A high-yield savings account can help you earn the most on your savings Written By Written by Staff Senior Editor, Buy Side Miranda Marquit is a staff senior personal finance editor for Buy Side.

SPYD offers a 4.7% yield from 80 equally weighted high-dividend S&P 500 stocks with a 0.07% expense ratio. The fund’s quarterly dividends fluctuated 31% in 2025. Its 5-year total return of 68% trails ...

A high-yield savings account is essentially the same as a traditional savings account with one key difference — high-yield savings accounts pay a higher than average APY on deposits. An APY, or annual ...

Getting the best rate as a saver has been a little more difficult since the Federal Reserve started cutting its benchmark rate toward the end of 2024. Fed officials slowed their pace in 2025, ...

Depending on your bank's APY, you can realistically earn about $1,500 to $2,000 in interest in 2026 with a high-yield savings account and a $50,000 balance. My team tracks savings rates daily, and I ...

ETFs that consistently deliver years of steady dividend growth are few and far between. The simple, yet effective strategy used by the iShares Core Dividend Growth ETF is working. It's overweight in ...

With more than 15 years of experience crafting content about all aspects of personal finance, Michael Benninger knows how to identify smart moves for your money. His work has been published by Intuit, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Brett uses “second-level thinking” to find dividend stocks to buy. The Dow Jones Industrial Average itself yields modestly, but ...

I present my top 10 high-yield dividend-paying companies for 2026, emphasizing sustainable income, growth, and capital appreciation. Selections include AXA, Allianz, PepsiCo, Verizon, Nestlé, Realty ...

While Stephen Miran will leave the Federal Reserve at the end of the month, he continues to press for big rate cuts. He formerly was the chair of the White House Council of Economic Advisers. Most Fed ...

Invesco High Yield Equity Dividend Achievers ETF tracks the Nasdaq US Dividend Achievers 50 Index, a collection of high-yielding companies that have increased dividends for at least ten consecutive ...