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The stratospheric yields of mortgage REITs

  • mortgage REIT investing
  • February 28, 2012
The double-digit yields and extraordinary general returns of mortgage Real Estate Investment Trusts, or mortgage REITs, continue to leave investors...
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The great stock market dividend convergence, part II

Disgruntled from nearly a decade of volatile and uncertain returns, investors of all kinds are converging into dividend-paying stocks. Such a move...
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The great stock market dividend convergence, part I

While it has always been common for “pre-retirement” investors to buy dividend-paying stocks to balance cash flow with growth, two new...
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The Monte Carlo retirement prediction

  • Monte Carlo simulation
  • July 5, 2011
Spend enough time talking to financial planners and sooner or later you’ll hear about “Monte Carlo simulation.” As used in...
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Social Security - sooner or later?

A big-name money expert, known for her exuberant presentation style, recently extolled the virtue of collecting social security later rather than...
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Cash is trash - an alternative to money market funds

  • Floating-rate Loans
  • May 29, 2011
In the current economic environment investing in a money market fund is like going over Niagara Falls in a barrel: No matter how much protection...
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Beating the market with commodities - energy

  • Energy & commodity Investing
  • May 25, 2011
Over the past six months one of the few sectors to handily beat the broad stock marketiscommodities. In fact, in the face of such exceptional...
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Surviving a wild stock market, Permanent Portfolio, permanent returns?

  • Conservative Investing
  • May 25, 2011
An unfortunate reality of investing is that risk and return go together. It’s difficult to get a good return without a fair amount of risk;...
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Beating the market with commodities - gold

GOLD. Only a few days ago Utah became the first state to legalize the precious metal, along with silver, as a form of currency. Almost 10 other...
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The morbid reverse mortgage bet

Listen to the sales pitch and you’d think that a reverse mortgage is the “be all” and “end all” to eternal retirement...
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