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These 7.3% Dividends Are Safe (If You Follow These 3 Steps)
If you’re on the hunt for big dividends (and who isn’t these days?), closed-end funds (CEFs) must be on your shopping list. As I write this, there are more than 500 CEFs in existence, yielding an... 
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Earn 6.6% Without Ever Sweating the Fed Again
The market isn’t doing fixed-income investors any favors right now. But one of my favorite funds—in one of the best cash flow niches in the market—is delivering a gaudy 6.6% yield at today’s prices .... 
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This 5.2% Dividend Is 40% Off (Should You Buy?)
One of the things we contrarian income seekers love about closed-end funds (CEFs) is that they often sell for less than what they’re worth. CEFs’ discounts are especially appealing these days, as the... 
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DRIP or Dry Powder? How to Best Deploy Our Dividend Profits
If you’re a regular reader, I owe you a big congratulations on the recent profits in your dividend portfolio. Some of you are banking big yields. Others are riding dividend magnets to capital gains. A... 
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It’s Never Been Easier to Retire on Dividends (Can Be Done on $600K)
Let me start with a special shout out to our dedicated readers at Barron’s. Here at Contrarian Outlook, we’ve been drawing up the playbook to retire on dividends for years (Two years ago, we literally... 
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This 5.5% Dividend Will Profit From Last Week’s Hedge Fund Blowup
This mess with Archegos Capital Management has shone a light on the use of leverage in investing. And it’s particularly relevant (in a good way!) to investors in high-yield closed-end funds (CEFs).... 
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An Extra $44,000 in Dividend Income (Hidden in Plain Sight)
It is challenging to find stocks that pay enough money to retire on. For example, even a 3.3% dividend—generous by today’s standards—isn’t enough to turn a $1,000,000 into an income stream that will... 
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Return of the REITs: Why This 7% Yielder Is Worth a Close Look
Investors in high-yield real estate investment trusts (REITs) are still living in 2020, and we can tap that for 7% dividends and price upside in the coming weeks. Let’s start where just about every... 
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Contrarian Income Mailbag: Your Questions, My Answers
Thank you to our 1,578 Contrarian Income Report subscribers who attended our Q1 webcast a couple of weeks back! We have you, our thoughtful reader and income investor, to thank for the inspiration... 
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A Proven Plan for 9.3% Dividends, 640%+ Dividend Growth (Do This Starting April 1)
Stocks are floating higher and interest rates are spiking. The US recovery is still fragile. Even so, people are being vaccinated fast and the global economy is a coiled spring. Should we take... 
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This “Dark Horse” Play on Rising Rates Yields 7.5% (With Gains Ahead)
There’s an opportunity unfolding for us in one corner of the closed-end fund (CEF) market, and we can tap it for 7.5% dividends and price upside, too. That opportunity is in CEFs that hold preferred... 
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These 8 Dividends Are Rising 23% Per Year
Thanks to two stock market pullbacks in 2020 and this current pause to begin 2021, equity prices are likely still “catching up” with their pre-2020 trajectories. Big tech is frothy but many... 
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My “Secret” Post-COVID Buy for 5.6% Dividends and Big Gains
Don’t listen to the pundits who say you’ve missed your chance to buy the dip in tech stocks. There are still deals on the table—and I’ve got a way for you to grab a slice of the gains to come while... 
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The Best CEFs for Rising Interest Rates
Thank you to our 1,578 Contrarian Income Report subscribers who attended our Q1 webcast last week! We received 114 questions during our one-hour call, plus several dozen more beforehand. Amazing. Thank... 
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The Ultimate Income Investment: 7% Dividends, 123% Profits Ahead
Most people don’t realize it, but there are 500 funds out there paying massive dividends: I’m talking rich 7% payouts on average. That’s five times more than index funds pay! And many of these 500... 
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The Best, and Worst, Dividend Funds Out There (No. 3 Pays a 7% Dividend)
If you’re not one to invest through individual stocks, a fund is the way to go. And if you invest in one totally overlooked type of fund, you can get the best of all worlds: diversification, the... 
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These 4 Reopening Stocks Pay 4% to 10% (with 40%+ Upside)
As we Americans reemerge from our homes, select “return to normal” dividend payers are poised to deliver big gains. I’m talking about upside of 40% in addition to their 4% to 10% current yields. But... 
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How to Turn Inflation Worries to Your Advantage (for 5%+ Dividends)
Let’s talk about inflation for a moment, because worries over rising prices are boiling over, and we contrarians can work them to our advantage. If you’ve been watching the markets—and I’m guessing you... 
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Is Inflation Here Already? What Bond Investors Need to Know
What a time to be alive! The stock market is booming, and many of our favorite income investments are ticking higher every day. Sure, we need to credit all of the money that our intrepid Fed chair Jay... 
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How to Invest in Tech Like a Baller (6.3% dividends, 15% upside)
Tech stocks have finally taken a breather—and we’re going to pounce on this dip—and grab a rare “double discount” while we’re at it. The strategy we’re going to use also lets us “squeeze” the biggest... 
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This Unbelievable 7% Dividend Just Jumped 21% (more on the way)
One group of funds is doing something very unusual right now: they’re raising their dividends by double digits! And those huge hikes have driven the yields on some of these unsung income plays well... 
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9 Beaten-Up Tech Dividends Up to 5.9%
The Nasdaq’s recent quick 11% slip earned the “correction” label. This alarmed many newbie investors who bought technology shares hoping they would keep heading higher. We careful contrarians, on the... 
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The 6.9% Dividend With “Baked In” Double-Digit Upside
The chicken littles fretting about inflation are ignoring something: the “bonus” $2.9 trillion that’s primed to ignite stocks—one group of stocks in particular. The $2.9 trillion isn’t a new stimulus... 
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No Rate Worries Here, Just Tax-Advantaged Yields Up to 7.8%
Does a rising 10-year Treasury yield mean we should move on from municipal (muni) bonds? We’ll talk muni strategy in a moment. First, let’s pay homage to these tax-efficient payers. Munis are superior... 
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3 Shunned Stocks With Dividends Growing 206%+
There’s a quiet shift happening in the market, and we’re going to tap it for some big, and growing, dividends, plus serious price upside, too. Here’s what I mean: after tech ran the show all of last... 
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This 5% Dividend Will Bounce on the Rising-Rate Scare
We’re contrarians first and foremost here at Contrarian Outlook, so when we hear the latest “sure thing” from the mainstream crowd, we get more than a little suspicious. So it goes with the recent... 
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Should We Buy These Hotel REITs Before Their Dividends Return?
These popular dividends were taken away in 2020. But rumors of a payout comeback are swirling, and the best time to buy these stocks may be right now . Before America goes on a vacation binge, that is.... 
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These Stimulus-Powered Investments Could Soar 53%+
There’s $2 trillion in cash headed straight into the US economy, and today we’re going to grab a share, both in the form of price gains and dividends. I’m talking about the latest stimulus plan that’s... 
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Floating Rate Bonds: The Retirement Play for 2021?
My friends and I couldn’t have been more excited about our college commencement speaker. Fresh off an electrifying cameo in the 2003 comedy movie Old School , James Carville’s next act was Cornell... 
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This Stock Has a “Hidden” 6.1% Yield (and Rises With Interest Rates)
Today we’re going to bulk up our dividends—and position ourselves for some nice gains—with a group of stocks that pay us four ways as interest rates head skyward: By paying a dividend; By growing their... 
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