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Monthly bills don't care about quarterly dividend schedules, and one S&P 500 ETF built its entire identity around solving that mismatch. But the convenience of a monthly paycheck comes with a cost that decade-long performance data makes impossible to ignore.
State Street built a second S&P 500 fund specifically to pay larger quarterly checks, and most SPY investors have never heard of it. Before you move any money, there is a performance cost buried in the comparison that changes the math entirely.