A recent study performed by Australian scientists found that the human genome predicts the species’ lifespan to be about 38 years. Modern scientific discoveries and improvements in the standard of living have increased that to about 72 years worldwide and much higher in some developed countries. It should come as no surprise that the longer you live beyond the day you retire, the more you’ll spend during retirement on maintaining your standard of living. How long can you do that? 20 years? 500 years? Here’s how I explained the idea of living to 500, and how you can plan your investment … [Read more...]
Best of Young Research 2019: General Investment Strategy
Below are five of Young Research’s most popular investment strategy posts of 2019. This is Why Vanguard is Too Big Nine Ways to Powerfully Boost Your Investment Performance Is Gold a Good Long-term Investment? Value Has Never Been Less Valued Your Retirement Life: Our Cabin on Kodiak, Alaska … [Read more...]
Warning: Avoid Mutual Fund Year End Distributions
UPDATE: The end of the year is a great time to review your mutual fund year-end distributions. You should try to avoid them if possible. If you haven't done so already, read through Fidelity's primer on Mutual Funds and Taxes below. You don’t need to worry about year-end distributions with individual stocks. But with mutual funds, you absolutely need to worry. It’s why at Young Research we favor individual stocks in our Retirement Compounders investment strategy. Here’s a primer on year-end distributions courtesy of Fidelity. Pay particular attention to tax strategies for mutual funds, or … [Read more...]
Best of Young Research 2019: Dividend Investing
Below are five of Young Research’s most popular dividend investing posts of 2019. When Dividends Pay You to be Patient Young Research's Retirement Compounders® Investment Program Procter & Gamble (PG) Stock: The Only True Dividend King The Highest Yielding S&P 500 Stocks Dividends Then and Now Are the Answer … [Read more...]
SECURE Act Passed by Congress on the Way Out the Door
You've read about the SECURE Act and the hidden taxes targeting your family that it contains. Now, while everyone is busy Christmas shopping, and just as Congress is about to leave town, the bill was smuggled into a spending bill, and pushed through the legislature. According to Barron's the bill "means a spate of changes for retirees related to their required minimum withdrawals, the way they use IRAs, and rethinking estate planning options." Reshma Kapadia reports on the bill for Barron's writing: The Setting Every Community Up for Retirement Enhancement—better known as the Secure … [Read more...]
Here’s How I Climbed on the Dividend Bandwagon
There are few histories as crucial to the course of my life as my awakening to the power of compound interest and the importance of dividends. Since my decision to climb on the dividend bandwagon, I have been an evangelist to hundreds of thousands of paid subscribers, and many more investors beyond. My message has been consistent and clear, and I don’t regret focusing on dividends a bit. Here’s how it all started. Back to Monterey and Woodstock I’ve been developing investment strategies for investors like you before The Association kicked off the 1967 Monterey International Pop Festival … [Read more...]
A Step in the Right Direction for Protecting Investors
The Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards is finally taking measures to clean up the error-filled reporting on its website that classifies many troubled financial advisors as having "clean" records. The CFP has been relying on these advisors to self-report any bad behavior, and with predictable results that has failed. Many of the advisors, who are mostly brokers and insurance agents, are regulated by FINRA as well. FINRA has disclosed their bad behavior, but CFP has missed the mark. That might finally change. Jason Zweig and Andrea Fuller report at The Wall Street Journal: The … [Read more...]
Sweden Raises Rates—All the Way to Zero
After being one of the first countries to lead the world into the negative interest rate era, Sweden has decided to end that policy. Paul Hannon reports in The Wall Street Journal: In 2009, the Riksbank, the world’s oldest central bank, became the first to charge commercial banks to hold deposits rather than pay them interest. In 2015, it lowered its key policy rate below zero, following a similar move by the European Central Bank the year before. On Thursday, the Riksbank raised the key rate to zero from minus 0.25%. The bank moved because a majority of its policy makers expect inflation … [Read more...]
Minimum Wage Hike is Why Long-Standing California Restaurants Are Closing
Restaurants in Sacramento are closing up shop citing the impending Jan 1, 2020 minimum wage hike in California. Some of these institutions have been in business for decades. The new hourly minimum wage will rise to $13. Compare California’s min wage to the “open for business” state of Utah. The Beehive state has a minimum wage of $7.50 and, guess what else—rising wages. When money is respected, good things happen. That is exactly what’s happening in rich states like Utah. Here's the story of one businessman being hurt by the minimum wage hikes from Fox … [Read more...]
The Dividend King of the North
Which Canadian stocks are dividend kings? If you go by the internet’s definition of a dividend king (50 consecutive years of dividend increases), there aren’t any dividend kings in Canada, but as we wrote here, there can only be one true dividend king. The Dividend King of the United States is Procter & Gamble. Procter & Gamble is the dividend king of the U.S. because it has increased its dividend annually for 65 consecutive years (tied for first with one other company). Who is the Canadian Dividend King? There aren’t any Canadian companies that meet the 50-year dividend king … [Read more...]
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