“There are some pretty sound companies with dividend stocks paying a 6.5% dividend like clockwork. Full liquidity if you need to sell. A great rate if you park your money in their stock.”
Definitely. A variant on that strategy I use is to invest in a mutual fund of a basket of companies that pay high dividends. Usually not as high a return as cherry picking high dividend stocks but less risk.
And then there are more risky private equity groups.