The 2.4 % yield offered on a 10 - year U.S. Treasury note doesn't provide
enough safe income to fund a full retirement, nor does the 1.8 % average yield among companies in the Standard & Poor's 500 - stock index.
Not exact matches
My first company had created inventory control software for small local businesses — a
safe bet that made me
enough immediate
income to pay for college and an apartment, but little more.
Generally speaking, you can expect cash deposits, direct deposits and
incoming wires to process before withdrawals in the same day, so as long as you are depositing
enough money to cover the day's expenses, you should be
safe from an overdraft situation.
In short, for investors with a long
enough horizon, there may be no better way to generate a lifetime of
safe, steadily - growing
income than by owning a select group of these stocks.
Even if you are planning on having
enough retirement
income, it is better to be
safe, and the premium is usually quite inexpensive.