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Sustaining Your Retirement Income Through the Next Bear Market

Tim Plaehn Editor The Dividend Hunter

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Tim Plaehn

• Lead investment research analyst for income and

dividend investing at Investors Alley.

• Air Force Academy Graduate –1979– with a degree

in mathematics.

• Nine years as an Air Force pilot and instructor pilot.
• Post Air Force a stint as a registered securities rep,

and Certified Financial Planner.

• Launched Dividend Hunter service in June 2014.

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The Problem

• After retiring many retirees must depend on

earnings or withdrawals from a lump sum amount to fund a part of their retirement income.

• The challenge is to produce enough income

through the ups and downs of the markets, including the inevitable Bear Market(s).

• Predicting or Timing stock market swings is a

daunting to impossible task.

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The traditional "4% rule" withdrawal rate sets retirees up to run out of money, possibly when they need it the most.

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Ivory tower researchers have designed a large number of strategies to attempt to ensure that retirement lump sums don't run out of money before retirees run out of time. An article by Wade Pfau, Ph.D., CFA was titled "39 Modern Retirement Income Planning Techniques". Yes, 39 different possible strategies.

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Midstream MLPs Big sector with different sub-sectors

• Fewer drill rigs will hit gathering focused MLPs
• Sponsor assets may be undervalued

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I am not a retirement planning expert, but I know a few things:

• Probabilities only work for large numbers and

individual results can and will vary significantly from large group percentages.

• 39 different strategies means that a really good

solution is very difficult to find.

• I prefer the most simple to employ approach to

get the job done.

• My Dividend Hunter service provides the tools and

stock recommendations to help you invest for a more secure retirement plan.

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Today I want to present a simple strategy to "Generate 6% Dividends or More for Retirement Without Spending Down Your Capital". Just because the basic strategy may be simple, the execution will likely be more complicated.

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A Set of “Simple” Rules

• Invest in dividend stocks with an average portfolio yield

greater than 6%.

• Only draw 6% (or less) in cash from your retirement

investments portfolio.

• Reinvest all excess dividends back into your dividend

stocks to generate larger dividend amounts in the future.

• Build a cash flow cushion for higher expenses or

dividend reductions.

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Can this be done?

• The 20 stocks in the current recommendations list for my

Dividend Hunter service have an average yield of 8.0%.

• Individual stock yields range from 4.9% to 16%.
• Let's go over some strategy rules.

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Diversify across 20 to 25 higher yielding stocks The high yield shares tend to come out of a few sectors, so you need to pay special attention to the types of businesses in which you are investing.

• For example Starwood Property Trust, Inc. (STWD) and

TPG Real Estate Finance Trust (TRTX) are both in the commercial mortgage business. I have selected the most secure dividend of the two to be in the Dividend Hunter recommendations list.

• High yield stock sectors include finance REITs,

equity/property REITs (lots of subsectors in this group),BDCs, energy infrastructure, and offshore domiciled companies that pay low taxes and higher dividends.

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Research to understand how each of your income stocks produces cash available for dividends. To be high yield a stock will be either misunderstood

• r dangerous to your portfolio value.

Follow the jargon: FFO, AFFO, DCF, CAD, not EPS

• You need to see either a growing cash flow per

share trend or very high cash flow coverage.

• A couple of analysis examples:

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Aircastle Limited (AYR) is an offshore domiciled commercial aircraft leasing company. Current yield of 5.8% with 8% to 10% annual dividend growth.

• $1.20 current annual dividend rate vs. EPS of $3.17.

Even better, business generates more than $5.00 per share in free cash flow.

• This is a great stock to buy or hold during market

corrections.

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New Residential Investment (NRZ) is a finance REIT that owns non-mainstream financial assets related to residential mortgages. Currently yields 11.9%. A very high yield stock.

• NRZ pays out a high percentages of “core earnings

per share” as dividends. Last few quarters earnings

• f $0.55 to $0.60/share vs. $0.50 dividend. Over

last 3 years dividend has grown from $0.45.

• Great company and stock, with a triple-digit total

return since early 2016 correction. Must watch the core earnings vs. dividends every quarter to make sure the company remains on track.

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Avoid stocks that require extensive and complicated hedging strategies to protect expected free cash flow results.

• Agency mortgage backed security portfolio REITs.
• Upstream, oil and gas producing MLPs. These have

all gone bankrupt or restructured to something that doesn’t pay dividends. A lesson to not forget. History has shown that when underlying prices change significantly, hedges do not preserve distributable cash flow, they just hold off or delay the day of declaring bankruptcy.

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Change Your Mindset About Share Prices!

• Falling share values are an opportunity not a curse.
• Buy low to earn a higher yield and larger dividends.
• Your stock selections are based on your cash flow

per share research and not influenced by share prices.

• Take a profit if one of your shares moves rapidly

higher, and the yield no longer make sense.

• For example, in the last market crash, AYR dropped

to less than $3.00 per share. Free cash flow per year was over $4.00 per share. Dividend was cut, but two years later the stock was in the mid-teens with a growing dividend.

www.TheDividendHunter.com Strategy Recap

• Build a diversified portfolio of 20 to 25 stable high yield stocks.
• Goal is an average yield well above 6%.
• Reinvest extra dividend income to grow future dividend payments.
• Security of cash flow to pay dividends is the primary analysis factor.
• Share prices and temporary portfolio value declines should not be a

concern.

• History shows that share prices of dividend paying stocks will recover

from a bear market. Reinvesting dividends will boost that recovery.

• Balance your portfolio for more income or more growth.

www.TheDividendHunter.com Have an Emergency Amount Set Aside

• This all is great, but a deep recession driven bear market will likely be

accompanied by individual dividend reductions. Definitely by uncomfortable share price drops

• Have an idea of which of your dividend stocks would be more likely to

cut dividends. More importantly, which ones should sustain dividends through a downturn.

• Set aside money into a safe investment that you can tap through the

bear market. One-year’s worth of expenses will give you peace of

• mind. Do this now and let it build.
• I currently recommend a bond ladder type of strategy in the Invesco

Investment Grade BulletShares ETFs.

• These are unique, fixed maturity bond ETFs that currently yield 3.5%

to 4%.

www.TheDividendHunter.com How Much Can You Earn With a High Yield Portfolio?

• Remember the goal is to pay yourself a retirement income and also

reinvest a portion of earnings for future income growth.

• I find that investors overly focus on the higher yields, which are the

higher risk stocks. Don’t fall into this trap.

• Have a portfolio management strategy. Think balance, balance,

balance amount your income stock holdings.

• Be ready to shift priorities if the economy shows real signs of distress.
• Here are some hypothetical portfolio balancing ideas and how much

cash flow would result from $100,000 of investment.

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Some High-Yielders to Research Arbor Realty Trust (ABR). Commercial finance REIT focused on

financing for multi-family residential real estate. Full service company from origination, servicing, securitization and holding loans for its own

• portfolio. Nicely growing dividend and 7.9% yield.

Hercules Capital Inc. (HTGC). Two years ago this venture capital focused BDC dismayed investors by trying to take management

• external. The plan was reversed, but the stock never recovered.

Regular dividend just increased. Current yield: 9.9%. Virtus InfraCap Preferred Stock ETF (PFFA) is a new, actively managed ETF to compete with PFF. Active selection of preferreds plus moderate leverage allows PFFA to yield over 9% vs. 6% for PFF. Monthly dividends.

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