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San Jose Personal Finance
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
dividends
July 12, 2011
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
dividends
July 9, 2011
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?
Social Security
June 16, 2011
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 investing
May 24, 2011
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
reverse mortgage
May 18, 2011
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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