Investment Strategy
This article provides a brief overview about investing in bonds and then dives into some potential trouble areas in the bond market. I read thousands of emails from my readers, and one of the key themes I see is that people are concerned about the next stock market crash, and perhaps rightly so. By many measures we have high stock valuations in … [Read more...]
The core of my investing approach has been focusing on ETFs and blue chip stocks for fifteen years now, which I then augment with some trading in other asset classes around the edges. More specifically, I complement my blue chip stocks with international ETFs, cash/bonds, precious metals, a few small stocks, and occasional option trades. For … [Read more...]
Closed-end funds (CEFs) are a relatively under-followed type of investment that often provide high income yields. They represent a rather small and inefficient market, which allows patient investors to pick up deeply undervalued assets during periods of weakness. However, because closed-end funds are generally actively-managed portfolios with … [Read more...]
Readers can now buy the 2019 Global Opportunities Investment Report: This report looks at 30 international markets, and compares their growth, debt, valuations, stability, and currency strength to give investors insight on where to allocate their money globally. 6 out of 30 countries scored a "strong" rating overall, meaning that they … [Read more...]
A large portion of the world's most successful and famous investors have been value investors, meaning that they buy cheap out-of-favor companies (aka "value stocks") and prosper as those companies continue to perform fundamentally well against market consensus. For this to work, either the company remains cheap and goes on to spend money on … [Read more...]