{"id":41923,"date":"2023-07-29T07:29:48","date_gmt":"2023-07-29T11:29:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ifintechworld.com\/investing\/this-common-investing-mistake-will-cost-you-20-gains-and-10-dividends\/"},"modified":"2023-07-29T07:29:50","modified_gmt":"2023-07-29T11:29:50","slug":"this-common-investing-mistake-will-cost-you-20-gains-and-10-dividends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ifintechworld.com\/?p=41923","title":{"rendered":"This Common Investing Mistake Will Cost You 20% Gains (And 10% Dividends)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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One mistake I\u2019ve seen investors make time and time again<\/em> is leaning too heavily on the latest \u201cinvestment product\u201d their bank is pitching them.<\/p>\n

The problem arises because at the heart of the banking system lies a key conflict of interest: banks make money off fees and interest charged on investments, loans, credit cards and other products, so they\u2019re motivated to get you to use those tools more.<\/p>\n

But that usually lies at cross-purposes with our goal as income\u2014and more specifically closed-end fund (CEF)\u2014investors: to retire early on a high income stream (and ideally on our dividends alone), with no need for banks\u2019 expensive loans and debts.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s no wonder the 500 or so CEFs out there, whose average yield clocks in north of 8% now (with dividends often paid monthly) never get bankers\u2019 attention\u2014and are never among the products they recommend to their clients!<\/p>\n

Buyer beware doesn\u2019t just extend to big banks\u2019 retail products, by the way: even their investing advice needs a big disclaimer on it. Many bank execs and economists were bearish last year, including Morgan Stanley
\n MS
\n <\/fbs-ticker> CIO Mike Wilson. Last year, he said the slowdown in economic growth, which would get worse, wasn\u2019t fully priced in; thus he called for stocks to fall 10% in 2023.<\/p>\n

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Anyone who sold late last year has locked in their 2022 losses and missed out on a near-20% rebound in the S&P 500 this year (not to mention a near-42% return on the NASDAQ
\n NDAQ
\n <\/fbs-ticker>). And as studies have shown, once investors have sold out of the market, they often wait too long to buy back in\u2014and miss out on more gains.<\/p>\n

Be Your Own Bank With This 10% Yielder<\/h2>\n

Banks, at their core, have a simple operation: take in cash, have some available for customers when necessary, and lend the rest so they collect income that, in turn, provides their profits.<\/p>\n

CEFs operate very much on the same principle. If you buy the PIMCO Corporate & Income Opportunity Fund (PTY) <\/strong>you\u2019re very much buying into something like a bank.<\/p>\n

PTY takes $2 billion of cash, makes 10% of it available to PTY shareholders, thanks to its 10% dividend yield that is paid out monthly, and uses the rest to lend money to companies of all stripes; even if you\u2019ve never heard of PTY, you know the companies it lends to: Ford Motor
\n F
\n <\/fbs-ticker> Company, Verizon Media, and Carnival Corporation are just three of the 400+ debtors PTY has lent money to.<\/p>\n

PTY has made a ton of wealth doing this; its 10% income stream is not only fully covered by current fund returns, it\u2019s over<\/em>covered, which would most likely result in the big special dividends this fund gave out in the 2010s, causing PTY\u2019s annualized yield to rise as high as 20%.<\/p>\n

Note too that the fund\u2019s dividend payout has remained stable throughout, as well\u2014although a lot of people say double-digit yields are unsustainable, PIMCO\u2019s fund disproves that pretty easily. And since PTY is a CEF, you can buy or sell anytime stock exchanges are open.<\/p>\n

In other words, with PTY you\u2019re getting to be the bank and collect a double-digit yield with pretty much zero effort. Which makes the dividend checks, when they start coming in, feel almost magical.<\/p>\n

Michael Foster is the Lead Research Analyst for <\/em>Contrarian Outlook<\/em>. For more great income ideas, click here for our latest report \u201c<\/em>Indestructible Income: 5 Bargain Funds with Steady 10.4% Dividends.<\/em>\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Disclosure: none<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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