High-Yield ETFs With No Price Decay? What the Viral 15-Fund List Gets Wrong
A social-media post claims to identify 15 high-yield ETFs with “NO price decay since inception,” including funds advertising distributions of 40%, 34%, and even 69.2% a year. It sounds like the perfect income strategy: collect outsized cash payments without sacrificing principal. The claim is not established by the evidence in the post. A fund trading above its launch price on one particular date is not the same as a fund that protects net asset value (NAV), maintains purchasing power, or produces a sustainable return. And a large distribution is not necessarily a large profit. ...