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Real estate will deflate in stagnation. Look at essentials like energy, railroads/transportation that pass along increased oil prices, some closed end bond funds do well in inflation/stagnation. Ideas? EXE, Expand Energy is the largest producer of LNG in the USA if you can catch it before it takes off like electric power suppliers. Under $108 is a steal. CSX railroad has room to run probably. Under $40 is solid. Leave the beating inflation to the pros at PIMCO with some money in one of their closed end funds like PDI. Dips into 17.42-18 range after the monthly dividend on the 12th and can run up to $20 when under accumulation. Try to average around $18 and you’ll be fine. The dividend is running 15.10%.
S&P Rebalance. Added PDI, SRG & VUL. Removed CAT, DGT & EBO. chrome-extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/https://www.spglobal.com/spdji/en/documents/indexnews/announcements/20260306-1482258/1482258\_20260306-quarta-200.pdf
TSM and ASML all day everyday. All they do is collect profits from chip biz. Nobody gets chips without these two. GOOGL is a value buy at this price. PE ~28? Forget about it. Thank me in 24 months when it’s 🚀 SOFI was better last week but I do think it will continue to rise back into the mid 20’s. LLY under $1020 will pay well as an investment. Bought the unreasonable dip in APP. This will be $700-750 by EOY. On fundamentals, you should buy PICS. Corporate buyers are going to buy every dip because it’s basically PayPal for So. America. $25 near term and $60 within 2-3 years. PDI for the dividends. IBM under $300 is a given.
Look at PDI. That'll generate $500-$600 per month with a $66k investment.
The corollary of "buy the dip" is "sell on good news." When there's good news and one of your stocks shoots up, sell it. NO REGERTS. Did I get out of ONDA "too early"? I don't care! Should have I kept holding OKLO? Hard to regret the huge profit I took. Put the after-tax leftovers in PDI (paying huge interest every month consistently for years, no idea how they do it), or a good utility like AES or DUK, or an international staple like HEINY, or if you're feeling speculative, put some in a foreign ETF like EWY (Korea) or INDA or even VNAM. Holding this American tech stuff forever though is going to hurt real bad at some point. Maybe. Except for my RKLB of course - NEVER SELLING.
[**https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260116994614/en/New-Era-Energy-Digital-Partners-with-Primary-Digital-Infrastructure-to-Co-Develop-Up-to-1-Gigawatt-Hyperscale-Data-Center-Campus-in-Texas**](https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260116994614/en/New-Era-Energy-Digital-Partners-with-Primary-Digital-Infrastructure-to-Co-Develop-Up-to-1-Gigawatt-Hyperscale-Data-Center-Campus-in-Texas) [**https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260116123656/en/New-Era-Energy-Digital-Closes-Acquisition-of-Remaining-50-of-TCDC-from-Sharon-AI**](https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260116123656/en/New-Era-Energy-Digital-Closes-Acquisition-of-Remaining-50-of-TCDC-from-Sharon-AI) New Era Energy & Digital , NUAI is a despac. Acquires the remaining 50% of TCDC from Sharon AI. Now partnering with Primary Digital Infrastructure (PDI). PDI already joint ventures for other data centers.
I'm glad I sold out of PDI a few weeks ago.
Schwab and State Street US dividend ETFs, SCHD and SPYD both have about a 4% yield and relatively stable price action and are well diversified. On the bond side something like AGG or IGIB for investment grade exposure would get you what you want. Something like PDI would be a bit more aggressive but higher yielding. You could stack a couple different bond etfs with treasury, investment grade, high yield exposure and have a pretty diversified portfolio yielding you >4%
IGR PDI OMAH FSCO All pay between 12-16% dividends and are great buys in a variety of investments from reits to corporate bonds, Berkshire Hathaway, Apple and a great BDC
PDI is an interesting one. I wish they would disclose their exact holdings.
Not exactly a “company” but it’s been paying off handsomely for a long time. Around 10% PDI.
My boomer coworkers financial advisor had him dump a ton of money into PDI Pimco fund, said it’s made his clients a ton of money for years. I looked at the chart and it’s down 24% over 5 years. Bruh 🤣
PTY. Typically yields 6-12% depending on the rate environment and NAV. Currently sits around 10%. Unlike PDI. It has a 30+ year track record and I believe it possibly was outperforming the S&P 500 over that span with reinvestment for at least most of it. But I only remember reading that somewhere and could have been awhile back ago. So don’t quote me on that. These type of funds do have risk and junk bonds. Obviously you don’t get a yield like that otherwise. So just bear that in mind.
If I could write to Roaring Kitty today, here is what I'd say. I've got a thesis for you that is ripe for the crowd-sourced creative disruption that was made famous with the GameStop short squeeze.There's a very small corner in the market that is unappreciated, overlooked and largely unknown. That is the \~500 traded issues called Closed End Funds. Unlke indiviudal stock issues, ETF's or mutual funds with huge volumes of share counts which in the case of Open End Mutual funds and ETFs can expand share count dynamically and daily, the total share count of every CEF is capped and fixed. CEFs were designed this way when introduced almost 100 years ago. Furthermore they typically sport very high yields, which are mostly paid monthly and historically trade at a discount to Net Asset Value. Think of buying $100 of assets for $80. 4 factors come into play in my thesis to make these CEFs a perfect storm to exploit for profit. (1) Knowing that the FED is predicted to lower interest rates between 1 and 3 times yet this year, we know for yield instruments, as yield goes down, NAV goes up. If the FED acts, this is built-in upside. (2) Who are the fastest growing group of investors? I'd posit that group is retirees stating to collect social security and rolling over there company 401K plans into their IRAs. For monthly cash hungry retirees, CEFs are TINA. (3) The Bull market is booming and P/E multiples are reaching nosebleed levels. All Bulls ccorrect or crash at some time. For long-time readers of Barrons know, when the well heeled investors cash-out they park their profits in CEFs. It's smart to grab a discounted asset, paying a high cash yield and wait for the Bear to finish his work. (4) Given the fixed share caps of CEFs, they are very hard to borrow. While there is some short selling, there isn't much volume so shorts get squeezed very quickly. This thesis posits that unlike GameStop's primary short squeeze focus, the CEF case is more of a corner-the-market play. If the 4 factors above develop , who wouldn't want to be standing tall on that corner before the crowd rushes over? If interested, read more about Closed End Funds at [www.cefconnect.com](http://www.cefconnect.com) to run screeners across the small 500 item universe of CEFs. For illustration compare symbol PDI with symbol PGZ for example of high yielding choices, one of which trades at a premium and the otehr trades at a discount.
Pimco PDI is an ETF that has a strong record and pays 14% monthly dividends.
I agree with some comments that you should discuss with your CPA re: tax implications, but you’re heading in the right direction. Dividend income is almost always better than long term capital gains from a tax perspective, but your CPA can give you personal advice. Maybe look at PDI which has a 14+% dividend paid monthly and holds up well even through market shocks like Liberation Day. I never found financial advisors very helpful. Let’s face it… they’re looking at commissions. Sounds like you have a strong core portfolio and need to look at your options from a tax perspective. I don’t see where you said if you’re still working or retired.
PDI is an income fund. paint 14% yield. Yes it is a ETF but many ETF pay cash divideds which is equivelent to a interest.
PDI pays 14% yield. you are looking at share price only yes in the last year the share price has been down. but it stills pays its yield. SPY has a yield of 1.3%.
PDI PIMCO Dynamic Income 14% yield that has been very steady.
If you’re willing to accept a little risk, you might want to check out PIMCO Dynamic Income Fund, PDI… $14.05% dividend yield paid monthly. Just an option since you said you don’t really need the money liquid and that’s pretty close to liquid.
look at bond like CEFs, closed end funds like PDI or high dividend payers like DX. High cashflow is very possible.
Tough to find value in this market, everything seems so inflated. If not just sticking it in an index fund then maybe some CEFs trading at a discount to NAV, like the ones from Eaton Vance. Maybe some income options like pimco’s PDI or blackrock’s BTZ.
I have a friend who cites something he calls the PDI (Pole-Dancer Index): The average beauty of strippers is inversely related to the health of the economy. His theory is that when the economy is good, then fewer attractive women need to turn to stripping to make a living. So the clubs can't be as picky. And he reasons that the opposite is also true.
Oh also since you’ve been so nice idk if you can invest in it but there’s this one dividend stock called PDI which literally gives $.22 per share monthly and the shares max out at $20 usually and stay around $18-20 for soooooo many years.
Have you looked into PDI at all? $20 stock with monthly .22$ dividends.
Check out PDI. There’s obviously risk just like everything else that isn’t a high yield savings account. For a sum that large, I would consult a financial professional. An option could be putting like 300k in a high yield savings account. And 200k in PDI would give you 40k a year. The 300k would be safe and the 200k would have some risk but the amount is less than if you had all 500k. Again, I think you should consult a financial advisor. If the fed decides to cut interest rates, I’m pretty sure the rate in high yield savings accounts would also be reduced which adds another issue. The real problem is that if you want more return than the market is willing to give without risk. If you want it to appreciate in value and also give you 7% a year then that is going to require risk. I mean, the 10 year is trading around 4.5% right now.
I feel like the best dividend company is PDI it’s less than $20 a share and they pay monthly 22 cents and have an end of year bonus.
the B's; where are considered 'junk' but in reality they have a 99% payout rate. You can look at some of the PIMCO funds, like PDO, PDI PAXS etc, they pay over 10% and have a diversified portfolio, but they do use leverage (using the short term repo market to fund buying long term bonds); Its not something i would have recommended for the past 2 years, but we are are getting to that point.
Pay off all high yield debt first (credit cards, auto loans, school loans depending on the rate). If you have a lower rate on your mortgage - like 3-4% then don’t worry about paying it down (your money invested will return more than the interest savings). If your rate is like 7% then consider paying some down to keep your monthly payments manageable. Take the remainder and max out your Roth IRA for 2024 and 2025 and put remainder in a taxable brokerage. I recommend Fidelity. Each year thereafter move over additional money into the IRA up to the max amount. Set $30k aside in a cash MM fund in the taxable brokerage account for taxes, emergencies, or bottom buying opportunities. Invest remainder in the IRA and taxable brokerage 60 / 40 into an equity ETF and a bond ETF respectively. I personally like VO (mid cap equity ETF) and PDI (actively managed multi-strat bond CEF). Rebalance quarterly. This strategy should yield 10-13%. Over 30 years that should be $10+ million.
I own few ETF in my retirement portfolio like PDI,GOF,AIPI …..etc
PDI is pretty stable and has a great dividend
PDI? Can you explain, I’m not familiar
Put $8000 in PDI (13% yield) and put the rest in HYSA.
Best mix of safety and good return would be PDI imo. It’s an etf of catastrophe bonds. So, the holdings in the etf have nothing to do with company revenues or sales and has to do whether there are major weather problems that cause lots of damage. Do some research about what catastrophe bonds are before investing. With that said, the price per share should remain pretty stable while also giving a significant dividend payment every month. 150k for 2 years would mean you get roughly 40k extra over the 2 years. If you reinvest the dividends then it will be more than that
Apple, Alphabet, Amazon… but if I could only hold 3 stocks I probably wouldn’t buy stock. If I was that limited, I’d go for a couple ETF funds, but choice of funds depends on age, tax status of account and tax bracket. I might go 1 bitcoin fund like IBIT, 1 S&P fund like VOO and maybe a diversified dividend portfolio paying fund like PDI.
Check out catastrophe bonds. Make sure you do your research about what they are before investing in them. With that being said, the dividend yield is MUCH higher than what you would get from HYSA. Some cat bond ETFs are PDI and HNW
Are you looking for dividend stocks or growth stocks cause PDI at 22 cents a month per 20 dollar share is a good one. But like growth markets would be like driverless taxi services, flying cars, flying car taxi services. So like Joby, EHang and Archer are potentially explosive stocks that are cheap now.
Buy the dips. Look for a smooth growth chart. For example, look at PDI. Start with investments that offer consistent growth and buy the down days.
Yeah the consistency of it was a huge draw for me because their price had remained relatively consistent for a few years and is just slowly rising and giving me like a nice $40 a month. It’s not game changing money but I’m 28 and it’s my Roth IRA so it’ll grow and grow. Though I’m pretty tempted to buy some more for my brokerage account just because it makes so much and never seems to really go down. It’s incredible that one company is achieving dividends like that and it looks like they’ve been pretty consistent as well. For a Canadian it definitely seems like potentially the smarter one but actually maybe not cause in 3 months that’s 99 cents to the 66 cents of Endbridge and 15% tax does give you a few cents more with PDI.
Damn I stand corrected. Just took a look at the stock and the yield is crazy - it has been consistent too. What a nice find. Hating that I’m in Canada lol. US dividends are subject to a 15% withholding tax for Canadians, which really sucks but still would be nice to hold some. I initially thought it was an individual company. And there’s no way a company can compete with Enbridge’s dividend history. That still holds but man PDI is a better investment, so I was wrong!
Lol believe it or not but PDI makes more in dividends and costs less to buy.
Yeah that’s why half my money is in VOO lol no way I can get in on NVDA at this point and VOO is like one of the largest holders of that and aapl and Microsoft so it feels safe. But then I’ve kinda been investing in China due to their stimulus, following some of Michael burray’s buys, some of warred buffets buys, and like 1/3 of my money sits in the money market account to make dividends, though the real dividend king I’ve found is PDI.
If something doesn't happen soon I'm selling all my options and going all in one shares of PDI 😤😤😤
I don't think there's anything inherently wrong going for safety and yield that close to retirement. I would suggest not going for super risk free, lower return and I think you're aligned with that. You could have a portion of that with preferred stocks and long term growth REITs. I've also dabbled in some riskier yield funds. BIT, O, BANC.PR.F, PDI (less familiar with that one). I wouldn't suggest mortgage REITs like AGNC only because you need to keep an active eye on them.
ETFs make it easy now, GPIX GPIQ SPYI QQQI SVOL and PDI make up the majority of my income, no growth.
You may have these income stocks, but if you don't, I would look at JEPI, JEPG, TFC, OKE, BNS, ARCC, BXSL, and PDI. They should be ok at protecting the principle you are investing. If you don't mind the tax headache, you might like ET and MPLX. Both are good MLP's.
I agree with spicermatthews on selling Put credit spreads but I tend to avoid betting on SPY. You just cannot predict overall market direction. I prefer to focus on individual stocks. For ex., I opened a put credit spread on NVDA last Tuesday and closed it on Thursday for a quick $590 gain and I will do it again when I see a little pullback on NVDA to support levels. Over the years, I've mostly sold cash covered puts and covered calls. This generated a steady income for me of $2,000 per month in 2023, and I also lock up my gains in T-bills, CDs, or high-dividend funds like PDI. Here's a link to a great tool for evaluating the risk/reward potential for option spreads: [https://www.optionsprofitcalculator.com/calculator/2-legs.html](https://www.optionsprofitcalculator.com/calculator/2-legs.html) Right now, I am looking at opening a Put Credit Spread on AMD 19-Apr 170/165 Puts but I will wait until Thursday 2/29 when the inflation numbers come out. If the market pulls back, this would be a good time to open this type of position.
Here's 2 funds to also begin investing in at this stage of the downward-trending inflation rate: PDI, PIMCO's Dynamic Income Fund, a 14% dividend. TLTW, iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond Buywrite Strategy ETF, a 19% dividend. The funds have monthly dividend payments. When equities aren't so pricey then start payments to JEPQ, JPMorgan Nasdaq Equity Premium Income ETF, a 9% dividend plus growth with equity returns.
I bought $PDI today, we'll see who does better.
I love researching stocks/funds even if I don't own them or are just 'mixed' or don't really have an opinion on it. I've done it before with $TNT-UN (a distressed Office REIT), $PDI (High Yield fund), $HYLD, and multiple other income funds. Its super relaxing to me.
Etfs, bonds, mutual funds... Here are my favs: JEPI JEPQ TLTW FAGIX PDI LTC OXLC ARCC KBWD HYT I believe these are all monthly. There are more but I'm tired. Have fun!
OK, so on par with almost all modern auto manufacturers. Seriously most companies put out hot garbage these days, not sure how they actually pass PDI.
Haven't real hourly earnings been basically flat with inflation, even falling? https://i.imgur.com/Z762u3Z.png BEA's real PDI has been falling for 4 consecutive months. I'm not sure I'm so mad we have mild deflation.
Indeed on PDI discount but still a huge ER
If you are looking for buying opportunities, PDI is trading at a discount to NAV. It's pretty rare for it to dip under the NAV + the fund and fund managers (pimco) have a good track record. https://www.cefconnect.com/fund/PDI Another tip is to read up on [BDCs](https://www.investopedia.com/terms/b/bdc.asp), see if they are for you or not. https://cefdata.com/bdc/
Yes actually real wages are increasing again. Zoom out and ignore the Covid noise in the data due to stimmy, unemployment benefit overlap weirdness, gig work etc. https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/employed-full-time-median-usual-weekly-real-earnings-wage-and-salary-workers-16-years-and-over-fed-data.html And the long-term + recent trend is clear. Same with Fed's primary measure which is Real PDI. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/fredgraph.png?g=17IWF
PDI. It's not 100% safe, but reasonably safe. The underlying fluctuates, but the dividend is currently above 14%. Usually its around 8-10%
Let’s just say you sell your stock for $1M, roll into something like PDI paying 14.26% on your 1M, and that’s $142,600/yr, pays monthly so $11,883/mo, net of taxes at 15% on the divvie.
Funds I hold SGOV: 5.3% PIMIX: 6.5% BIT: 10% PDI: 14% TLTW: 15%
Bond funds like BIT, PDI Gold European equities An etf of India’s largest publicly traded companies
I kind of like the idea of diversified bond portfolios right now. Big baskets of bonds at a discount that would then rise when fed eventually cuts rates again. Have started buying a little now and plan to just buy a little every month. A lot of bond funds seem to be at Covid lows which looks oversold to me and dividends of yields of 8% to 10% cover inflation? Example PDI, PDO. Community thoughts?
The share price can fall over time because they distribute more income than they earn. What's more important is the discount/premium to NAV, which is not all that low right now. For example, PDI is at +6.4% which is about the average over the past year, though lower than its average over a longer period.
What do you guys think of the Pimco CEF's? PDI is paying around 14% right now, and the share premium is reasonable at only 6%. Dividends have actually slightly increased over the last 10 years (this seems rare?!), and they also don't do any RoC dividends, which is good. Extremely consistent dividends too - nice flat chart from 2012 to now. Management fee is 2.6%, which I think is reasonable for something making 14%. Seems like now is the time to buy, since shares are at an all-time low. Thinking of plopping a large amount of money in there, and just enjoying those sweet dividends. What do y'all think?
bought shares (PDI, MAIN, CJ, HYLD) have a buy order on HYLD @ $11.20, and $7.00 for CJ
PDI, GOF, JPM are some examples that come to mind
Doesn't matter if PCE continues cooling off. Personal Discretionary Income will keep dropping. You all personally know that. As PDI drops, consumption drops, which signals falling GDP. Unemployment can only go up, which will reduce PDI and consumption (thus, GDP) even further down.
That is a good starting point the next thing to learn is they can have huge discount to nav or a premium ECC for example is trading for 15% above what the holdings are actually worth currently. Get real familiar with this website cefconnect. https://www.cefconnect.com/fund/ECC Typically you want to find funds trading for less than their underlying holdings. PDI if you look at it's price on that site you can see where it dropped to 2% below nav then went back up. If you want bonds find one trading at a discount then hold. Almost all of them use margin which makes their fixed income almost always outperform. Right now is a good time to start a position in them. The only better time would be when the fed finally pivots. A lot of them are really old too ADX predates the s&p500 index I think it's 90 years old now it's only equities and not fixed income. The other thing to be aware of is they can invest in anything including Private Equity and illiquid as well as precious metals, derivatives, only otc stocks etc. Make sure you actually look at the holdings some what. When you look at there performance make sure you do it with dividends reinvested to get a clear picture.
You can look to closed end funds, PDI/PDO for example, they're gonna be closer to 10%
Again, a little hint if you're looking at monthly div stocks like GOF and PDI -- they keep dropping for at least 2 weeks after going ex-div. Sit on your hands and be patient! GOF target -- $15.95 PDI target -- $19.75
If you are looking at monthly Dividend stocks like GOF or PDI -- sit on your hands for a week or so. They will keep going down after ex-div date. My GOF low price target this month is $15.95 PDI under $20
Yup. If you can make 1,000.00 into 180,000.00 no need for the extra 130,000.00 in there tempting you to overtrade. There are great bond buys out there at the moment. CEF's paying 7%-15% in everything from real estate, foreign bonds (FCO AWF), muni's (BBN) , corporates (PDI PCN )and an S & P one that buys the S&P and creates income by selling options (SPXX). Not as safe as cash or a CD but at nice lows with great extra income and 10-20 year histories to look through.
If you think stocks are expensive and will likely have low future returns, another way generate returns is through corporate bonds, which are safer and also trade based on the risk free rate. If the risk free rate is high, corporate bond returns also need to be high. Right now, stocks seem to be pricing in a soft landing and probably a reduction in risk free rate, but corporate bonds aren't there yet, they are still priced based on 4%+ risk free. If you want to be safe, LQD is the benchmark, if you want higher returns, ANGL, if you want leverage because you think inflation has definitely peaked and risk free will definitely fall, PDI.
PDI has climbed from $18.40 to $20.40 in Jan. Still climbing after monthly ex-DIV
This month. PDI=10K Tesla=1K Amazon=+3K. Then save like crazy for taxes and traveling
If a fund is described as fixed income, that means it invests in fixed income securities (bonds etc), not that it guarantees a fixed distribution. Funds investing in fixed income will need to rebalance as their investments mature or go below the fund's index requirements if it's an index fund, and if it's an active fund, it may actively trade between securities to try to pick the best ones. That means they will generally not distribute a fixed amount over the long term as the portfolio changes over time. Investing in lower grade securities and using leverage like PDI does also makes its performance more volatile. PDI is a closed end fund and it distributes a consistent amount each month as long as that amount is reasonable. If it (or the market in general) does well, it may have extra income to distribute at the end of the year, or raise the distribution amount. For tax reasons, US funds have to distribute almost all of the income they get through investments to their investors each year. And if it does poorly, it may have to cut distributions. You can check its UNII reports to get an idea of whether it is likely to raise or cut the distribution in the coming months. You can also look at https://www.cefconnect.com/fund/PDI#distributions to see how its distributions have changed in the past.
So I made a throwaway because I have some dumb questions that I'd like answered. What if a fixed-income fund can't pay? I understand how things like bonds work - with a set amount being paid out and if the company goes under bonds take priority over things like stocks. However, with Income Funds, it gets more complex since there can be so many parts of the fund. I was just wondering, what happens if multiple portions fail? What if we go into another crash and say the mortgage market explodes and now they can't pay? For funds like PDI, it's not purely a mortgage fund (\~25% which is still a significant portion, and if it stops will likely not be able to fulfill it's "fixed" amount), so if they can't pay do they just pay what they can? Does that mean that many of these "Fixed Income" funds aren't really fixed per se but merely a target?
PDI? Pimco product 13% div~ Im curious ppl thoughts
PDI UTG DOW LYB MSFT GOOG TSLA (just kidding LOL - "Prosecute/Fauci" jesus christ)
Currently $ADX $RVT $RMT $RQI $RFI $PDI Getting rid of $PDI soon It might go full on $VT
I wasn't arguing that EV trucks aren't suitable. Clearly, it can be made to work. Volvo, Mercedes, Renault and others are already doing it. None of these things has been around for long enough to make comments on drivetrain reliability. It's a wait and see thing. Logically you're right, but until we see these things surviving the abuse their ICE brothers get we can't comment really. This is the big unknown with Tesla, we only have their word, the others have decades of knowledge and process to rely on (but are still fallible). People in the truck industry do care about these things, especially owner operator one man bands. They're very proud of their trucks, they have to be quality products that are built well... including panel gaps! And you better believe lease fleets will check this stuff like hawks come PDI and final delivery. Things have to be right. They're a finicky bunch sometimes truckers. I used to work for a company that did dual fuel control systems for production and retrofit. We used to have trucks running on a mixture of diesel and methane. We'd always get complaints about the truck making funny noises, sounds like it might explode, trucks not pulling as well. We turned off the in-cab indicator that it was running on gas and nearly all the complaints went away. They're a conservative bunch and very wary of new things even when being sold to by an OEM! So things have to be built right to make a good first impression. Many are going to be dismissive the first time they're handed keys to an EV truck. So we have to win them over straight away.
Wild. You could literally put everything into PDI right now and collect about 7k a month in dividends
From Stanford Asia-Pacific Research Center: Military trends are similarly favorable to China, at least over the next decade. That is in part because flagging economic prospects will take time to affect defense and in part because China has proven able to compete with fewer resources overall. China’s military spending as a percentage of GDP has been decreasing since 2010, and the country has never spent more than 1.9 percent of GDP on national defense. (The United States spent 3.7 percent of GDP on defense in 2020.) For the last three decades, China’s military spending has been a third of the United States’. And yet, largely because it has focused on acquiring asymmetric capabilities and limited its military ambitions to Asia, it has built a military that can now defeat the United States in a conflict over Taiwan. And the future is bright for the People’s Liberation Army. Although some of its modernization efforts remain unfinished, the PLA has made significant progress toward professionalizing its noncommissioned officer corps and hiring capable civilians to fulfill vital support roles. It is also recruiting more and more college graduates, improving its ability to conduct complex joint operations in a high-tech, information environment. Over the next ten years, China’s ability to project power throughout Asia will grow. By 2030, it will have four aircraft carriers, a network and space infrastructure that enhances the connectivity and thus the lethality of its forces, ground- and space-based weaponry capable of threatening U.S. military and civilian satellite constellations, and an air force that can challenge U.S. air superiority in Asia. It will have more naval ships than the United States and a nuclear arsenal that is larger, more survivable, and better able to threaten targets around the globe thanks to Chinese advancements in hypersonics. Any remnants of U.S. military superiority in Asia, such as Washington’s better submarine capabilities, are disappearing. China has invested heavily in developing so-called antisubmarine warfare capabilities, including advanced helicopters and ship-based sonar systems that will be ready for action in the next ten years. Of course, the U.S. military will not stand still as the PLA advances. The United States is building resilient space infrastructure and capabilities. It plans to deploy intermediate-range ballistic missiles to the Indo-Pacific now that Washington is no longer bound by the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty. And it plans to add new unmanned ships as well as more manned ships to the U.S. naval fleet to counter China. Headlining these efforts is the Pacific Deterrence Initiative, a Pentagon plan to enhance U.S. competitiveness in the Indo-Pacific. In this its inaugural year, the PDI includes approximately $6 billion for new integrated command-and-control systems, drone capabilities, electronic warfare, F-35 fighters, ships to counter Chinese low-level aggression and provocation, and support systems and equipment for U.S. Marines and other ground forces. But even with these investments, U.S. forces in the Indo-Pacific will have vulnerabilities that China can exploit for asymmetric advantage. For instance, the United States will be unable to defend its forward bases from Chinese missile attacks or its space assets from Chinese counterspace operations. Current procurement and acquisition plans reveal that in ten years, the United States will not have significantly more forces to deploy to the region than it has now. The U.S. Navy is modernizing, but it will not have its planned fleet of between 450 and 500 ships until 2045—a fleet size that China will have in just ten years. All of this suggests that China has not yet reached its position of maximal military advantage vis-à-vis the United States. It is telling that although Western scholars such as Brands and Beckley suggest that a relatively stagnant economy should influence Chinese leaders’ strategic calculus, encouraging them to act now or lose their chance, there is no evidence of this line of thinking in Chinese political or military writings, according to textual analyses carried out by natural language processing and analytics tools. Indeed, most Chinese strategists are sanguine about China’s future. As former Chinese diplomat Zhen Bingxi wrote in a journal published by the People’s Daily Press, China is “well on its way to becoming a global superpower,” even if it will continue to lag behind the United States in certain areas. Some Chinese media commentators have explicitly pushed back against American rhetoric about “peak China,” noting that the country “has long defied the pessimistic predictions of American media outlets and academia,” as one journalist put it in a pro-Beijing Hong Kong media outlet.
From Stanford Asia-Pacific Research Center: Military trends are similarly favorable to China, at least over the next decade. That is in part because flagging economic prospects will take time to affect defense and in part because China has proven able to compete with fewer resources overall. China’s military spending as a percentage of GDP has been decreasing since 2010, and the country has never spent more than 1.9 percent of GDP on national defense. (The United States spent 3.7 percent of GDP on defense in 2020.) For the last three decades, China’s military spending has been a third of the United States’. And yet, largely because it has focused on acquiring asymmetric capabilities and limited its military ambitions to Asia, it has built a military that can now defeat the United States in a conflict over Taiwan. And the future is bright for the People’s Liberation Army. Although some of its modernization efforts remain unfinished, the PLA has made significant progress toward professionalizing its noncommissioned officer corps and hiring capable civilians to fulfill vital support roles. It is also recruiting more and more college graduates, improving its ability to conduct complex joint operations in a high-tech, information environment. Over the next ten years, China’s ability to project power throughout Asia will grow. By 2030, it will have four aircraft carriers, a network and space infrastructure that enhances the connectivity and thus the lethality of its forces, ground- and space-based weaponry capable of threatening U.S. military and civilian satellite constellations, and an air force that can challenge U.S. air superiority in Asia. It will have more naval ships than the United States and a nuclear arsenal that is larger, more survivable, and better able to threaten targets around the globe thanks to Chinese advancements in hypersonics. Any remnants of U.S. military superiority in Asia, such as Washington’s better submarine capabilities, are disappearing. China has invested heavily in developing so-called antisubmarine warfare capabilities, including advanced helicopters and ship-based sonar systems that will be ready for action in the next ten years. Of course, the U.S. military will not stand still as the PLA advances. The United States is building resilient space infrastructure and capabilities. It plans to deploy intermediate-range ballistic missiles to the Indo-Pacific now that Washington is no longer bound by the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty. And it plans to add new unmanned ships as well as more manned ships to the U.S. naval fleet to counter China. Headlining these efforts is the Pacific Deterrence Initiative, a Pentagon plan to enhance U.S. competitiveness in the Indo-Pacific. In this its inaugural year, the PDI includes approximately $6 billion for new integrated command-and-control systems, drone capabilities, electronic warfare, F-35 fighters, ships to counter Chinese low-level aggression and provocation, and support systems and equipment for U.S. Marines and other ground forces. But even with these investments, U.S. forces in the Indo-Pacific will have vulnerabilities that China can exploit for asymmetric advantage. For instance, the United States will be unable to defend its forward bases from Chinese missile attacks or its space assets from Chinese counterspace operations. Current procurement and acquisition plans reveal that in ten years, the United States will not have significantly more forces to deploy to the region than it has now. The U.S. Navy is modernizing, but it will not have its planned fleet of between 450 and 500 ships until 2045—a fleet size that China will have in just ten years. All of this suggests that China has not yet reached its position of maximal military advantage vis-à-vis the United States. It is telling that although Western scholars such as Brands and Beckley suggest that a relatively stagnant economy should influence Chinese leaders’ strategic calculus, encouraging them to act now or lose their chance, there is no evidence of this line of thinking in Chinese political or military writings, according to textual analyses carried out by natural language processing and analytics tools. Indeed, most Chinese strategists are sanguine about China’s future. As former Chinese diplomat Zhen Bingxi wrote in a journal published by the People’s Daily Press, China is “well on its way to becoming a global superpower,” even if it will continue to lag behind the United States in certain areas. Some Chinese media commentators have explicitly pushed back against American rhetoric about “peak China,” noting that the country “has long defied the pessimistic predictions of American media outlets and academia,” as one journalist put it in a pro-Beijing Hong Kong media outlet.
From Stanford Asia-Pacific Research Center: Military trends are similarly favorable to China, at least over the next decade. That is in part because flagging economic prospects will take time to affect defense and in part because China has proven able to compete with fewer resources overall. China’s military spending as a percentage of GDP has been decreasing since 2010, and the country has never spent more than 1.9 percent of GDP on national defense. (The United States spent 3.7 percent of GDP on defense in 2020.) For the last three decades, China’s military spending has been a third of the United States’. And yet, largely because it has focused on acquiring asymmetric capabilities and limited its military ambitions to Asia, it has built a military that can now defeat the United States in a conflict over Taiwan. And the future is bright for the People’s Liberation Army. Although some of its modernization efforts remain unfinished, the PLA has made significant progress toward professionalizing its noncommissioned officer corps and hiring capable civilians to fulfill vital support roles. It is also recruiting more and more college graduates, improving its ability to conduct complex joint operations in a high-tech, information environment. Over the next ten years, China’s ability to project power throughout Asia will grow. By 2030, it will have four aircraft carriers, a network and space infrastructure that enhances the connectivity and thus the lethality of its forces, ground- and space-based weaponry capable of threatening U.S. military and civilian satellite constellations, and an air force that can challenge U.S. air superiority in Asia. It will have more naval ships than the United States and a nuclear arsenal that is larger, more survivable, and better able to threaten targets around the globe thanks to Chinese advancements in hypersonics. Any remnants of U.S. military superiority in Asia, such as Washington’s better submarine capabilities, are disappearing. China has invested heavily in developing so-called antisubmarine warfare capabilities, including advanced helicopters and ship-based sonar systems that will be ready for action in the next ten years. Of course, the U.S. military will not stand still as the PLA advances. The United States is building resilient space infrastructure and capabilities. It plans to deploy intermediate-range ballistic missiles to the Indo-Pacific now that Washington is no longer bound by the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty. And it plans to add new unmanned ships as well as more manned ships to the U.S. naval fleet to counter China. Headlining these efforts is the Pacific Deterrence Initiative, a Pentagon plan to enhance U.S. competitiveness in the Indo-Pacific. In this its inaugural year, the PDI includes approximately $6 billion for new integrated command-and-control systems, drone capabilities, electronic warfare, F-35 fighters, ships to counter Chinese low-level aggression and provocation, and support systems and equipment for U.S. Marines and other ground forces. But even with these investments, U.S. forces in the Indo-Pacific will have vulnerabilities that China can exploit for asymmetric advantage. For instance, the United States will be unable to defend its forward bases from Chinese missile attacks or its space assets from Chinese counterspace operations. Current procurement and acquisition plans reveal that in ten years, the United States will not have significantly more forces to deploy to the region than it has now. The U.S. Navy is modernizing, but it will not have its planned fleet of between 450 and 500 ships until 2045—a fleet size that China will have in just ten years. All of this suggests that China has not yet reached its position of maximal military advantage vis-à-vis the United States. It is telling that although Western scholars such as Brands and Beckley suggest that a relatively stagnant economy should influence Chinese leaders’ strategic calculus, encouraging them to act now or lose their chance, there is no evidence of this line of thinking in Chinese political or military writings, according to textual analyses carried out by natural language processing and analytics tools. Indeed, most Chinese strategists are sanguine about China’s future. As former Chinese diplomat Zhen Bingxi wrote in a journal published by the People’s Daily Press, China is “well on its way to becoming a global superpower,” even if it will continue to lag behind the United States in certain areas. Some Chinese media commentators have explicitly pushed back against American rhetoric about “peak China,” noting that the country “has long defied the pessimistic predictions of American media outlets and academia,” as one journalist put it in a pro-Beijing Hong Kong media outlet.
>Hello there! I'm not too familiar with PDI, but from what I can tell it seems like a decent company. However, 60k is a pretty large sum of money to invest in one stock, so make sure you do your research before making any decisions!
If you like REITs that pay monthly, check out O (it just hit 5% yield this week), STAG. Business development company MAIN pays monthly Closed end funds PDI and TEAF. These pay monthly as well I don’t know that buying any of these are great idea right now, but I’m watching them.
Master Limited Parnerships like HEP pay nice divs. 7.64 percent for instance. QYLD writes covered calls on Nasdaq 100 stocks and collects and disburses the premium as a dividend. Presently 12.2% If your willing to take some risk Pimco Dynamic Income etf pays 13.15% div PDI.
I’m not sure what you mean by rating, do you mean Morningstar rating? Some interesting funds are, from PIMCO: PTY PDI PDO and Nuveen has NBB, but in general you can look up levered bond CEFs online and see if there’s something you life. Two main points imo is to check long term NAV through cefconnect and check the ROC in cefdata. If the fund has a long track record of stable dividends, do not pay you back your own capital and no long term erosion of NAV imo it’s def worth a consideration
For me, assuming the following: 1. All debts paid off (including house). Therefore, only expenditures would be for living expenses (phone, food, fuel, and property taxes). Those expenditures would be about $1,200 a month currently. Estimate that they'll likely be $1,500 a month in 20 years. 2. Total expensives (allowing for a $500 /mo fudge factor) would be $2,000 a month. 3. Therefore, I need to have at least $350,000 in Cash producing EFTs (PDI, QYLD, RYLD, etc.). 4. My GOAL, however, is to get up to $750,000 just so that I can still balance it out with growth ETFs just to keep things going for those "in case of" times. Growth ETFs being ones like QQQ, SCHD, SCHG, and such.
BCX, PDI/PDO/PTY, OXLC maybe. All monthly dividends, all on sale right now. Or perhaps covered call ETFs like RYLD. Depends on your location of course, as well as your timeline, but real estate isn't looking good for the next few years here in NZ. Apparently US not looking great either at the moment. I have a decent property portfolio and always looking to scale further, but not buying in the current climate. I may also be skewed in my thinking - I'm nearing retirement. But if you're looking for income and potential growth, dividends on sale might be a way to go.
My pimco dynamic income fund(PDI) is up 6 basis point today while i collect 10% dividends