Strategies

Dogs of the Dow is an investment strategy that targets the 10 top-yielding stocks in the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) for investment each year. Investors following this strategy should reap the benefits of higher yields and above-average stock-price gains.

Stock buybacks are a pretty common mechanism nowadays to provide value to shareholders so it is important to familiarize yourself with the terminology and understand the impact it may potentially have on your investments - especially if you are a dividend investor.

While the economy is a vastly complex and difficult thing to grasp, you can simplify the many moving parts by boiling it down to three basic elements, or touch points, which give you a brief understanding of the health and general direction of where and how things are going.

Investing in blue-chip stocks that offer capital protection and steady dividends in volatile times looks like a smart option. In view of these factors, we have narrowed our search to the following stocks based on a good Zacks Rank and other relevant metrics.

Berkshire Hathaway's investment portfolio has quite a following as many consider it as the Holy Grail in investing. Part of the interest can be attributed to curiosity over what Berkshire Hathaway’s Warren Buffett is doing with the stocks in the portfolio and the fact that there are countless investors trying to mimic Buffett’s actions in their own portfolio in an attempt to realize superior returns. This article...provides an analysis of the changes made to Berkshire Hathaway's 13F stock portfolio during Q4 2018.

Ray Dalio’s All Weather Portfolio is a diversified asset mix designed to weather through any financial climate be it a bull market, bear market, recession, or whatever and, based on its historical performance thus far, it holds up to the name.

Wouldn’t it be nice to not have to worry about investment decisions? The late Harry Browne, libertarian and investment adviser, thought so and proposed what he termed the Permanent Portfolio.

Consider a bear market as a golden opportunity to do some house cleaning and welcome some new stocks that had been evading your portfolio due to high prices.

The Dogs of the Dow strategy is one where investors select the ten stocks that have the highest dividend yield from the stocks in the Dow Jones Industrial Average Index (DJIA) after the close of business on the last trading day of the year. Once the ten stocks are determined, an investor invests an equal dollar amount in each of the ten stocks and holds them for the entire next year. The popularity of the strategy is its singular focus on dividend yield.

When a market hiccup grows into a major meltdown, new investment opportunities always become abundant. Below is a list of 10 things to think about doing - or to avoid doing - during corrections of any magnitude: