or so. Buying the S&P 500 and resisting to urge to sell when things feel uncertain was arguably the only advice an investor needed to succeed. The firs growth index fund became available around 1980. retirment funds also became available at about the same time. But both don't really become widely available until about 90's. Prior to 1980 the common investing stratagy was to invest for dividned stocks and and picking growth stocks. And what you are seeing today is not really different than what people were seeing in the late 90's if you subtract everything trump does. Investing and holding the S&P500 but good investors don't stoop there or stop at the 6 month emergency fund. Some people now are starting to add more bond and dividend funds. in Bear markets growth can be hard to find. But dividends keep common and pond keep paying. and don't limit yourself to fund paying a divined of 5%There are good dividend funds that pay %% to about 10%. I like QQQI 13% yield, SPYI 11%, ARDC 9%, PBDC 9%, EMO 9%, PFFA 9%, CLOZ 8%, UTF 7%, UTG 6.3%, JAAA 5.5. Another thing people do is after their retirement funds and 6 month emergency fund are setup people start investing for dividends in a Taxable account. Why we all have mostly bills to pay including home mortgages and rent. Everyone is hemorrhaging money monthly. So some people start investing for dividends in a taxable to with a goal of covering common monthly bills. It takes time but eventually you could get enough income to cover much or all or your monthly expenses.
In general as the dividend of a fund increase the growth decreases. Dividend fund in general continue to pay even whine the market price drops. So by switching your investments a bit more into dividend you are erectly switching for fixed income instead of growth and reducing your risk. Also the S&P500 index has a long term average growth rate of about 10%. There are funds and stocks that do have dividends close to 10%. So in your roth you could add commp funds that invest in companes that are not a big part of the S&P500. For example ARCC is a BDC there are no BDCs in the S&P500. ARCC has a yield of 9% which is common for BDC and since the companes founding the stock has performed a bit better than the index. When the growth index has a down year ARCC keeps paying its dividend and pulls a bit ahead. The are a number of f=good BDC so I invested in PBDC and the other is BIZD. In my roth Ihave funds like QQQI 13% yield,EIC 11%, ARDC9%, PBDC 9%, EMO 9% CLOZ 8%. So if the index is down I can use the dividend to invest in VOO or any other growth index you have. And in years when growth does very well you could sell some of the growth and lock that money into high dividends funds with have a comparable return and reduce your risk of over concentatration in the magnificent 7. For 401Ks you are limited on your fund choices so for dividend you may be limited to bond funds so you may be forced to use lower dividend yields. One other advantage having dividned funds in Roth or retirment fund is that if you become unemployed you will still have money flowing into the fund. With now I cannot depoist into my roth because my income is too high but the dividend funds are depositing 5K a month of income into my roth.
you could set up a custodial account and gift your daughter money. you don't have to report a gift of 19K to the IRS. The gift could also be stock you currrently own. Then invest the money in the custodial account. Many growth investors would just use growth index funds. The other thing you can invest in are dividend ETFs. you could slowly build up position in fund like QQQI 13% yield, ARDC 9%, PBDC 9%, EMO 9%. CLOZ 8%. IF you reinvest the dividend and make regular gifts to her. When she is ready transfer the fund to hear and she can use the money dividend to help establish her life. When she is an adult the monthly income could be several thousand a month for the rest of her life. Assuming she doesn't spend it al and liquidate the funds. So the other part about this is more difficult you have to teach her to manage money and investing. And a part of that is understanding how taxes work and how to estimate taxes. All the skils needed to be successful in life. 5
I would invest the 350K in dividend ETF like QQQI 13% yield, ARDC 9%, PBDC 9%, EMO9% CLOZ 8%. With an equal amount of money in each you would get an average yield 35of about 10%. This would produce 35K a year of income which would cover most of your monthly bills allowing you to divert more of your work into to investments in preparation for retirment. You are basically at a point in life that you should be investing for income. You are basically about one medical issue away from being forced to retire instead of working until you want to retire.
If you want to retire at age 30 I would invest the money in dividend funds such as QQQI 13% yield, ARDC 9%, PBDC 9%, EMO 9%, CLOZ 8% dividend funds generate income and when you reach age 30 you are going to need that income the cover your living expense. Many in retirment sell off growth funds at 4% per year to cover living expenses but selling 4% per year will only provide you with income for 30 years. 30 years of income is fine for someone retiring at age 60 because most people die before age 90. But the 4% liquidation rate won't work if you retire at ago 30. Furthermore you will need to use a taxable brokerage account. Retirement account won't work because it is difficult to on withdrawal money before age 60. Also many people gocus on investing in growth index funds in retirement account and will tell you to convert the goth funds to dividend funds right at age 60. No that advice will work with tax deferred retirement accounts. But it isn't good advice for you because you will be paying a lot in taxes to convert growth to dividend. So the best advice for you is to star with dividends now and build up the dividend income and if you have enough dividend income at age 30 retire.
Business development companies (BDCs) loan money to companes. The law that governs them requires them to pay out 90% of their earnings as dividends. If they don't they get a tax penalty. So the yields for BDC is in the range of 8% to 12%. ARCC and MAIN are two very good ones. Ther are 2 ETFs that invest only in BDCs , PBDC 9% yield actively managed expense ratio 0.75%. BIZD 11% passively managed BDC index fund expense ratio of 0.4%. Bot are good. But note SEC has a rule that apples to BDC that requires them to post an expense ratio of 13%. This 13% expense is snot real. It is the estimated expenses of the BDC stock these funds hold. But the EFTs never pay BDC expenses. The expenses I listed are the real expenses fro these funds. these ETF are great in any portfolio.
First step would be to increase if possible the amount deposited per month in your IRA. IF that is not possible you can open a Roth IRA at any brokerage That would allow you to save another $7000 for retirement. With both IRA and Roth their restrictions on whithdrawaling the money before age 60. IF you want access to the money at any time without restriction you need to open up a taxable brokerage account. Many with growth investments in their retirment accounts will continue with the same growth investments in a taxable account. But others prefer to invest for income in the taxable account. a good money market funds is equivalent to a bank High yield savings ac counts. I encourage you to keep 6 months of cash in brokerage money market account. But any additional money should go into a high yield dividend funds CLOZ is one very safe fund to use with a 8% yield Don't automatically reinvest the dividends. When the cash dividned is payed it will then show up as cash in you money market account. You can then use the money to pay bills or other expenses or reinvest the money in a Roth account or invest the money in CLOZ. Never sell shares of CLOZ. If you sell shares of CLOZ the dividends will stop coming. Now you can invest in other dividend ETF than CLOZ. QQQI has a yield of 13% and you pay less tax on the dividend income. QQQI has more risk than CLOZbutit has the very desirable yield. Now yields above QQQI are available but many of those funds don't last long and you gradually loose your original deposit. I am currently getting 5K a month from my taxable brokerage acc count using QQQI, SPI, EIC, ARDC, PBDC, EMO, CLOZ, UTF, UTG, JAAA. overall this has a yield of about 10%. Now to get 5K a month form such an account you need to gradually over time depoist 500K into the dividend portfolio. The rewards of having this much passive income are worth it.
Almost all investors have a cash account. And most of the time it is in bank or taxable brokerage account. Partially for emergencies and pratially to help handle the big unexpected bill. But that said the cash account is the first step in the a taxable account. A emergency cash fund won't last long is you loose your job in recession. It could take form than a year to find a new job. FPassive income is better because the money will not run out. A fund like CLOZ 8% will pay a dividend (passive income. It will take time to build up the money in CLOZ to get meaningful passive income from it. If you don't need the passive income simply reinvest the funds. Or use the money to fund your Roth account or pay monthly bills. But it things go bad turn off any automatic dividend reinvestments. The dividends will then show up as a cash depoist into your money market account. I realize this in my 50s and took some excess growth I had in a taxable account and built up pasive income of 5K a month and retired. I am currently suing the passive until my retirment account become available. Some People use SGOV instead of CLOZ. Others may use riskier funds like PBDC 9% yeid, EMO 9%, ARDC 9% UTF 7% or UTG 6.3%. Other other will use covered call bunds like BTCI, QQQI, and SPYI.
S&P is popular due to its high growth. In economic downturn growth will mostly vanish. But growth stocks are not the only investments out there there are a lot very good dividend funds available. These don't have much if any growth but they pay you cash monthly or quarterly. Some good Examples are ARDC 9% yield, PBDC 9%, EMO 9%, PFFA 8%, CLOZ 8%, UTF 7%, UTG 6.3%, and JAAA 5.5%. You simply buy and hold the fund. The cash dividend is deposited into your account the market will go up and down but dividends keep paying. regardless of what the shar price is going. I currently get 5K a month from dividends.
Have you considered dividends. Overall many of the companes BRK invest in are dividend producing companes know for their consistent dividend cash payments to investors. SGOV pays a dividend of about4%. You could easily get double that with funds like ARDC 9% yield, PBDC 9%,EMO 9%, CLOZ 8%, PFFA 8% you simply buy and hold the fund. And dividend are deposited into your acount. 5 5.
it is a resky way to make money. If you pay close attention to your portfolio it can work. But most people don't want to focus that much time on it. In the end it is just a way to make money. There are funds that use covered calls (a type of option) on the S&P500 and pay a dividend. SpYI is one and it has a yearly yield of 11%with monthly payouts. QQQI cells covered calls on the Nasdaq 100 index (QQQ). It has a yield of 13%. So 100K in QQQI will generate 1K of income a month. Covered calls cap the growth of the index by converting growth into dividends. If you don't want to use 0ptions there are many dividned funds with good yields. ARDC, EMO, and PBDC all have a yield of 9% PFFa and CLOZ have a yield of 8%. Buy inviting in these and some covered call funds I now have a monthly income of 5K a month from simply holding the stock of these funds. I don't closely monitor them. I treat them just like growth index [funds.Buy](http://funds.Buy),hold , ignore.
The problem with the stock market prices of shares can move up and downunprdicatably. So if you need the money in 9 months you won't know how much money you will have in 9 months. You could have 180K or less or 220K or more in 9 months. But let's assume that you don't spend the at money on a new house to see what could be done. I you invested 200K in QQQI an income fund with a lileld of 13%. 200K in this fund will produce 2K a month of extra income. And do to it ROC tax classification on most of its dividends you would pay no tax on that income for about 6 years. Income that could cover much or all of your rent. Now it is possible to get higher yields but those are less stable so for this I wouldn't recomend anything higher than QQQI. Now there are other funds with yields between 10% and 5% yields but most don' have the tax classification of QQQI. So the extra income will be taxeded as regular incom. Which would be the same as 2000 a month raise in you pay. Some examples of lower yielding funds are ARDC 9%, EMO 9%, PBDC9%, PFFA 8%, CLOZ 8%, UTF 7%, UTG 6%.
I would gradually sell it off and reinvest it. yOU could reinvest some in JAAA 6% yield,9%.CLOZ 8% yield these are veritable reliable dividend payers, Keep each at 50K invested. Then add 50K in UTF 7% UTG 6%, PFFA 8%, PBDC9%, EMO 9%, ARDC. These funds produce income you could use to pay utility bills rent, mortgage. roth deposits or simply be reinvested in these funds. If you sick or injured injured or become unemployed for an extended period of time you can use the income to cover expenses until you can return to work. Or you could invest in growth index funds. If you have a big unexpected expense you can sell the growth shares you could get enough money to cover the expense.
I would put it in QQQI the high yield from this fund will generate about 1K of income a month. You can use this income to help cover living expense or used to make deposits into your Roth IRA. Or you could add more money to QQQI to get even more income. I did this and added more funds like SPYI, EIC, ARDC, EMO, PBDC, PFFA, CLOZ, UTG, JAAA. Today I have 5K a month of income from these investments.
Your at a point were you need torethink how you invest. You can keep in vin sting in growth index fund (all the fund you listed ar growth index funds. I would suggest investing you money in the taxable account into dividned ETF. Dividends are cash profit sharing payments to you. For example you could put money in your taxable brokerage account into CLOZ with a 8% dividend yield. 100K invested in that fund will generate all the money you need for your roth deposits. Or you could use the money to pay bills and other expense. You can get yield from 1% to 10% with about as much risk as your growth index funds. CLOZ actually has less risk than growth index funds, I have fund these dividend funds in my taxable account EIC 11%, PFLT 12%, ARDC 9%, EMO 9%. PBDC 9%, PFFA 8%, CLOZ 8%, UTF 7%, UTG 6.3%, JAAA 6%
I did that and I am now retired at 55 and living off of my dividneds. Currently at 5K a month of income. Enough to cover my living expenses. I would like 100K in retirment and I estimated my tax for regular dividends with no other income and found my tax owould be 15K or 85K of income after taxes. It will be a few years before I get there. So it is possible to do it with just high tax regular dividends. Qualified dividends have a lower tax. But they are other low tax operations municiable bonds and ROC dividends. ROC means return of capital ( a tax classification) and freaks an out a lot people but A good fund can have ROC dividends by doing tax loss harvesting while earning a profit from your investments. This creates the ROC classification without returning any of your investment. The advantage Of ROC dividends is that you pay no taxes on the dividend. But when the cost basis of your shares reaches zero (which takes years you pay long term captial gains taxes which is the same as qualified dividend. Neos has some ver good covered call funds (see their website for a full list. But two of my favorit are SPYI 11% yield and QQQI 13% yield. You won't find qualified stock or ETF with this yield. And with these yields you can build up passive income faster than you can with qualified dividends of Note some other funds I hare (most are regular dividends) are : EIC 11% yield,, PFLT 11%,EMO 9%, PBDC 9%, ARDC 9%CLO 8%, UTF 7%, UTG 6.3, and JAAA 6%.
I’m 15; I invest and so does many of my friends. Everyone’s stock picking & bragging about their 40% returns in the last year, and under the delusion that such returns are normal. Anyway I’m down 15% in that time because I stayed out of tech and bought a few underpreformers (PBDC & KHC), I didn’t realize that dividends aren’t helpful so I’m gonna transition out of those.
I would put the extra dividend income into a taxable brokerage account and start building a dividend portfolio. That way that money is earning more money you can use to cover your monthly bills and expenses. Eventually you want enough dividend income to cover all of your living expenses. That way work becomes optional. If you like working keep doing it. If you don't take a sabbatical and look into different job you would find more interesting or enjoyable. Or you could fully retire. For now a good fund to invest in would be QQQI. 13% yield, You cold over time add PBDC 9%, FSCO 11% and other funds I would read the book the income factory and look at Armchair income on youtube for additional fund ideas.
If you are looking for Income.. you might consider 3 ETFs ..QQQI, BDC, PBDC Watch this video to get insight... https://youtu.be/8N3LBCj7znQ?si=TzSCiqlO5qE04nxL
The highest utility from investments comes from cash dividends. you can spend the cash on enacting you need or reinvest it. Growth is nice but it isn't real until you sell it and cover the income to cash. My roth is invested in BTCI 25%, QQQI 13% yield, PFLT 12%, ARDC9%, EMO 9, PBDC, PFFA 8%, ClOZ 8%, UTG 6.3%, JAAA 6%. These investment in my roth generate about 30K a year in the roth. Which I reinvest. IF you use a taxable account the money could be used to cover living expense ore reinvested.
At this point in like you should have about half of your IRA invest in bond or dividend funds that produce passive income to cover your bills. You want enough passive income to cover about 1.3 times your yearly living expenses. IF you don't spend all of it in a year reinvest the excess. Bond are nice and safe but the yield is low so you might be short on income if you just use government bonds. With dividend income from dividend ETF the yield is higher and you should be able to get the income you need. If you invest in finds like JAAA 6% yield, CLOZ 8%, PFFA 8%, PBDC 9% EMO 9%, you should be able to create a portfolio with an average yield of about 7% to generate 56K a year of income. As long as you are working you can reinvest the income to grow your portfolio even more. You might want to read the book The income factory and look at armchair income on youtube for additional fund ideas.
What are you taxes on the HYSA now assuming it has the ammount you want to invest? It isn't likel that much money. For HYSA you are now getting about 4% yield and it is likely dropping. You could open a taxable brokerage account and put your money in a dividend fund like CLOZ you would get 8% yield payed monthly with can be reinvested in the fund or spent. You can make adjustment with your work tax withholding to account for the extra income. if you slowly build up the money in the fund it will eventually produce enough to start covering some of your bills. And eventually it could cover all of your living expense. If you don't like CLOZ you can use QQQI 13% yield, SPYI 11%, EMO 9%, PBDC 9%, PFFA 8%, UTF 7%, JAAA 6%.
If you want to retire before age 60 you need to have taxable account to provide you with income until age 60. So this typically means people have a taxable account and retirement account. And sometimes just a taxable account. Now in a taxable acount the tax is generated by dividends, and capital gains from the sale of stock. Often dividends is what people worry about the most because that is taxed on the year it is received. Capital gains taxes mainly occur when you sell share with likely won't happen until you retire. Now an easy way to avoid dividend taxes is to use an ETF with a very low dividend. Growth index funds typically pay a dividend of 1%. So the dividend income on 1 million in invested is only about 10K. Since growth index funds average a total return of about 10% a year most people invest in these funds and then sell off about 4% a year for income when retired. At a 4% liquidation rate the income should last 30 years. 30 years is fine if you retire at age 60. You likely will die in 30 years. But if you retire at age 40 you need income for about 50 years. Which teams a withdrawal rate of 3% or less. Which also means you need to save a lot more money. These is another way to FIRE that doesn't involve liquidating stock for income. Invest for dividends. Using dividend ETF. You can easily get a dividendyeild between 5 and 10%. And dividned income doesn't involve selling shares. So if you save up 1.5 million and invest in a portfolio yielding 7% your after tax income would likely be around 80K a year. So you could focus on taxable account and build up a dividend portfolio using funds Like QQQI 13% yield, Spy 11% yield, PBDC 9%, EMO 8%, PFFA 8%, CLOZ 8%, JAAA 6%, and UTF 7%. you can do it . Now you likely would have to make quarterly 5K estimated tax payments to the IRS. But despite that you still have enough income for retirment. And if you take 7000 of that dividend income you could put that in a Roth to build up more tax free income. you can use after 60.
You have reached the point were more money in a saving account is no longer beificial to you. And if you have your retirement accounts are maxed out, you need to start using a stable brokerage account. Now you can open that and put money in growth funds (which are general tax efficient) But then to get money out of your account you have to sell share to get the money out and that generally means timing the market. An alternative aproach is to invest in a good covered call dividend fund that is tax efficient. For example QQQI has a yield of 13% is tax efficient and doesn't have the NAV erosion issues many warn against. You can collect eh dividneds as cash instead of reinvesting it. And use that cash to fund repair projects and other bills and chains you need money for. Now it will take time but if your account gets to 100K I would put holf 50K in QQQI which would generate about 6K of cash a year. leave the rest in your savings. now for future deposit you could put them in your savings or into QQQI. And if you don't need the dividend reinvest them. QQQI pays out monthly. Now if you don't want to use a covered call fund there are a wide variety of funds available to use. JAAAA 6%yield, UTG 6.3%, zuTF 7%, ClOZ 8%, and PFFA 8% are lower yielding funds but they always pay the divined even if the market is down. Other good funds with higher yields are PBDC 9%, EMO 9%. PFLT 12%. Now with most of these you don't get any tax advantage as you do with QQQI. I built up my dividned income to 5K a month which allowed me to retire at 55. earlier than planned. 5K is enough to cover all of my living expenses There is no limit as to how much dividend income you can get. When you get to about 3 K a month of income from dividned you could loose your job and live off of teh dividends indefinitely.
You chasing returns and constantly checking your portfolio as a reasult. most growth index funds average about 10% a year. You could rediscover what your dad did. Dividend stocks. Is your dad constant checking the market and stressing about when the buy and sell? Likely the answer is no. For example you could invest in JAAA 6% yield ,UTF 7%, CLOZ 8%,PFFA 8%, without doing daily checks. Also with dividends stocks like these you they alway pay a very stable and predictable dividend. dividend cuts are rare with these funds. And you can boost the dividend to about 10% buy adding some higher higher yield funds PFLT 12% PBDC 9%, EMO 9%SPYI 11%, QQQI 13%. For dividends you buy and hold. With many of the funds I have list they deposit cash monthly into your account. Others deposit quarterly. Also many worry about market crashes with many of the lower yeild funds will continue to pay even when the market is down a lot. I ha30K of dividned income before Covid. The market crashed and 50% of the stock price disappeared quickly. But my dividned chacks came in on schedul and I still got 30K a year. And after covid the shoe price recovered with the market. Today I retired early at 55 and have 5K a month of dividend income from a taxable account that coves all of my living expense In Fact I routinely invest 1K back into the market. You can get this level of income with about 500K invested at a 10% yield. Just invest what you can monthly and reinvest the dividends. It will take time but you will get there. If you want you can start with the higher yielding funds first and then switch to the lower yielding funds. and your can use the dividends from a taxable account to fund your Roth or pay regular monthly bills. day trading and growth investing is like making bets a a football game and watching the gave.. Dividend is like watching plants grow. you wanch and occasional trim.
Moving assets to income producing securities should be done before you get to retirement to secure reduce your risk. BND is a good choice but there are many good choices. Funds like JAAA 6% yield, JBBB 7.8%, CLOZ 8%, UTF 7%, and UTG% 6.3%. All have higher yield than BND and other government bond funds and historically are very safe investments. less safe but still not terribly risky are PFFA 8% yield, PBDC 9%. But you also need to factor in your expected income needs. you need to have a good estimate of your income needs in retirement and then gradually work on configuring your portfolio to generate more than that income. IF your account generates more than you need and you reinvest the excess income you will never run out of money.
Like we said. In Europe we can’t have nice things… PBDC and PFFA and CLOZ are not in Europe. JEPQ is LSE and is available (fortunately)
Well than JEPQ is your best choice of the 3. can you get PBDC9% yield, PFFA 8%, or CLOZ 8%. These 3 plus JEPQ would get you to your income goal and leave you with
I don't personally plan to use just one asset. I plan to spread it around multiple cc ETFs in various sectors with expected good performance and nav retention plus CEFS, maybe some PBDC, QDVO, and whatever else I find interesting. In addition to sp500 funds and I'll probably keep a reduced presence in SCHD, hoping it fares better in the future than it has in 2025. I have too much in SCHD right now and it's been a drag in this bull market. But hey, it could be an interesting ride if you put $1 M in BTCI getting $250k+ per year income. 😸 Then again that might be too much like betting it all on red. 😇
Hold gold, bitcoin, and bond like stocks such as VZ. Also BDCs like MAIN or a BDC ETF like PBDC. These are not correlated to the equity market directly. On some red days I see all of these go up and vice versa. These will smooth out the volatility. Also hold corporate bond funds like JBBB or JAAA or even STRC which pays 10% and has stable nav.
Not that answer applies to a passively manage index fund. They just follow a published index like the S&P500. So if a company goes bankrupt they are off the list and a new company is added. However not all funds are based on an index. And some are activelystock managed. Some fund managers just pick the companies or other assets He believes are good investments. If one goes bad they replace it with another one they like. Now these fund managers can change the mix of assets at any time.based on the funds stated objectives. Now the fund managers Have to spend time researching and analyzing assets and monitoring their portfolio which means there is more work passive or UTF. They invest in utility stock and any any corperate bonds they sell. Now the stated objective of these funds is to generate income for investors So share price appreciation is much lower than most index funds. But the dividend is about 6 times higher than a typical pasive index fund. And the assets they hod are very different. UTG pays a dividend yield of 6.3% while UTF 7%. OR take a look at BIZD or PBDC. Both hold a group of companes called Business Development Companies that by law are required to pay out about 90% of their earnings as dividends. BIZD is based on a BDC index and has an expense ratio of 0.4% and a dividend yield of about 11%. PBDC chooses the BDC's it invests in ands an expense ratio of o.75% and a yield of 9%. With noPBDC has a slightly higher total return. Note for BIZD and PBDC an obscure SEC rule requires they to list expenses they never pay so their listed expense Ratio is about 13%. But if you read the prospectus the real expenses are much lower and I listed the values from the prospectus.
What I would do with cash is put it in a taxable brokerage account and turnoff automatic dividend reinvestment. The cash from the dividned can be placed in HSA, HYSA, or money market account. After that any excess can be used to used for personal needs mortgage, roth, or held as cash for emergencies. Or some could be invested With a fund like QQQI 13% yield your account could push out a lot of cask per year. 100K at 12 would generate $1000 a month. And QQQI is a tax efficient account. The fund takes steps to lower the tax on the dividends you recieve. SPYI is similar but 11%. EMO and PBDC 9%, PFFA 8% or you could just go with a utility fund UTF and get 7% IF you want to take risk There is BTCI which has a yield of 25%.
You can move the account to a brokerage without insuring taxes. I use fidelity. All you have to do is contact them provide them with he account number for the american express account number and fill outcome forms and they will mov the acount to fidelity. >I guess I realize I lost money by not putting it in stocks and by inflation. I just don't know what to do. IT is important to realize your fear of risk is is not based on your experience with your investments but your fear of not knowing what will happen. In most cases the fear is a lot larger than actual risk. In my IRA I have a bond fundFAGIX that ear a steady 5% yield but I also have JAAA 6%yield, CLOZ 8%, UTG6.3%, UTF 7%, PFFA 8%. All of these investments produce cash payments into your account regardless of what the share price will do.The share pirice may go down but the cash will still be deposited quarterly. Generally people like you do better with these investments. Now you can add up to 7000 a year into an individual IRA. I strongly suggest you do this every month. Over time as you get more failure with these funds your fear will drop. Some higher yields can be achieved with slightly more risk with funds like PBDC 9% yield, SPYI 11%. And you could put some money in VT. All of these do hold stocks. Start out small first and gradually increase the ammount. in them.
You could invest the money in JAAA 6% yield and JBBB 8% yield and PFFA 8% UTF 7% and UTG 6%.Thes all invest in different assets and provide a much better yield. These are dividend funds that pay out quarterly or monthly. Some higher yielding options are PBDC 9%, ARDC 10%,EIC 11%, and SPYI 11% the lower yielding funds are safest while the higher yielding funds have slightly higher risk. YOU will have to use a taxable brokerage acount for these funds. Set dividend investment to off. Cash will show up in the account and from there you can move that to your bank account. The higher yield of these funds will probably double your income. Any money you don't spend reinvest it for more income. Your taxes will go up due to the higher income. So you probably will have to make some adjustments to your tax withholding. I strongly suggest you read the book The Income Factory. and look at Armchair income on youtube.
I am really interested in your post, but also a little confused on the details. If you wouldn't mind adding some clarification. >QQQI 13% Yield, ARDC 12%, SPAYI 11%, EIC 11%, PBDC 9%, UTF 7%, SCYB 7%, UTG 6.3%, PFFD 6% FAGIX 5%. * The above is only 50% of your portfolio, and the other 50% is in growth ETF not part of the list above? * Most important question: The 5K in monthly income you receive is based on what dollar amount invested in the above portfolio? * Those numbers add up to 87%. Where is the other 13%?
The solution to this cash reserve problem is not to use cash or growth index funds as a reserve for a market down turn. Instead consider investing your cash and taxa able brokerage holdings into dividend funds. For example if we take your 150K of cash and reinvested that for dividned. Now with 150K we cannot get enough cash to provide 9K a month. but with BTCI 25% yield you could get 3K a month of income Now normally I would recemond QQQI with its 13% yield due to my risk tolerance. BTCI is the maximum yield I would be comfortable with. But with your cash and taxable brokerage invested in BTCI you would bet very close to 9K a month. If you just use the cash in BTCI and reinvested all the money back into BTCI you will have 300K in BTCI and would have an income of 6K a month. If you don't need the money reinvest it in other funds to reduce single fund risk. or you could use the money to pay off a home loan or any debt you have. Reducing your living expenses. The key things to remember about dividneds is that the money is from the companies profits. And ever in 2008 and the dot. crash most companes were still profitable and still payed their dividends. I retired at 55 and I invested in QQQI 13% Yield, ARDC 12%, SPAYI 11%, EIC 11%, PBDC 9%, UTF 7%, SCYB 7%, UTG 6.3%, PFFD 6% FAGIX 5%. A mix high yield and lowe less risky yields And I still have 50% of my portfolio in growth index funds. My living expenses are about 4K and I currently get 5k from dividends so 80% of my income covers my living expenses with the remaining 20% being reinvested for more income. Now if there is a correction in the market most of my dividend income will continue. But if not I can sells some growth for additional income. A good book to read is the income factory. And armchair income on you tube invests the same way but does good reviews of funds that can be used for income.
I would recomend diversifying into high quality dividend funds That way when the market falls the dividends will help contract some of the decline. I am using dividend funds like QQQI 13% yield, ARDC 12%, SPYI 11% EIC 11%, PBDC 9%, UTF 7%, UTG 6.3%, PFFD 6%.
right now you have two choices, open a a roth or a taxable account. I don't know if you have access to a 401K. I am assuming right now you don't. with 800 a month you and the roth depoist limit of 7000 you will have enough to open a roth and taxable account. Max out your roth every year. Most just invest in growth index funds Like S&P500 index funds. but with he deposit limit in 20 yours you would longly have about 500K available for retirment and it would not generate any meaningful income. In my opinion The best Roth investment is a high yield dividend fund like BTCI 25% yield. In 20 years you will have about 3.9 million in the acount producing 900K of dividned income a year. Yes there are some risks with a yield at 25% but it is the highest reasonable safe yield I know of. Realistically in 10 years i would start diversifying your investments in the roth. I am currently investing in QQQI 13% yield, ARDC 12%, SPYI 11%, EIC 11%, PBDC 9%, UTF 7%, SCYB 7%, UTG 6.3%, PFFD 6%. All would would make good additions to your roth when you start diversifying away from BTCI. And all are good choices for a taxable account. Once you reach the 7000 limit in the roth open a taxable account and start investing for dividends. The purpose of the taxable account is to give you a backup source of income. having a lot of dividend income is great backup in case your are unemployed or cannot work for medical reasons. I am following an investment stratagy similar to the book The Income Factory. Armchair income on youtube also follows this stratagy. Both list the funds they use or have used and that that is 100 in total. Armchair income also does detailed reviews of his investment choices. Which give you a good look at why he picks the funds he insists in.
your could sell it off slowly and reinvest the funds for dividends. Dependinding on the yield the reinvestment you could get yearly cash income generation of 50k up to about 100K of income from your investments. Cash generated in the 401K will have to stay in the 401K until you reach age 60. But you can reinvest this cash to grow your earnings. IF the stock is in a taxable acount you could replace a immergeny fund with a passive income fund. I would read the book the income factory. It is about investing for dividend income. and list 68m funds the author has used plus several example portfolios. There ia also Armchair income on youtube. he list 38 funds has has in his dividend portfolio. and does detailed reviews of some of them and other funds that may be of interest. He also interviews fund managers and did interview the author of The Income Factory. That should give you enough ideas to on how to invest the money. I am currently using QQQI 13%, ARDC 12%, SPYI 11%, EIC 10%, PBDC 9%, UTF 7%, SCYB 7%, UTG 6.3%, PFFD 6%. 5
buy when the market is down 20% to 30% at that point it may not go much lower. The market has only lost 40% in a year 3 times in the last 100years. IF possible invest in dividend funds Dividend funds generally perform better in a recession than growth funds. She good dividend funds are QQQI, SPYI, PBDC, UTG, UTF, PFF.
There is a lot of risk in yieldmax funds. That doesn't mean they will fail tomorrow or next year. We simply don't know how long they can keep paying these very high yields. There are a growing number of people that put in only the ammount they are willing to loose and then use the dividend income to buy less risky stocks. That is what i am thinking doing and and I suggest to do the same. Lower risk investements I use are PFFD 6% Yield, UTF,7%, UTG 7%, Scab 7%, PBDC 9%, EIC 10%, SPYI 11%, ARDC 12%, and QQQI 13%.
This is really a personal question you need to answer. If you feel the will never perform well stop investing in it. If you think it will do well in the future then keep buying it. In my case the company stock didn't pay a dividend it did almost go bankrupt at one point. At the time other than my saving account I had no significant savings. So I invested the stock. It wasn't a well thought out plan but I didn't know what else to do at the time. So I did it with the goal of getting 100K that I could sell if I lost my job or had to take a medical leave of absance. The company did eventually turn corner but most of the market had written off the company. So our gradual climb to be one of the largest companes in the sector went largely unknowtised. And I reached my 100K goal. Then the unexpected happed The company started paying a dividend. Quickly me emergency fund turned in to 20K a year passive income fund. Which really changed my outlook on life. Now instead of your ESPP you could put the money in funds like QQQI 13% dividend yield, ARDC 12%, SPYI 11%, ECI 10% and PBDC 9% in a taxable account and build up a passive income fund which could be used to cover bills or pay for vacations or anytingyou want.
Most economist are expecting higher inflation due to the tariffs and with growing world economic instability I would now focus more in on passive income investments. Such as these dividend ETFs: QQQI 13% yield, ARDC 12%, SPYI 11%, EIC 10%, PBDC 9%, UTG / UTF / SCYB all with7% yield, A.nd PFF 6%. These funds in a roth or 401K will compensate for the potential lower earning of index fund so your retriemtn account will do better than one without dividends. In a taxable account then income would help protect your from unemployment.
There are some stock that literally pay you cash to hold them. These are dividend stocks. Dividned funds tend to pay higher returns. You might want to try holding QQQI 13%, ARDC 12%. SPYI 11%, EIC 10%, PBDC 9%.
If you invest for income you could get 30 to 40K of income per year from good paying dividend funds like QQQI 13% dividend yield, ARDC 12% SPYI 11%, EIC 10%, PBDC 9% . Thes funds pay you cash for simply holding the [stock.you](http://stock.you) never sell shares of the stock. Read the book The Income Factory.
Put whatever money he has in these funds. QQQI 13% yield, ARDC 12%, SPYI 11%, EIC 10%, PBDC 9%.These funds pay a dividend which is much higher than what you can get from government bonds. Dividends are cash payment to you. These can supplement his work income. and pote4ntally exceed his work income. 5
For your hom you are going to need to maximize income. Frequently medical expenses for the old greatly increase living expenses. I am currently retired and am invest in these funds QQQI 13% yield ARDC 12%, SPYI 11%, EIC 10%, PBDC9%. These are add dividend funds Monthly or quarterly the fund will depoist your portion of he funds earnings into the brokerage account. The cash can then be used to cover living expenses ore reinvested. If you invest equally in these funds the dividend yield will age about 10%. Meaning 300K would produce about 30K a year of income (2,500 a month ). The bank would only give you about 1/10th of that ammount. In short this is a self assembled pension plan. Pension plans invest for income like dividends or bond interest to generate income for the pension holders. You can do the same. To good sources of aditional information is the book The Income Factory and Armchair income on youtube. both together list about 100 funds that they have used For income. Armchair income also does detailed reviews of some of the funds he has in his portfolio.
You are doing well and have made progress. At this point I would attack the central problem you have Income. I would start investing in dividend funds like QQQI 13% yield, ARDC 12% EIC, 10% PBDC 9%,UTG 7% these funds share the ir profit with investors. so quarterly or monthly you get a cash payment to you You could over time build up passive income to slowly to handle your monthly bills. Eventually you could retire and simply live off of the income.
by picking individual stocks, YES. Consistantly, No. But many people tiny of stack as companes like Apple vision and Chevron. And it is hard to find the companies that will score big each year. Many don't think of ETF and CEFs as stock But they do sell stock. And these investment companies are in many ways they are similar to companies They don't often grow like companies but they do often pay a higher dividend. So you don't need to consistently make 14% or more to retire. 8% works just fine if it is consistent and you consistently by more shares of the ETF or CEF every year. These funds pay cash dividends directly to you. So $100,000 at 8%Will pay you $8000 a year. So 1 million will earn you 80k a year of income at 8%. And right now there are funds that pay reliable 10% dividend I am currently investing in funds like QQQI 13% ARDC 12%, SPYI 11%, EIC 10%, PBDC 9% which all yield more than 8% and I am getting significant intcome from these funds. So the key to a comfortable retirement is to invest for income. Growth can give you very large returns but it is not consistent. And when you need income you have to sell it off with lowers your future long term future earnings. Dividend give your income now without sacrificing your long term earnings. I have a mix of dividend funds and growth funds. I use the dividend funds for income. The growth is used to maintain my income and serves as an emergency fund.
This is why I switched from growth index fund to dividend ETF and CEF fund. I am currently invited in QQQi 113% yield, ARDC 12%, SPYI 11%, EIC, 10%, PBDC 9%, SCYB 7% UTF 7%, UTG7%, PFFD 6%. Overall these funds produce 5K a month of income. Most goes to living expenses including healthcare I retired at 55). But 1K a month is reinvested which will help minimize inflation. When the dividends come in they go straight into a money market. fund. So I always have cash on hand. But I plan on keep a sizable amount in growth index for emergency needs, Unexpected large bills, and if needed I can harvest some growth and use that to increase my income as an inflation adjustment. The funds can also be used to replace any fund if it starts having issues.
I am invested in PBDC 9%, SPYI 11%, ARDC 12%, QQQI 13% and am considering adding EIC 10%, ACRE 12%.OXLC 25% BITC 24%. SPYI and QQQI do best when the market is uncertain. And the other have some interest rate risk but overall I think you will find the risk is lower than what you imagine it to be. But if yours a wide variety of fund that invest their money differently you have a very good chance of getting a stable predictable income. Even if one has some problems. I also keep some money in growth index funds as an emergency backup and reinvest about 20% of my income to hopefully keep up with inflation. The rest is used to cover living expenses. I am retired. JEPQ and QQQI invest in the same index and and used covered calls to generate income. But QQQI takes an extra step to lower the tax you pay on the dividend and you get a slightly higher dividend. So I sold off JEPQ.
Not an expert, may be put the 401K in GPIX, GPIQ, SCHD, PBDC, SPYI, QQQI and CEFS. May be some part of it in IWY/SCHG to leave room for growth.
Not an expert, may be put the 401K in GPIX, GPIQ, SCHD, PBDC and CEFS. May be some part of it IWY/SCHG to leave room for growth.
Personally I find I like cash dividends for income. I have minimal ammount. in government bonds because the yields are so low. Right now some my favorite investments are QQQI 13%, ARDC 12%, SPYI 11%, EIC 10%, PBDC 9% RLTY 8%, UTF 7%, UTG 7%, SCYB 7%. PFFD 6%. I am getting about 5K of income a month from these sources.
SPYG is apparently a S&P500 index fund derivative. it has a lower dividned than other S&P500 funds which leads me to believe it is more heavily invest in the tech portion of the index. Bot this and VTI are good. But I would also suggest QQQI13%, ARDC 12%,SPYI, EIC 10%, PBDC 9% These are dividend funds and will over time greatly increase the flow of money into your Roth while you still deposit 7000 a year into the Roth. which will greatly increase the growth of your portfolio. If you don't reinvest the dividends and then spread the money equally over all of your r investments your entire Roth portfolio will benefit.
With CD the maximum yield you are likely going to find is about 6%. However with a und like QQQI you can get a yield of 13%. And there are lot of choices in the 6 to 9% ranks for dividend ETF or CEF funds. And it is also possible to find yields win the 20% range or higher. I am investing in QQQI 13%, ARDC 12%, SPYI 11%, EIC 10%, PBDC 9%, RLTY 8%, UTF / UTG / scab 7%, and PFFD 6%. And unlike CD they don't expire. meaning once you have built the portfolio the dividneds will continue to come in indefinitely. I currently get 5K a month of dividend income and I am retired.
I would not useChat AI for invesment advise. i would rather read the book The Income Factory. And youtube ArmChair income is an excellent resource. I am investing in these fund with the following yields; QQQI13% yield, ARDC 12% , SpYI 11%, EIC 10%, PBDC 9%, RLTY 8%, SCYB 7%, UTF 7%, UTG 7%, PFFD6% That work out to an average yeild of about 9%.
Just an example of what you could do with 300K. invest it in QQQI 13% yeild and put the dividneds into a money market fund. I April when you do your taxes the you will have to pay a tax on the dividneds. So use a portion of the cash to pay the tax, and then use money left over to pay off your home loan and any other debt you have. After the first year you will have an idea as to how much the dividend should be kept as cash for taxes and how much your can use immediently to pay off debt. Overall QQQI will generate about $39,000 a year pf Income before taxes. And as a further benefit QQQI takes steps to reduce the taxes you pay on the dividend. But keep in mind you will have to pay taxes on inherited money so in the end you might has about 200K instead of Also while the potential with QQQI it is just one fund and history has show you are better off using multiple funds, That way in the rare event that one goes bad the rest of your money will still be in god funds. So I have spread my money out over fund like PFFD 6% yield, UTF / UTG / scab 7%, RLTY 8%, PBDC 9%, EIC 10%, SPYI 11%, ARDC 12% and QQQI 13%. For my portfolio it generates enough to cover more than my monthly living expenses.
Most investors seek investments that earn around 10% to maximize ether growth of there protfolio Gold right now can be sold at a decent price but most of the time it isn't worth a lot and it doesn't pay a dividend. In may case I invest in dividend fund which earn me about 5K a month of income. 80% covers all of my living expenses. The rest is reinvested to grow my income Hopefully enough to keep up with inflation.I am invested in QQQI 13% yield, ARDC 12%, SPYI 11%, EIC 10%, PBDC 9%, RLTY 8% SCYB / UTF, UTG 7%, PFFD 6%
I would not expect your taxes to be zero but I don't know anything about taxes in puerto Rico. After you cover any taxes you will need to invest it. I would look at dividend investing. Over the last few years I started using growth I had to build a dividned portfolio. I retired earlier than expected and now I have 5K a month of dividend income. I have money invested in these funds PFFD 6% yield, UTG / UTF / SCYB 7%yield, PBDC 9%, EIC 10%, SPYI 11%, ARDC 12%, QQQI 13%.
I would open a taxable brokerage account. and move your mo money into it. put the money into into a money market fund. Then slowly move money into QQQI which has a dividned yield of 13%. Do not automatically reinvests the dividneds. The dividend payments should go directly into your money market fund.Eventually you will have a cash account that is bing fead by the dividends from QQQI. You could over time graually add other dividned funds. I have PFFD 6% yield, UTG / UTF / SCYB 7%, PBDC 9% EIC 10%, SPYI 11%, ARDC 12%. Any extra cash gets reinvested. Eventually you could build up the account to get enough income to cover all of your living expenses, utility bills, bills, food, clothing, car cost, insurance. and housing.
with your uneven limited income for now I would put put money in QQQI. this is a income fund with a dividend of 13%. IF you build up the money in QQQI to 100K that one fund will generate 10K a year of income that goes directly into your rothand you still can contribute 7000 per year of your taxable income. Once QQQI is at 100K you roth is basically self funded. So it will continue to grow even if you don't have money to depoist into the account. Once you have 100k in the fund you can divert the dividend from QQQI and use it to buy VTI VXUS in the end you want 50% of your portfolio in index funds like V%I VXUS. with the other 50% in dividend funds. That way the dividend funds can supply you with income while the index funds can be used for unexpected emergency cash needs, or periodically harvest the growth in the invest funds and use the money to adjust your dividned income. For the dividend portion of my retirment I am using funds like PFF 6%,UTG 7%, SCYB 7%, PBDC9%, EIC 10% ARDC 12%, SPYI 11% and QQQI. you basically want enough dividend income to cover all of your living expenses with some extra cash left over every month. And reinvest any extra money.
If you invite in a combination of dividend assets with a yeild close to 10% you would have about 50k of income per year after selling the condo. Which is probably enough to cover most of your living expense or all of the rent for the appartment. Some funds you could use are PFFA 8% yield, PBDC 9% EIC 10%, SPYI 11%, ARDC 12%, QQQI 13%.
I didn't see the yield of T-bills attractive especially since they were likely going to trend down. So I instead piracies a preferred stock ETF with 6% yield and then purchases a BDC fund yielding 9%. I now have about 5 funds with yield near 10% or a little higher, PBDC 9% EIC 10%, SPYI 11%, ARDC 12%, QQQI 13%. And I hav several funds yielding about 7%
You need to invest for pasive income. For example. you could open a taxable brokerage account and inis a dividned fund. QQQI is nice one. it has 13% yield and takes steps to reduce the taxes you pay.. IF you put the roth depoist limit in this account yearly ns ewincwar raw siciswnsa,. IN 10 years you will have $100,000 in the fund and the yearly earnings willl be 13,000 or about 1K month. IN about 20 years you will have 600K with a yearly income 75K a year6 K a month of in come. This is a simple example of what is possible. But you don't generally want just one fund generating income. IF one goes bad you could loose a lot of money and time. If you spread your money equally over 10 funds then the impact of one bad investment is only 10% of your income. It is not unusual for people to have 20 funds in a portfolio. I didn't realize this until I was in my 50s. But I have did built up investments in index funds and other growth stocks in a taxable account over the years. So I started converting that to dividned investments. suing ufund like PFFD 6% yield, UTF / UTG, SCYB 7%, PBDC 9% EIC 10%, SPYI 11%, ARDC 12%, QQQI 13% I now have 5K of income a month. 4K Covers my living expenses including health insurance while 1K a month is reinvested for inflation protection. It still will be several years before I can use my well funded retirment accounts. And I still have more assets still available in my taxable account to fix any issues with what I have and increase my income. I wish I had done this at your age! Now this extra income does does come with additional tax. So I make quarterly estimated tax payments to the IRS. But that issues comes with the benefit that I have retired early and don't have to work. Some good resource es to guid you on this is the book "The Income fFactory. And ARmChair income on your tube. Both invest this way and the book list 68 funds the author has used, and Armchair income list 38 funds. Armshair income also does detailed review of some of the funds he uses. Don't ever withdrawal money from your regiment funds and pay the penalty. It is notworkth it. But you can pause investing new money into them and use that money to build your passive inc ome. Now many people will say dividends are very risky or not worth it. But most of these comments are from people that have never invested for dividends. My dividend portfolio has had no issues other than the taxe. I am also reworking my Roth for dividend income that will not be taxed when I can use it. And moving money from my 401K into the Roth.
I use dividend funds in my roth I don't automatically reinvest the dividend back into the then that generated it. Instead it all gets sent into a cash moneyn market fund. And then once a month the money is split up equally into all funds into my roth I am currently using funds like UTF 7% , PBDC 9%, EIC 10%, SPYI 11%, ARDC 12%, QQQI 13%.
Short selling may only provide occasional income. For cash you want regular earnings. I would put some of your cash in a fund like QQQI with a 13% yield. Or you could use UTF 7%, PFFA 8% PBDC 9%, SPYI 11%, EIC 10% or ARDC 12%, or BTCI 24% But keep in mind you loose some liquidity when investing in these funds. Meaning if you need to withdrawal all the money you would have to sell shares, which takes a few days, and pay taxes on any capital gains. There is the possibility that you might sell at a loss. But with dividends you can build a contininous stream of income. Using funds like this I have drevolped an income protfolio and gernates 5K a month. Most is used for living expense and any excess is reinvested. I retired at 55.
you could invest in in funds like PFF 6% yieldUTG 6.7%, SCYB 7%, PBDC 9%, EIC 10%,SPYI 11%, ARDC 12%, QQQI 13% All of tese funds produce dividends. Cash payments to you. Dsividens ar a form of profit chasing mnayestablied companes do. These fund invest in these companies or bond issued by theese compnaies or use trading activity to improve the yield. If you invest in these thees funds in a taxable account you cinould build up enough income over time to cover all of your monthly bills. higher income is also possible. You could also do this in a roth for retirement. I am currently retired and make 5,000 a month from dividends. This stratagy is outlined in the book The Income Factory. Armature chair income on you also invest in this way. And each lists funds they have used. The only problem with this is in come contras tax or don't tax dividend and Other my or may not tax capital gains. If you plan to move to another country you need to know the tax laws for that country.
I invest in dividend stocks and have been buying PFFD 6% yield, UTG 6.7%, UTF 7%, SCYB 7%, PBDC 9%. SPYI 11%, ARDC 12%, QQQI 13%
Dividend funds are not terribly expensive funds like PFFA 8% yield, PBDC 9%, SPYI 11%, QQQI 13% Have a higher yield than bonds and 100K invested at 10% yield will earn you 10K a year. Year after year.
have owned off/on for years, great company along with DX and NLY, they are 3 residential MBS companies with high yields. Only own when most likely that 10yr yields are heading lower, then the MBS loans go up in value and so does AGNC's NAV -net asset value, and then so does it's price. With FED cutting overnight rate by 100bips in last 8 months and likely to cut more over next 2 years, the 10yr is more likely to trend down, FED is cutting due to inflation falling, the 10yr yield = inflation rate + GDP growth rate. IF both are heading lower, like now with Tariffs decreasing global demand and decreased M2 causing lower inflation last 3 yrs, since 9.1% july of 2022. Then very good time to now own mREITs like DX/NLY/AGNC. you can use any temporary rise in 10yr yields like April 6th to May 21st to buy low on AGNC It's a trading vehicle, not a long term hold when 10yr yield in a sustained rise, play the opposite side with BDCs, like BIZD or PBDC etfs
It is a very good idea but SCHD is not the best choice for this. They yield is very small. 100,000 in SCHD would only earn about 325 a month. Only enough to buy a little food or and maybe cover your utility bill. I did what your are proposing. I would use QQQI. QQQI has a higher yield 13% and the fund management takes steps to reduce the tax you pay on the dividend you receive. This ould generate about 1000 a month from your 100K deposit. Do not automatically reinvest the dividends. Instead they will appear as cash in your acount My brokerage put the money in money market account. Use the cash to pay billls or rebuild your emergency fund. At this point you have self refilling emergency fund. it will refill slowly but it will rebuild. As as much money as you can to increase the income Eventually you will have an eveThe rmgency cash in the money market account. And you could get enough income to cover er all of your living expenses. In my case that is 4K a mont. Enough to cover my living expenses (I live in high cost of living area).For 4K a month you would need about 400K in QQQI There are many funds you could use such as UTF 7% yield, PBDC 8%, PBDC 9%, BIZD 11%, SPYI 11%, BTCI 24% and many more. The key is to get the highest you feel ocmfortable with and if possible use a fund that payshas a lowe tax on the dividend you receive. Most of the funds I have listed are taxed as ordinary income. But they are useful for the income they create. Once I had enough income I started adding more funds until I had enough to retire early at 55. Also I reinvest about 1K a month to gradually grow my income. Hopefully enough income growth to cancel out inflation. No mater which fund you will use you will genrate taxable income. The best way to handle this is to estimate the additional tax you willl pay with the assumption that all of the dividdends are taxed as ordinary income. The highest taxrate to insure you have more than enough. Then you could put the money asside in monoy market account and use it to cover the april tax bill. Eventually you will start to charged with a lat payment of tax penalty. At this point start sending quarterly tax payments to the IRS.IF the estimate is low you owe more. IFyou pay too much you get money back.
Yes it is worth it to have dividends in a roth. The dividneds allow you to get more cash into the account without violating the 7K deposit limit. Let say you add a dividend fund that adds 7000 to your account per year. This would double the amount of money going into the fund. And this would double the growth rate. There is however one group of companes you don't want to add to to a Roth The earnings from MLP are taxed in a roth. So you want to void those. However everything else is not taxed. Fund you should consider re PFFD8% yield, PBDC 9%, SPYI 11%, QQQI 13%, UTF 7%, Onenot of PBDC this fund list an expense ratio of 13%. This is not a real expense number for the funds. SEC rules requires this fund list it expense ratio + the expenses the companes it invests in. The ETF never pays the expenses of the companies in the fund. So if you correct for that the expense for the funned 0.75. This fund invests in comapanes that are required by law to pya out 90% of their earnings. So the dividend is always high.
The problem iwht bogleheads investing is you have to liquidate stock to generate income. Which means you could eventually run out of money. The solution to the problem that preserves captial is outlined in the Book The income factory. And Armchair income on youtube also discusses this. There are funds and company stocks that pay out a portion of their profits to you quarterly or monthly as cash to you. Say you invested 100K in a fund with 10% dividend yield of 10% and it pays monthly. Every month you will,$833. Dollars a month. while you are working you invest the money back into the fund. The fund will grow. in 7 years the fund will have about 200K deposited and will pay a dividend of 1,666 every moth. Over 30 years you should also have about 1 million in ht account producing about 10K a month of incomce. If you invest for dividends in addition to your growth index funds you should have substantial income when you retire. So you live off of the dividned income . IF you don't spend all of the income you reinvest the excess money. Hopefully you can reinvest enough to keep up with inflation. IF you have a bit unexpected expense in retirement you can sell the growth funds to generate the additionally income needed. Or you could periodically harvest 4% of the growth and reinvest the money for more dividend income to adjust for inflation. I retired and now get 5K a monty of income from dividends 4K covers my living expenses. and 1K a moat is reinvested. I also have growth funds I can tap if needed. It is working out very well. Some of the funds I am investing in for income are FAGIX 5% yield, PFFD 6%, UTG 6.7%, UTF 7%, SCYB7%, PBDC 9%, SPYI 11%, ARDC 12%, QQQI 13%.
I like dividends. I would put it in QQQI. it has a yield of 13% yield and would produce about 1000 in cash a month. If you reinvested all of the dividend the funds would double in size in about 5 year. If you don't reinvest the dividend you can buy other funds. In addition to the yield the fund also takes steps to reduce the tax you payoff the dividend. So in a taxable account it can be an alternative source of income I am retired with an income of 5K a month from dividends. Enough to cover all or my living expenses. I have the following funds UTG 6.7% yield, PFFD 6% UTF 7%, SCYB 7%, PBDC 9%, SPYI 11%, QQQI 13%, ARDC 12%.
I think paying off your dept is probably your best option. But there are fund that return 6% per year. For example UTG 7% yield, UTF 7%, SCYb 7%, PFFA 8%, PBDC 9%, SPYI%, ARDC 12% QQQI 13%. THESE FUNDS ARE Different Than VOO. VOO earning come from the price per share increasings. They funds I have listed don't have much price appreciation, Instead they make quarterly or monthly cash payments to you. The money will go directly into your brokerage account Now you can set your account to automatically reinvest the money into the account that generated the money or you just leave it as cash and spend it. As long as you don't sell shares you will continue to receive the money. You could move your emergency find into a prokerage account and use a brokerage money market fund to earn interest on your funds (My fidelity money market account yield 4.5%. Then you could use one or several of the funds above to continuously add cash to your emergency funds. If you have more cash than you want you can invest the money for more dividends. I am retired and I get enough money a month to cover all of my living expenses this way without selling shares.
Most people start out with a retirment account, Some use taxable and some have both for various reasons. Many start out with index funds Like a S&P500 fund. These are good and reliable but they don't produce income so you have to sell shares to get money. But if you have to sell when the market is down you could loose money. Because they produce very little income your yearly taxes are small. You can save up 2 million in index funds and pay ver little in taxes. For the Most part you pay most of the tax when you sell. r/ Bogleheads is a good site to discuss index fund investing. Others want income from their investments and if they want this income before age 60 they have to use a taxable brokerage account. r/dividends is a good site for discussing dividend investing. There are also books like The Income Factory which is a good reference. Armchair income on you tube is also good. In europe you can still invest in ETFs or funds. EFTs are exchange traded funds Maning they show up one exchanges were people by hand sell shares of stock VOO, PBDC , SPYI are some examples. Now use funds are typically listed on USE exchanges so in europe you may not have direct access to USE exchanges. Only European evangel. But there are still ways to do it. But I live in the US and don't know much about that. There are also CEFS that trade like stock but are also funds. And Europe has some european specific funds.
For a good distribution yield you want a company that makes more in profit than it pays out as a diviedend. A bad distribution yield is one that pays out more than it makes. Or one that uses a loan to pay the dividend. Also don't use the yield as guid to a good or bad dividned stock. Many do this and they generally assume that if the yield is higher than the government b and rate it is unsafe. And yet you have compass OXLC that have payed a dividend it dividned for 14 years at a yield of 23% AR% And it is not hard to find companes that are struggling financially and pay a yield of 1% Basically you hav not look at the companies earning report and look at there profit and compare that to there expenses. The yield number honest tall you anythng about the stability of the company. Many buy individual stock but I like to buy ETFs that pay a dividend such as UTG6.7% yield, UTF7%, SCYB 7%, pFFA 8%, PBDC 9%, SPYI 11%, QQQI 13% ARDC 12%. I have a small ammount in individual stocks. My current income is about 60K a year. I don't automatically reinvest my dividneds. They go into a Cash account. 4K a month goes to living expenses. Mush of the rest in automatically spit up and use to buy a little bit of each fund I own. Generally I only sell shares when I don't wan the fund or stock any more.But am also moving funds from a 401k into a roth so I do pay capital gains on that. Since retiring I estimate my tax based on 401K roth convrsion ammount, may expected income, andanthing else I plan to sell. Make quarterly payments to the IRS and then in April I either get a refund or pay a little pit more.
Everyone assumes saving for retirment is the only reason to invest. A 22 year old may be more interest ed on a secure source of income she wouldn't loose if she loses a job bra has to take care of a child alone. After the maxing out a Roth I would recommend investing for passive income. in regular taxable brokerage account. Strt investing in a high yield dividned fund. My recommendation is QQQI . This fund has a 13% yield so 100K invested in this account will produce 13K of income. With dividends set to automatic reinvestment build this up. As long as she is working keep adding to the account. Keep building this up until the dividend is about 4K a year. At this point if she looses her job she can stop reinvesting the dividends and live off of the income. At this point she can stop automatic reinvestment of the dividend and divert the income for other uses. * Build up a cash reserve. * Invest in a low dividned index [fund.You](http://fund.You) same more than a million dollars this way and pay very little in taxes due to the very low dividend these funds have. * Use the cash to contribute to a roth acount. * Continue to increase the dividend income so the can retire early. * Deversify the sources of dividned income by adding funds like UTG 6.7% yield. UTF 7%. SCYB 7%, PFFA 8%, PBDC 9% ARDC 12%. Now taxes is an issue that must be addressed. QQQI not only produces income but it also taks extra steps to reduce the tax you pay in the dividend income. For the first few years you can just cover the expenses from work income because The dividend income will be small. Or you could set some of the dividends asside to as cash and then in april you will have enough to cover the additional tax. You could also estimate your tax and make quarterly payments directly to the IRS like you employer does when they give you a pay check. You might want to read the book The Income Factory. And look at the youtube channel Armchair Income. Both discuss this investment style
you can get the book The Income Factory. And has several incomes producing portfolios that could generate income from 60K up to about 90K fro the 1 Million you have to work with. The Author has invested his own money this way and managed the fund of some friends. He has a lis too 68 funds listed in th the book. Mostly from ETF and CEF (Closed End funds) There is also Armchair investor on you tube. similar investing style and he has a a fund list of about 38 funds he likes. You can do quite well on the income side with funds like PFFA6% yield, PBDC 8%, SsPYI 11%, ARDC 12%, QQQI at 13%. I am not a fan of gold so I don't have any recomendations there. And the low yields of bonds is not attractive to me.
MY head is spinning 20 years old and 500K net worth? At that age I was in college and my work income was barely enough to pay for rent and food. any way i would start putting you money in funds like PFFA 8% Yield, PBDC 9%, qqqI 13%, ARDC 12%. All these funds generate income you could get 65K a year from QQQI, or 40k a year from PFFA. So by buying these investements and siimply holding them would cover most or all of your living expenses. But Ideally you would spread out your income over many funds so that if one fund runs into issues you won't loose all of your income. You might also want to look at armchair income on yoututube, and read the book The Income Factory.