2 High-Yielding Dividend Picks To Fund Your Retirement

Summary

• Typically, retirement income-seeking portfolios are about accessing high and defensive yields that are also subject to decent growth.
• There could be justified instances when income growth becomes less important and instead access to abnormal yields plays an even more critical role.
• In this article, I present two high dividend picks, which could be included in retirement portfolios with an intent to boost the current income streams without assuming excessive risks.

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I have been quite actively covering high quality BDCs, equity REITs and MLPs that offer decent dividend yields with all of the necessary financial properties in place to mitigate the risk of distribution cut.

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