When an ETF pays weekly distributions sometimes exceeding 1% of its share price while claiming a 35% yield, you have to look closer and understand what's going on. Roundhill QDTE ETF ( NASDAQ:QDTE) launched in March 2024 with a simple promise: sell daily options on tech stocks, collect the premium, distribute it weekly. Nearly two years in, the fund has attracted $913 million in assets and a devoted following of income seekers.
If you want a $7.7k monthly income on a $500k portfolio, some may call you crazy, but it is still possible. ETFs like the iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond Buywrite Strategy ETF (BATS:TLTW ) , FT Vest Gold Strategy Target Income ETF (BATS:IGLD ) , and the Ubs Ag Etracs Silver Shares Covered Call ETN Exp 21 Apr 2033 (NASDAQ:SLVO ) give you very high yields and a respectable safety profile that can boost your yields massively if you put them in your portfolio.
High-yield ETFs have been quite the buzz this year. While covered call ETFs (or premium income, as some are referred to) are really nothing new for the world of passive investors, I do think that many of the swollen yields have attracted investor attention due to the lower (and falling) yields, particularly in the defensive dividend stocks, which have also had decent years. Indeed, there seems to be somewhat less yield going around, and not enough to satiate some of the more aggressive passive income investors out there.
