Author: Michael Foster, Contrarian Outlook

With the jaw-dropping stock-market dives we’ve seen in the last 3 months, you can be forgiven if your stomach tightens just a bit when you go to check your retirement account. So today I’m going to give you my 3 best tips for securing your hard-earned cash.

These are solid bets for serious upside and a dividend stream of 7%.

These ridiculous markdowns are already starting to narrow, so we need to make our move soon.

If you’re looking for a proven dividend payer that will hold its own through today’s troubles—trade wars and rising interest rates, to name just two—these 20 funds are a great place to start.

These funds are on our just-updated CEF Insider Watch List.