Better Than a Mattress? These Bond Funds, I’m Not So Sure
July 21, 2021 at 05:00 AM EDT
The market looks like it’s about to fall apart. Which means we contrarians will step in, and smartly bank more dividend for our dollar. Some of us park our dry powder in cash. Others stash in conservative bond funds to juice a bit more yield out of our savings. Let’s talk about these bonds because this is an ideal time to say goodbye to them (for a while!) As dividend investors, we are naturally allergic to cash. After all, why leave money in dollars earning nothing when we can move it to a stock or fund yielding something ? As I write our Contrarian Income Report portfolio yields 6.3%.… Read more
