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The best sectors to focus your attention on now. The highest-rated stocks worth adding to your watch list. Why high-volatility ahead of elections could create a great buy opportunity. For further details see: If Stocks Tumble On Election Worries, Here Are The Top Stocks ...

In 2015, I started publishing quarterly updates regarding my dividend growth portfolio. I believe that someone who writes about financial assets should share his main holdings with his readers. In this article, I will share my portfolio, changes in the past 3 months and stocks tha...

Energy holdings have been negatively impacted by the pandemic. A zero-interest-rate environment might persist until at least 2023. Preferred securities should continue to perform well during the low-interest-rate environment. For further details see: HPI: Resilient So Fa...

John's retirement accounts generated a total of $945.47 of dividend income for August 2020 vs. $1,113.32 of dividend income for August 2019. John's Traditional IRA had a balance of $249,108.92 as of August 31, 2020, vs. $266,344.62 on August 31, 2019. The estimated annualized YOC...

BUI is showing positive performance YTD, which is a bit surprising. The fund has a solid long-term track record, though the current valuation isn't a screaming deal either. BUI fits an investor that wants CEF exposure to utilities/infrastructure, without leverage. For furthe...

This is a Core Income Portfolio holding that hasn't performed well given it has REIT equity exposure. The only equity exposure we hold in the Core Portfolio is in Nuveen Real Asset Income & Growth (JRI). The fund is a mix of REITs, bonds and preferreds. Two key factors are dri...

This article series shows every month a dashboard with aggregate industry metrics in utilities. Most of the companies used to calculate these metrics are holdings of the Utilities Select Sector SPDR ETF ( XLU ). Therefore, this is also a top-down survey of XLU. Shortcut If you are used t...

Introduction The Dividend Champions list is a monthly compilation of companies which have consistently increased their annual dividend payouts, and the latest edition may be found here . However, since this list is only produced once per month, the data in it can quickly get out of date. Fu...

The growth vs value debate is usually framed as an either or proposition, you are either a growth investor or a value investor. The young are usually painted as sheep skipping aimlessly toward the slaughter of high priced hyper growth companies and the old as dinosaurs missing out on all the r...

I have been specializing myself in the insider topic with months of empirical research to understand the trades and their informativeness. Insiders are the high managers, directors and majority shareholders of a firm and know their company better than anyone else as they are close to the s...