3 High-Yield Stocks For The Coming Wave Of Retirees

By Kevin Quon:As the underwriters exercise their allotment option for an additional 1.2 million shares, the full IPO process of Select Income REIT (SIR) came to a close on Monday. In its completion, the real estate investment trust raised a rough $196 million. The company had become a publicly listed entity on March 7 through an offering of 8 million shares priced at $21.5/share.

By MyPlanIQ:Lisa Springer of Street Authority sets out to find companies that combine strong growth prospects with better than average yields. This was of interest to me as, I am interested in yields for income and growth for, well, growth. I was curious to see whether her screening ends up with investment choices that would be appealing to those looking for income and retirment portfolios.

By Sol Palha:The markets are rather overbought, and long term dividend investors would be best served by waiting for a pullback (a strong one) before committing large sums to this market. Our two favorite plays on this list are Senior Housing Properties Trust (SNH) and Southern Copper Corp (SCCO).

By S.R.T.Z Investments:Senior Housing Properties Trust (SNH) is a REIT which owns a variety of healthcare and senior-housing real-estate assets: independent living and assisted living communities, continuing care retirement communities, nursing homes, wellness centers, medical offices, clinic and biotech laboratory buildings.

By David Zanoni:With many of the baby boomers (those born between 1946 and 1964) starting to retire, it would be wise to pick an investment or two that would benefit from this demographic. Beginning this past January, about 10,000 baby boomers will turn 65 each day – that means there are about 3.65 million potential retirees every year for the next 17 years.

By Kapitall:Do you prefer stocks that pay reliable dividend income? For a closer look at some interesting dividend stocks, we ran a screen. We began by screening for stocks paying big dividend yields above 4% and sustainable payout ratios below 50%.

By Kapitall:Do you prefer stocks that pay part of their return in dividend income? For a closer look at interesting dividend stocks, we ran a screen.

By Plan B Economics:If you look at year to date performance, the typical defensive sectors have outperformed. While most sectors are negative for the year, healthcare is up 6.10% and utilities are up 9.17% (as of December 16, 2011). With the average dividend yield for utilities companies at 4.72%, many income-seekers are considering investing in this sector. However, not all utilities are created equal.