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Financial Advisor July 2006 Marla Brill |
Options For Generating Income Judging from a slew of recent offerings, Wall Street is betting that a high-yielding twist on an old fund idea will attract investors looking for higher interest rates who are wary of fluctuating bond prices. |
Financial Planning December 1, 2007 Douglas R. Bond |
In Search of Yield A noted fund manager explains a strategy for trading closed-end funds. |
BusinessWeek April 16, 2007 Aaron Pressman |
Funds For The Dividend Junkie Put your money in one of the new, so-called dividend capture funds, and you get the equivalent of six dividends a year. |
Financial Planning March 1, 2010 Donald Jay Korn |
Digging for Dividends According to Morningstar, there are 56 mutual funds with the word "dividend" in their name, plus another 33 dividend ETFs. |
The Motley Fool March 29, 2011 Michael Johnston |
Dividend ETF Investing: Mid-Cap Options These dividend paying ETFs are worth a look. |
Financial Advisor January 2008 Marla Brill |
Playing Both Sides Convertible bonds offer a shot at a decent chunk of the stock market's upside while muting some of its downside risk. |
The Motley Fool February 23, 2010 Dan Caplinger |
Don't Let These High Yields Fool You Some payouts are too good to be true. Sometimes, a high-yielding investment might seem like the best answer to your financial problems. Unfortunately, closed-end funds with high yields are much riskier than you think. |
The Motley Fool August 30, 2010 Dan Caplinger |
Forget Treasuries. Buy Convertibles Instead. Convertible securities combine attractive elements of bonds and stocks. Are they for you? |
The Motley Fool August 9, 2004 Mathew Emmert |
Diversifying Your Dividends Exchange-traded funds (ETFs), and closed-end mutual funds (CEFs) offer some of the best solutions for most income investors. |
BusinessWeek February 18, 2010 Lewis Braham |
In Search of Dividends Investors are hungry for quality companies that pay steady dividends. |
The Motley Fool July 21, 2008 Dan Caplinger |
Will Dividend Stocks Survive? Adding dividend-paying stocks to your portfolio can help you make millions in the long run. Lately, though, many investors have seen much bigger losses on their dividend stocks than they've gotten back in their quarterly checks. |
BusinessWeek July 4, 2005 Aaron Pressman |
Option Income Funds: Watch Out Option income funds, which hold stocks and sell call options against them, offer payouts that are generous in these low-yield times, but the risks are great. |
The Motley Fool February 25, 2010 Dan Caplinger |
Watch Out for This Wealth-Killer You can't afford to pay two sets of managers. One thing you have to do with ETFs is to look at their costs. |
The Motley Fool November 23, 2009 Dan Caplinger |
Are These Dividends Too Good to Be True? Lots of high-yielding stocks won't last. Look for history and earnings. |
Financial Advisor January 2011 Jeff Schlegel |
Paying Dividends The malaise in fixed-income yields is proving to be the perfect excuse for income investors to look at dividend strategies. |
Financial Advisor November 2010 Virginia Munger Kahn |
Considering Convertibles Historically, convertible bonds have done well in sideways, volatile markets such as those of the late 1970s and early 1980s. |
The Motley Fool May 8, 2009 Dan Caplinger |
Lights Out for Dividend ETFs? Funds fell into the dividend trap, but that doesn't mean the idea is bad. |
The Motley Fool November 20, 2008 Dan Caplinger |
Invest at a Double Discount Closed-end funds offer amazing opportunities right now. |
Financial Advisor May 2012 Alan Lavine |
A Few Bargains Be selective when buying closed-end stock funds. |
The Motley Fool October 24, 2005 Mathew Emmert |
Dividends Go Mainstream Soaring demand among dividend-based exchange-traded funds shows that the yield is once again in vogue. |
Financial Planning February 1, 2011 Donald Jay Korn |
Back to Normal Financial planners might not have to master the minutiae of convertibles securities. But they should know if a convertibles fund is more likely to act like stocks or like bonds. |
Financial Planning October 1, 2010 Geoff Considine |
Yield vs. Risk New rules for income investing not only help investors to avoid these extremes, but also show the way to create income portfolios that provide the most yield available for a given level of risk. |
The Motley Fool January 5, 2008 Adam J. Wiederman |
Bear Market Buys How to find the best investments when the market is tough. |
The Motley Fool February 18, 2009 Dan Caplinger |
An Investment for All Markets Wouldn't you like to find some way to have the protection that bonds have provided throughout the bear market while still retaining some of the upside of stocks? Convertible securities offer the best of both worlds. |
The Motley Fool December 8, 2006 Zoe Van Schyndel |
Delving Into Dividend ETFs Dividend ETFs have the same advantages over traditional mutual funds as regular ETFs, including low fees and the ability to buy and sell during the day. |
The Motley Fool October 24, 2007 Selena Maranjian |
Meet the Dividend Achievers If you're looking for dividend-paying stocks, you need to know the Mergent Dividend Achievers. |
The Motley Fool April 29, 2010 Jordan DiPietro |
These Dividends Are Outrageous There are safer, more prudent ways to generate income than closed-end funds. |
Registered Rep. June 1, 2006 Stan Luxenberg |
The Discount Mystery When exchange-traded funds appeared in the 1990s, some observers predicted that the new vehicles would doom their older cousins, closed-end funds. But lately those boring old closed-end funds have been attracting renewed attention. |
Financial Advisor March 2004 Marla Brill |
Filling The Tax-Favored Dividend Void Investors seem to covet higher dividends and lower taxes. Forty-three percent of respondents to a recent survey of 600 individuals conducted by American Century Investments said they are more likely to buy stocks that pay dividends qualifying for the new tax rate. |
National Real Estate Investor September 1, 2007 |
Multifamily Stocks: Troubled Times Ahead? Before the recent turmoil on Wall Street, share prices of the publicly traded multifamily companies tracked by the NAHB for its Multifamily Stock Index performed incredibly well. That long run of success, however, might be coming to an end. |
Financial Planning June 1, 2006 Donald Jay Korn |
Pay Pals Dividend-paying stocks are likely to post solid returns, but planners may have to choose between leaders and leapers. |
Financial Advisor March 2011 Marla Brill |
Smoothing The Ride Larry Keele manages this Vanguard convertible fund using a conservative strategy that usually leads to out-performance in down-to-sideways stock markets. |
The Motley Fool June 18, 2009 Dan Caplinger |
3 Overpriced Investments You Shouldn't Buy In this market, you shouldn't pay a premium for anything, and you don't have to. |
The Motley Fool January 16, 2010 Alex Dumortier |
A Wealth-Building Strategy for the Next 10 Years This straightforward strategy will help you rebound from the past 10 years. |
Financial Advisor April 2009 Marla Brill |
Tapping ETFs Dividend-rich ETFs may boost returns when the market is treading water. |
The Motley Fool August 16, 2004 Mathew Emmert |
Closing In on Dividends Closed-end mutual funds can supplement your dividend-paying stock portfolio. |
The Motley Fool August 18, 2009 Dan Caplinger |
The Easy Way to Find Big Dividends Choosing a solid dividend ETF can help you diversify your portfolio while giving you the benefits that dividend-payers offer. |
The Motley Fool August 2, 2004 Mathew Emmert |
Dividend Funds Missing Dividends When you boil down the names, the strategies, and the yields, you really just end up with some fairly average growth funds. |
Financial Planning March 1, 2008 Jason Brady |
A Race for Income Most investors who are searching for income from their investments look at one factor: yield. Is this the right approach? |
The Motley Fool February 11, 2010 Dan Caplinger |
A Better Way to Buy Buffett? Berkshire Hathaway's closed-end fund now comes with a discount, but is it a good deal? |
Registered Rep. September 1, 2005 Stan Luxenberg |
Convertible Opportunities With prices down now, this could be an opportune moment to build a long-term position in convertibles. Despite the recent woes, convertibles have produced an impressive long-term record. |
The Motley Fool May 11, 2009 Dan Caplinger |
How to Be Bullish Without Being Stupid One type of investment can give you a chance to earn profits if the market continues going up, but without the full exposure to stock losses if the economy turns south once more. |
The Motley Fool November 16, 2006 Selena Maranjian |
The Best ETF for 2007: iShares Dow Jones Select Dividend Wondering what exactly is in the iShares Dow Jones Select Dividend Index? Wonder no more. It invests in the 100 (or so) highest-yielding companies in the Dow Jones U.S. Total Market Index. |
Investment Advisor September 2005 Eric Uhlfelder |
Primed for Income An old standby -- the closed-end fund -- is showing new life, finding a receptive audience among the income needy. |
Financial Advisor November 2008 Alan Lavine |
In The Basement Like many other securities, closed-end preferred stock funds have been hit hard by the national financial crisis. |
The Motley Fool January 22, 2010 Dan Caplinger |
Where'd All the Dividends Go? For those looking for ways to generate income from their stock portfolios, rising share prices have had a downside as well. Yields are dropping. What should you do? |
The Motley Fool August 19, 2011 Dan Caplinger |
It's Time to Buy These Discount Investments Closed-end funds offer a double discount. |
Real Estate Portfolio Special Issue 2005 Todd A. Canter |
Real Estate Diversification on a Global Scale The dramatic growth of REITs around the globe has several implications for the real estate industry and for investors. For the industry, it is leading to improved liquidity and transparency. For investors, it creates more opportunities to access an attractive investment vehicle while mitigating many of the risks associated with this asset class. |
Investment Advisor February 2009 |
A New Benchmark for Advisors With many advisors using an asset allocation strategy, the S&P 500 is no longer a great benchmark against which to set your pace. Take a look at these new benchmarks. |
The Motley Fool January 29, 2007 Dan Caplinger |
Go Global With Closed-End Funds Discounts make these alternatives to ETFs attractive, but beware of high expenses. |