The good news is that the financial landscape has evolved to offer a "paycheck replacement." The goal here is simple in that you want to have a reliable income every month that doesn't force you to sell assets, especially at the wrong time. High-yield ETFs can make this very easy by packaging income, diversification, and professional management into a single holding and offering you a "paycheck" that feels familiar.
The logic holds that when a company has a shareholder-unfriendly component of its portfolio - e.g. the business in question is cyclical, or it is low-growth or low margin - the company should diversify to make that business less-shareholder unfriendly. I take on the fallacy in this Playing to Win/Practitioner Insights (PTW/PI) piece entitled Diversification Can't Disappear a Strategy Problem: It Just Creates a Different Problem. And as always, you can find all the previous PTW/PI here.
Millennium's recent hires of Grau and Reich reflect continued interest in credit strategies, despite a noted decrease in demand for these approaches moving into 2025.