Global Dividends

For those of us who live off our investment income and Social Security, Global Dividends is a godsend. Just now it presents the following “top income ideas”:

• The Absolute Best Dividend Stocks in America

• The Best MLP You’ve Never Heard Of

• Invest in ‘Irreplaceable Assets’ and Earn a 5% Yield With This Stock
• My Favorite Emerging-Markets Play Yields 5%

• 2 New Dividend Payers That May Take Off

• How Anyone Can Invest Like Hedge Funds—Only With Lower Fees and Risks

At this writing, the feature article (by Carla Pasternak) lists the top 10 holdings of the S&P Dividend Aristocrats Index. The top three: PBI (10.2%), T (4.9%), NNN (4.1%). Visit more of Carla Pasternak’s blogs.

In a featured blog by  Andy Obermueller, these five exchange-traded funds are named as private-equity funds: APO, BX, CG, FIG, KKR. At his time of his writing, they were paying annual dividends ranging from 4% to 17.3%.

Top 5 dividend producers held at VOX are VZ, T, CCI, CTL, S.

And never forget: All investments and savings are gambles on the unknown future and thus subject to loss.