Searching for income returns better than bank term deposits has become the clarion cry from many investors ever since the world’s central banks took official interest rates where rates have never been before!  So it’s timely for me to look at alternative sources of income on the day we’ve held our annual first Switzer Income Conference, which has the unfortunate acronym of SIC!

When young people are impressed with something they’ll say it’s “sick”, which makes me think, appropriately, that our SIC to some would be described as “Sick!”

Enough already. Let me get to the point: income generation from stocks has been good for some time.