Yield of Dreams
We are now over 1400 days after the official end of the Great Recession, and the Federal Reserve is still holding interest rates at...
A Sleep Well(esley) at Night Fund
You can be sure that 90% of what you read about retirement investing is either (A) not very helpful or (B) confusing. Yet there...
Up 30% with GNMA
You’re right to be concerned about higher interest rates and a decline in bond prices. Yet it would be a shame to miss the...
They’ll Wonder How You Live So Well
The businesses of the top 10 companies in the Vanguard Dividend Achievers fund could easily be part of your Saturday morning errands, especially if...
Need Yield?
Do you invest in stocks for income? Is your portfolio focused primarily on U.S. stocks? If so, you might consider diversifying globally. The dividend...
A Simple Strategy for Stock Market Success
For over four decades I have used a simple strategy to successfully invest in the stock market. I invest exclusively in dividend paying stocks....
How to Boost the Yield on Your Portfolio
Punishing yields of 0.05% on three-month T-bills and .85% on short-term Treasury notes are devastating to the millions of investors who rely on income from their portfolios to fund living expenses.
Top 10 Mistakes #2
The #2 item on my list of the ten most common mistakes investors make is discounting the importance of compound interest. Albert Einstein described compound interest as the greatest mathematical discovery of all time.
Learn an Investment Lesson from an Ivy League’s Mistakes
One of the country’s top Ivy League universities lost 27% of its endowment in the last fiscal year while this fund was down only 3.6%…
Stock Valuations are Not Low
How can I say this best? Stock market valuations are not low. If you are retired or saving in hopes of retiring, you must laser focus on having a consistent flow of cold cash to pay the tab for your weekly grass-fed-to-the-end beef, fresh-ground flax, coconut milk loaded with medium-chain fatty acids, and omega-3-loaded Country Hen organic eggs.