Hungry for yield? While the 10-year U.S. Treasury yield finished yesterday’s trading above 1.50%, marking its highest level in more than a year, that’s still a crummy rate for retirement income purposes.

A possible solution could include various exchange-traded funds offering meaty yields via income strategies that entail the likes of energy infrastructure, mortgages, real estate investment trusts, business development companies and preferred securities.

All of the funds listed below in this piece have attracted significant assets, though some are quite pricey. Many of them saw their share prices hammered last year, particularly those invested in the energy patch. But most members of this group of high-yielding products are off to fast starts this year regarding price performance, which speaks to the potential volatility that comes with chasing high-yield strategies.

But for investors with their eyes on the prize of high yield, and who are willing to tolerate the potential volatility that comes with some of these strategies, one or some of the ETFs in this group might be the ticket for juicing their investment income.

Yields are presented two ways: 30-day SEC yield and 12-month distribution yield. The SEC yield is the last 30 days of accrued income, which includes interest and dividends, as well as a fund’s expenses. The distribution yield is the last monthly distribution payment made—that number is annualized and divided by a fund’s end-of-month net asset value. The 30-day reflects expenses that would be deducted, so it’s the most accurate depiction of the yield.

The following list of 10 ETFs are presented in ascending order based on their recent SEC 30-day yields.

10. iShares Mortgage Real Estate Capped ETF (REM)
The ticker symbol of this fund might strike a chord with fans of the former Athens, Ga.-based rock band of the same name, but it also might tickle the fancy of income investors. REM tracks an index composed of U.S. REITs that hold U.S. residential and commercial mortgages.
 
30-day SEC Yield: 6.94%
Assets under management: $1.4 billion
Expense ratio: 0.48%
Year-to-date share price return (through Feb. 25): 5.37%
2020 share price return: -20.7%