How To Get 11% Dividends And Wealth Protection In 2025 [Forbes]
Western Asset High Income Opportunity Fund, Inc. (HIO)
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Obviously, that's been great for the equity funds we hold in CEF Insider , which give us price gains from their stock holdings, of course—but they also give us a huge slice of our gains in cash, thanks to their outsized yields. But at times like this, we do need to take a step back and consider what's going on behind a historic gain like this. While corporate earnings are rising, they're doing so more slowly than stock prices, which is why the S&P 500's price-to-earnings (P/E) ratio is 28, as of this writing, nearly double its long-term average of 16.1. This puts more pressure on companies to keep earnings growing at a brisk pace in 2025. So we're left with a situation where continued momentum means stocks are likely to keep rising, but the risks of short-term volatility are rising, too. There is, however, a way we can offset some of that volatility: Buy CEFs holding corporate bonds. We currently hold four in our CEF Insider portfolio, and they yield around 11% on average. That
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- 12/11/24 - Form 3
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- 11/25/24 - Form N-CSR
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