

Skipping the annuity keeps your principal alive and your heirs in the picture, but it also strips away the one thing an insurance company guarantees. Here is how one seven-holding portfolio threads that needle at roughly $97,000 a year.

BDCs like Main Street Capital should benefit from higher interest rates. It easily covers its dividends with its distributable net investment income.

Getting laid off at 62 means the safety nets are close but not close enough, and the gap between now and Social Security has to be funded somehow. Here is one real portfolio built to generate nearly $7,000 a month from a single lump sum while the clock runs out.

Integrated Wealth Concepts LLC lowered its position in shares of Main Street Capital Corporation (NYSE: MAIN) by 12.7% in the second quarter, according to its most recent 13F filing with the SEC. The firm owned 90,056 shares of the financial services provider's stock after selling 13,082 shares during the quarter. Integrated Wealth Concepts

Building a retirement income sleeve around seven funds sounds like diversification, but the largest position in this blueprint has a quiet habit of inflating its own payout once a year without ever promising to repeat it.

A $7,600 monthly paycheck from dividends sounds like a fixed target, but the capital you need to hit it swings wildly depending on one decision you make before you buy a single share.

Holding high-yield dividend stocks like BDCs and REITs in the wrong account silently erases hundreds of dollars every year, and most investors never see it happening until they run the actual numbers.

Quarterly dividend checks create a cash flow puzzle that leaves retirees scrambling to cover monthly bills, but a small group of stocks has quietly solved that problem in a way most income investors overlook.
SEC filings for MAIN aren't indexed yet — common for recently launched funds. Browse the issuer's filings on SEC EDGAR directly.