Toss the Spreadsheet! Here’s How to Manage Your Dividends Like a Boss

Three weeks into 2024 and here’s the state of play: rates have fallen and likely headed lower. That’s going to light a fire under our favorite dividend payers. It already has! Think back three months, to mid-October. Back then, 10-year Treasury yields sat at just under 5%. Now they sit at 4.1%—a 19% drop! It’s been great for our dividend payers, as income-hungry folks start to look for other options. That shift has just started, and it’s got plenty more room to run. Consider the 8.5%-paying Cohen & Steers Infrastructure Fund (UTF) , a closed-end fund (CEF) that’s a classic dividend play, holding shares of “recession-resistant” utilities like NextEra Energy (NEE) and Southern Company (SO) .… Read more