I always wanted to be an inventor. That's when I started really thinking about how I could bring some extra money in, but without sacrificing that safety net that I had built at my job.
Annaly's dividend coverage is tight but intact. The company paid $0.70 per share quarterly throughout 2025, and its non-GAAP earnings available for distribution covered that payout in every quarter, ranging from $0.72 to $0.73 per share.
The ETF itself is a bond fund that tracks a market of investment-grade U.S. agency mortgage-backed securities, meaning pools of home loans packaged into bonds and issued or guaranteed by Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and Ginnie Mae.
The Invesco DB Commodity Index Tracking Fund (NYSEARCA:DBC) is up 42% over the past year, and nearly 29% year-to-date. These gains reflect a war that has scrambled global commodity supply chains from crude oil to wheat to fertilizer.
Today's featured high-yield dividend ETFs can bring you passive income without excessive risk. I rejected any fund that doesn't provide enough diversification; in addition, we will only include ETFs with high-quality stocks. Additionally, we will take expense ratios (i.e., annual operating fees deducted from an ETF's share price) into account. If a fund's expense ratio is over 1%, that's too expensive for this list.
The fund blends high yield corporate bonds, senior loans, and debt tranches of U.S. collateralized loan obligations (CLOs) into a single actively managed portfolio, aiming to deliver income that beats the broad bond market while keeping volatility lower than any single segment on its own.
