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7 High-Yield Monthly Income Ideas For Election Season

With the significantly negative market performance that surrounded our last election, investors are acutely aware of a potential increase in market volatility as the days pass by. Though the factors that affected our markets in 2008 are significantly less of a concern this time around, safer, well diversified investments are, in my opinion, becoming very attractive as this year’s election approaches.

In a search for safety and diversity, many closed-end funds (CEF) can offer both; as well as a consistent income ...

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Finding Value in a 13.92% YTD-Return Industry: 5 Undervalued REITs

With a 13.92% year-to-date (YTD) return, versus the S&P’s 7.72% YTD return, the real estate investment trust (REIT) industry has significantly beaten the overall markets in recent months.

Even the well-performing NASDAQ, with its 12.75% TYD return, trails the REIT industry by over 1%, YTD.

REITs offer real estate investment diversity to investors in lieu of owning physical real estate. This along with their, at times, hefty dividends have helped ...

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Guest Post: Keeping Track of Your Investments

As any investor will no doubt be aware, it is extremely important to keep track of your investments. Thankfully, there are a number of ways in which investors are able to do this. If you are keen to make the most of the investments which you have, then here are a few ways in which you might choose to keep track of them.

One of the best ways to keep track of the investments which you have is via ...

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How To Profit From A Stock Market Crash: Parts I Through IV

Some are calling the rally we have seen since the start of 2012 a bear trap, an insignificant bounce that will soon lose momentum and drive our markets down further. Extreme skeptics are even predicting that we will see a stock market crash in 2012 similar to that of 1929. Do I believe it? Not really, but I’m prepared for the worst, and you should be too.

The success of great investors generally isn’t due to an ability to predict market ...

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59 High-Yielding Equities With Monthly Distributions, Parts 1 through 7

2011 has proven to be a year of education for many, myself included. Aside from protecting from loss of capital, hedging against the risk exposure associated with equities investments has been the most important lesson I have (re)learned from the volatility our markets faced in 2011.

One of my favorite hedging strategies is the tried and true method of investing in dividend-yielding stocks and ETFs. Dividend yielding stocks and ETFs, with their consistent quarterly or sometimes monthly dividend payouts, can add ...

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10 High-Yielding Dividend Stocks And 10 Growth Stocks For Your 2012 Portfolio

If you haven’t read What Works on Wall Street: A Guide to the Best-Performing Investment Strategies of All Time by James P. O’Shaughnessy, you should. Using 45 years of S&P Compustat market data and a systematic, fundamental approach, O’Shaughnessy researched the performance of many different investment strategies and concluded that some produced greater returns than the S&P 500 while others produced less.

This type of analysis may sound anything but groundbreaking in our current, digital trading universe but very few studies, ...

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