Our “1980s Redux” Bond Strategy for 9.9% Dividends

It’s back to the 1980s in the corporate-bond world—with yields through the roof. (I’m talking safe 9.9%+ payouts when we buy bonds through high-yielding funds like the one we’ll delve into below.) If you were investing back then, you may recall that bond yields soared well into double-digit territory before falling back to earth: Source: Economic Report of the President (2012), Government Printing Office In other words, if you bought a corporate-bond fund in 1981, you’d have gotten a 14.2% return every year for the bonds’ duration, which in some cases was a decade. And you’d have gotten that return in cash.… Read more