EVT has delivered a 203% price return over a decade while paying nearly 8% monthly, and RQI offers the group's highest yield at 9%.
UTG more than doubled its monthly payout over two decades as rising electricity demand from AI data centers and electrification strengthens its utility holdings.
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Income investors chasing yield often stop at the biggest names in the category, overlooking a quiet corner of the market where three closed-end funds have paid monthly distributions for more than two decades. Eaton Vance Tax-Advantaged Dividend Income Fund (NYSE:EVT), Reaves Utility Income Fund (NYSE:UTG), and Cohen & Steers Quality Income Realty Fund (NYSE:RQI) each pay somewhere between roughly 6.5% and 8% annualized through consistent monthly checks, drawn from three very different pockets of the equity market.
Closed-end funds trade like stocks but hold actively managed portfolios, and their structure allows them to use modest leverage and distribute realized gains alongside dividends and interest. That combination is why these three can sustain payouts well above those of an S&P 500 index fund. It is also why they get less coverage than the mega-ETFs that dominate income headlines.
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UTG more than doubled its monthly payout over two decades as rising electricity demand from AI data centers and electrification strengthens its utility holdings.
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Income investors chasing yield often stop at the biggest names in the category, overlooking a quiet corner of the market where three closed-end funds have paid monthly distributions for more than two decades. Eaton Vance Tax-Advantaged Dividend Income Fund (NYSE:EVT), Reaves Utility Income Fund (NYSE:UTG), and Cohen & Steers Quality Income Realty Fund (NYSE:RQI) each pay somewhere between roughly 6.5% and 8% annualized through consistent monthly checks, drawn from three very different pockets of the equity market.
Closed-end funds trade like stocks but hold actively managed portfolios, and their structure allows them to use modest leverage and distribute realized gains alongside dividends and interest. That combination is why these three can sustain payouts well above those of an S&P 500 index fund. It is also why they get less coverage than the mega-ETFs that dominate income headlines.
#NYSE #utility #decades
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