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The bond markets are impaired and will be for a while. Low interest rates are here to stay. Income focused ETFs with exposure to bonds will not return 4-5%. Are you getting return of capital or yield? Must look into the structure where the returns are coming from. Both are similar. Both ZMI and XTR give you exposure to diversified income. All fixed income has negative return after inflation.
The fund owns a mix of global bonds and stocks, with 57% equity exposure and 40% US exposure. It also owns 10% cash. While certainly not risk free, it is a well-balanced ETF paying a 4.75% dividend and we would consider it fairly conservative.
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This is a great ETF. 50% equity and 50% fixed income and is yield weighted. They take the highest yield of the equity ETFs that they have and then take the highest yielding fixed income ETFs that they have and then put them together. Yield is about 4.6%.