The best I can do, aside from absolute junk, is agency bonds (farm credit banks and home loan bank GSE's). But even here you'd have to take a lot of duration risk to even approach 6%. And they're generally all continuously callable, so you can't lock-in an assured amount of income in the distant future.
Examples (CUSIP, maturity, yield to worst)
3133EPS30 1/8/2044 5.975% Farm Credit Banks
3133ERM32 12/19/2039 5.901% Farm Credit Banks
3130B4EY3 1/2/2041 5.900% Home Loan Banks
However you might want to limit exposure to agency bonds, until it is clear that the ruling party is not going to privatize them at the expense of their credit-worthiness.
There are also some A-rated corporate bonds with yields in these ranges, but you're still looking at maturities 20+ years out.
25161FU22 9/30/2044 5.946% Deutche Bank
976826BK2 10/15/2044 5.901% Wisconsin Power
29364WAV0 1/15/2045 5.880% Entergy Louisiana
48130CWW1 12/23/2044 5.801% JP Morgan
I would caution against overextending on risk just to hit an arbitrary 6% number. The market is paying what it's paying, and if you find a "bargain" like perhaps some of the names above, it merely reflects that the market knows some things about the issuer that you do not.
If you want to see the consequences of over-extension, look at the roller coasters investors in extended-duration bond funds like TLT, ZROZ, and EDV have been riding. EDV, for example, is down 10% over the past 6 months. That's a lot of volatility for a yield just over 4%. Don't try to tell these investors treasuries are "risk-free"!
For all these reasons and more,
I prefer to control risk using options. This requires some education to do correctly, but the firmness of one's upsides/downsides and the mathematical certainty of counter-correlation is to me a superior way of controlling risk than chasing bond yields.
That said, I did make $100k this time last year when yields were soaring despite imminent rate cuts. I went all into high-duration bonds and funds just as the fever broke and rates started heading down amid falling inflation. The 30y rate went from about 4.75% in late November 2023 to about 3.95% in early January 2024. I sold at the bottom in rates, AKA the top in bond prices, in late December through early January. So I'm not permanently against bonds or anything - I just don't see a justification to run that same play right now.
Another possibility, if you absolutely must hit 6%, is to incorporate some high-yielding preferred stocks with yields above 7%, like TRTN/PRC, MAA/PRI, ET/PRI, or OZKAP to raise the average yield of your asset allocation to income producers. Two caveats:
(1) Preferred stocks ARE NOT BONDS. They are often riskier. In the event of bankruptcy you'd probably get nothing. Plus they can often suspend dividends. Some are not even cumulative. Some are callable. Research the terms that are specific to each preferred stock issue on
https://www.quantumonline.com/. Also understand that preferreds can tank just like stocks, but lack their upside potential, and are near-impossible to hedge with options. Thus they fail as hedges to a mostly-stock portfolio.
(2) As with bond yields, if you spot a high-yielding "bargain" it is because the market is incorporating information you are unaware of. Keep your position sizes under control and think through worst-case scenarios.
