{"id":3986,"date":"2023-10-21T13:09:10","date_gmt":"2023-10-21T13:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infundpros.com\/markets\/these-overblown-worries-set-up-this-10-yields-in-2024\/"},"modified":"2023-10-21T13:09:11","modified_gmt":"2023-10-21T13:09:11","slug":"these-overblown-worries-set-up-this-10-yields-in-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infundpros.com\/?p=3986","title":{"rendered":"These Overblown Worries Set Up This 10% Yields In 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Look, I\u2019ll be honest: I\u2019m bullish on our favorite income investments, high-yield closed-end funds (CEFs), as we head toward 2024.<\/p>\n

Fact is, these overlooked income stalwarts are still<\/em> on sale after the 2022 pullback, with the ticker we\u2019ll talk about below going for an absurd 17.2% below its true value.<\/p>\n

We can thank CEF investors\u2019 conservative nature for that\u2014they still don\u2019t trust this year\u2019s rebound. So our chance to grab big payouts at a discount is still available. Right now, the portfolio of my CEF Insider<\/em> service is generating a rich 9.9% average yield.<\/p>\n

But that said, we always need to keep an eye on factors that could go sideways in the future, so we can shift gears\u2014and protect our capital and income streams\u2014at a moment\u2019s notice.<\/p>\n

As I\u2019ve looked at the markets over the last decade, the biggest risks have changed a lot. Heck, they\u2019ve changed a lot since the banking mini-crisis last March. Let\u2019s get into the main ones now, and put them in perspective so we can build our income portfolios with confidence.<\/p>\n

Risk #1: US Bankruptcies Rise<\/h2>\n

High interest rates are a risk for the economy because they make debt pricier\u2014in turn making it tougher for highly indebted people and businesses to pay the bills.<\/p>\n

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That\u2019s Business 101, and to be sure, that post-2022 line in the chart above does<\/em> look worrying. But with this and all statistics, context is everything. Already, this chart shows bankruptcies are only a bit higher than they were in 2019, not a bad year economically speaking. And when we zoom out further, things look better still.<\/p>\n

Source: U.S. Courts, Debt.org<\/em><\/p>\n

Bankruptcy rates have been falling for a long time, and until we see them triple from today\u2019s levels, we\u2019re nowhere near where we were in the bubble years of the early 2000s.<\/p>\n

To be honest, I think that is<\/em> likely to happen, but it\u2019s going to take years, maybe a decade. If this keeps you on the sidelines, you could miss out on considerable gains: just in the last 10 years, for example, the S&P 500 rose a little over 200%.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s a saying in finance: sometimes being early is the same as being wrong. Situations like this are why that statement rings true.<\/p>\n

Risk #2: Inflation Makes a Comeback<\/h2>\n

The biggest risk, at least in the eyes of readers of my columns on Contrarian Outlook and my CEF Insider<\/em> service, seems to be inflation.<\/p>\n

And inflation is the most visible economic phenomenon: everyone<\/em> notices when prices go up, most notably on the big signs at gas stations. (Funny thing is, even though these are quite literally the poster children for inflation, Americans only spend 2.24% of their income on gas on average, according to J.D. Power data.) But jumps in prices for things like gas may prompt Americans to spend less overall. That hasn\u2019t happened yet (see point #3 below), but it\u2019s a risk. So how big is this concern now?<\/p>\n

Over the long term, inflation is weakening. Last month\u2019s jump from 3.2% to 3.7% is a little worrying, but it\u2019s too early to say this is a significant risk. So while we can say the inflation risk has risen very slightly, the key thing we need to dig into is whether this is stopping Americans from spending.<\/p>\n

Risk #3: Americans Stop Spending<\/h2>\n

Firstly, the answer to that is no.<\/p>\n

In 2023, Americans have trended towards spending more year over year, even after accounting for inflation. There\u2019s a bigger worry for the long term, though: that the growth in Americans\u2019 wealth will slow or stop altogether.<\/p>\n

This is a perennial concern, which paradoxically is why it\u2019s not something we don\u2019t need to worry much about: while leaders in places like Thailand or Russia might not care if their citizens get richer, the corporate world cares a lot <\/em>about Americans getting richer because it depends on them to buy its products. Besides, this chart of the very<\/em> long term shows this isn\u2019t a concern.<\/p>\n

Here we see the amount of discretionary spending power of each American individual after <\/em>accounting for inflation. It\u2019s been up and to the right for decades.<\/p>\n

We\u2019ve seen real disposable personal income rise 7.7% over the last five years, which is much greater than the 1.8% average rise over the last 30 years and the 2.1% gain we\u2019ve seen since this data was first collected in 1959.<\/p>\n

At a fundamental level, Americans are getting richer. And they\u2019re spending more.<\/p>\n

After inflation, people over the last five years have been spending 2.4% per year more on average, again more than the 2% growth we\u2019ve seen on average since this data was first collected in 2007. (Bear in mind that these figures are averages taken across the entire US population.)<\/p>\n

Economic Fears Set the Table for This 10% Payer<\/h2>\n

For us income investors, the best move in this environment is to buy a CEF like the General American Investors Fund (GAM).<\/strong> Over 90 years of age, it\u2019s one of the oldest CEFs out there and holds some of the most established companies, including waste manager Republic Services (RSG), Microsoft (MSFT), Apple (AAPL) <\/strong>and Berkshire Hathaway (BRK).<\/strong><\/p>\n

GAM\u2019s net asset value (NAV, or its underlying portfolio) has also had a strong year, nudging ahead of the S&P 500. And thanks to that 17.2% discount to NAV, we can essentially buy the fund\u2019s portfolio at late-2022 prices (these discounts are yet another edge we CEF investors love).<\/p>\n

Those gains are why GAM will likely pay a big special dividend this year, which it typically announces in early November (GAM pays out most of its dividend as a one-time year-end payout made up of income and gains on its portfolio). I\u2019m expecting an overall 10% annualized yield from this one payout alone, which would be a big jump from last year\u2019s sub-5% yield.<\/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 10.2% Dividends.<\/em>\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

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

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