By Gary Gordon: This is the 10th piece in our Positioning for 2012 series. Readers can find the entire Positioning For 2012 series here . Gary A. Gordon, MS, CFP® is the president of Pacific Park Financial , Inc., a Registered Investment Adviser with the SEC. He has more than 22 years of experience as [...]
By Eric Parnell: This is the 8th piece in our Positioning for 2012 series. Readers can find the entire Positioning For 2012 series here . Eric Parnell is the Founder & Director of Gerring Wealth Management, a Registered Investment Advisor based in Chester County, Pennsylvania and serving clients nationwide. Eric founded Gerring Wealth Management in [...]
With the exception of the global fast food industry leaders – McDonald’s MCD and Yum! Brands YUM – restaurant stocks haven’t been in favor over the past year. The economy hasn’t been kind to the market laggards – Burger King was bought out for $4 bi… This article was written by InvestorGuide.com.
By Paul Nouri: This is the seventh article in our Positioning for 2012 series. Readers can find the entire Positioning For 2012 series here . Paul Nouri has been managing Noble Equity Fund, LP, a healthcare-focused hedge fund, since January of 2008. In addition, he manages Noble Advisors, LLC, a Registered Investment Advisor. Prior to [...]
By Briar: The payment of dividends is viewed by many as a sign of financial strength. What is little discussed is the ways in which a sensible idea can be distorted by behavioral heuristics. In this article I shall evaluate dividends from the perspective of heuristics as the term is used by Gerd Gigerenzer, on [...]
By Hinds Howard: The year 2011 appears to have been the year of the aristocrats. Our country’s aristocrats, the 1% top earning Americans, have garnered lots of negative press in the second half of the year. And this month, I am reading in several corners of the internet about how well so-called “dividend aristocrats” are [...]
Shares of Sears Holdings (SHLD: Charts, News, Offers) declined by -12.47 or -27.20 percent to close at $33.38 per share on Tuesday after the company reported a steep decline in holiday sales compared to last year, forcing the company to close from 1… This article was written by InvestorGuide.com.
By Benjamin Shepherd: Since the European Union’s (EU) founding in the early 1990s, the currency union has been criticized for being just that: A monetary union that attempts to embrace fragmented fiscal interests and concerns. And while this monetary union might have worked initially with its 12 core member states, there are now 23 countries [...]
author name submits: Now that 2012 is right around the corner, expect to see a bunch of articles popping up touting predictions for the coming year. Call me skeptical, but I tend to place little faith in these articles claiming to tell you exactly where the Dow Jones (DJI) or S&P 500 (SPY) will end [...]
By Retracement: “The night is always darkest just before the dawn.” Yes, it’s a Spanish proverb and now a famous quote from a 2008 movie, but also something Steven L. Newman, President and CEO of Transocean Ltd (RIG), might have thought to himself on several occasions after the April 20, 2010, explosion of the Deepwater [...]