These 11.1%-Yielding CEFs Could Bankroll Your Retirement
Michael Foster, Investment StrategistUpdated: June 27, 2022
Thanks to the selloff, it’s possible to buy closed-end funds (CEFs) at such high yields that we can do what seemed unthinkable just a few months ago: build a CEF portfolio that will pay $5,000 a month in dividends on about $540k invested.
That’s an 11.1% average yield!
This, of course, is because many CEFs have been caught up in the selloff, and yields move inversely to prices. So a fund that may have yielded, say, 7% six months ago (which is about the long-term CEF average) is suddenly yielding a lot more now.
In addition, it’s possible to build an income stream this big with just three CEFs.… Read more