ETF Battles: DVY vs. DGRW, Who Wins?
This is an excerpt from ETF Battles on ETFguide TV between DVY vs. DGRW – two stock dividend ETFs. Who wins the battle? More investors…
Category: Dividend Income
Retirement Pro: Think Cash Flow, Not Rate of Return
This is an excerpt from the video titled Think Cash Flow, NOT Rate of Return with Lynn Dolan at ETFguide and Mark Mappa, CFP and…
5 Building Blocks for Your Investment Portfolio
The difference between well-built and poorly designed buildings can be strikingly drastic. Take for example, I.M. Pei, the Chinese-American architect, who is a legend in…
4 Moments When “Stay the Course” is the Wrong Investment Advice
The worst January start for U.S. stocks since 2009 should get your attention. If you’ve been hiding underneath a rock or hibernating in a cave-like dwelling, it’s…
What’s Your Income Plan?
For just the fourth time in 50 years, the S&P 500’s (NYSEARCA:IVV) dividend yield was briefly more versus 10-year U.S. Treasuries (ChicagoOptions:^TNX). It’s another testament…
How to Improve Your Investment Performance by Playing Defense
“The best defense is a good offense.” That axiom has been applied in a broad array of fields including politics, sports, and the military. The…
Bull Market in Borrowing: Corporate Debt Skyrockets to $9.6 Trillion
How healthy are corporate balance sheets? It depends who you ask. One news outlet said that U.S. firms are hoarding a record $1.6 trillion in…
How to Beat the Low Yield Cycle
How would you like an 11% cut to your paycheck? That’s exactly what’s happened to income investors who own long-term Treasuries (ChicagoOptions:^TYX). At the beginning of the…
Stock Prices Are Cheap! Valuation Geeks Get it Wrong Again
“Stocks are cheap by historical standards” is the latest fiction being promoted by valuation geeks. Is it true? Meb Faber, proprietor of the Cambria Global Value…
3 Steps to Beating the Retirement Income Shortage
One definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over while expecting a different result. This is an apt description of retirement income…
Beating the Dividend Income Drought
Will dividend yields test 1999 lows? That was the title of my post from a few weeks ago in which I explained to readers how…
3 Big Shortcomings of Target Date Funds
Around 41% of all 401(k) savers have are using target-date mutual funds (TDFs) and the numbers keep rising. Experts in the financial services industry applaud…
Smart Beta Investing: New Paradigm or Word Trick
Is so-called smart beta investing a new and improved way to invest or just another one of Wall Street’s fancy sales pitches? Smart beta strategies (formerly known…
How Much Money is Enough for a Comfortable Retirement?
In 2011, the oldest members of the Baby Boom generation reached retirement age and over the next 15 years, around 8,000 Boomers per day will…
Will Dividend Yields Test ’99 Lows?
The past six years have been brutal for dividend and income investors. Zero percent interest rates have depressed bond yields (NYSEARCA:BOND) and with major stock…
Valuation Models Say Stock Market Losses Ahead
Overpaying for anything is a bad idea. But it’s an especially bad thing when it comes to investing in the stock market. James Montier at…
Are Corporate Earnings Being Gamed?
Are corporate earnings really as great as the executives at the helm and Wall Street want us to believe? Over 70% of S&P 500 (^GSPC)…
Are Covered Call Funds a Smart Income Play?
What’s better? A covered call options strategy executed by the individual investor or a covered call ETF or fund that proposes to do the heavy…