Once you know your investment risk profile, how do you gauge the risk of individual securities in your portfolio or your portfolio as a whole? I tend to weigh the risk on my portfolio as a whole...
With all the talk about the financial crisis, market melt-downs, Dow/S&P crashing, et. al., the one metric that really matters to each of us individually is the performance of our personal...
Earlier in the month we looked at reasons why to sell a dividend stock when it cuts its dividend. But what should you do if a company opts to just leave its dividend flat? This is happening more...
Today there is talk that GM and Chrysler may fail, and that the government may bail out one merged or two unmerged companies. I am not even sure that GM and Ford are worth saving and I am not sure...
Everyone thought GE was the ultimate secure stock. But recent events have shown that the company has taken a severe hit from the financial meltdown, one that could severely impair it going forward.
A recent article on The Motley Fool pointed out that now is the time that Baron Rothschild was referring to when he said, "Buy when blood is in the streets." It listed the following 5 ways to help...
The big news this week has been Bank of America's (BAC) dividend cut and the continued financial meltdown. Murmurings on the street are that GE could join BAC and cut its dividend, which is...
When investors purchase their initial position in a stock, it is usually after their most rigorous research. Once a stock is in their portfolio, some investors relax on the research for subsequent...
For your weekend reading pleasure, the articles listed below contain some of the best dividend and value investing insights found on the web. They were written by various members of the Dividend...
There have always been companies that stand head-and-shoulders above their peers and the competition. They are loved by their shareholders, hated by the competition and known by all. Who are these...
At some point in the future will we look back on our actions today and refer to them as our greatest missed opportunity? By most measures, many blue-chip stocks are trading at a historical...
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