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What high-yield dashboards do not show you, and the checks that separate durable monthly income from slow capital liquidation.
Written by a finance professional with 17 years in asset management, treasury and rates trading.
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Treating distribution yield as income
Why a fund paying three times more can leave you poorer, and the one number that tells you what really happened to your money.
Believing rate cuts will kill the income
Option premiums depend far more on volatility than on interest rates. The numbers, and the two exceptions worth knowing.
Seeing the premium as protection
What the buy-write benchmark did in 2008, 2020 and 2022, and why a cushion is not a shield.
Owning three funds on the same index
The three properties that decide whether two covered call ETFs are actually different.
Judging a fund on two years of bull market
The same strategy matched the S&P 500 over 25 years, then trailed it badly for 14. What a real evaluation looks at.
Plus a one-page checklist
Ten questions to answer before you trust any income fund, using only the issuer's factsheet and a free total return chart. And a preview of the spending rule we develop in our upcoming ebook on covered call strategies for early retirement.
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