Analysis Topic: Market Oracle's Stocks Portfolio
The analysis published under this topic are as follows.
Monday, June 15, 2020
Black Lives Matter Protests to Trigger US and UK 2nd Coronavirus Wave / Portfolio / Pandemic
By: Nadeem_Walayat
The protesting and rioting of the past week that has shown little signs of social distancing coupled with relaxation of lockdown's is likely to trigger a second wave of sorts that a few weeks down the road could result in a rising death tolls for both the US and UK.
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Saturday, March 21, 2020
Your Investment Portfolio for the Next Decade—Fix It with the “Anti-Stock” / Portfolio / Investing 2020
By: Jared_Dillian
For months—years—I’ve been extolling the virtues of portfolios that are primarily comprised of bonds. Especially in retirement.
Bonds provide necessary diversification. They may end up reducing returns, but you are more than compensated by the reduction in risk.
A few months ago, people were giving me a lot of grief about this. I heard all about how irresponsible it was to promote bonds in a low interest rate environment. Then interest rates went even lower, as stocks went down a lot.
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Tuesday, September 24, 2019
The 60/40 Stocks Portfolio Is Riskier Than Ever / Portfolio / Investing 2019
By: John_Mauldin
As investors we have to make assumptions about the future. We know they will likely prove wrong, but something has to guide our asset allocation decisions.Many long-term investors assume stocks will give them 6–8% real annual returns if they simply buy and hold long enough.
Pension fund trustees hire consultants to reassure them of this “fact,” along with similar interest rate and bond forecasts, and then make investment and benefit decisions.
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Thursday, April 04, 2019
Is 35/55/3/3/4 the Ultimate Investment Portfolio Today? / Portfolio / Investing 2019
By: Jared_Dillian
Lot of strong feelings on gold.
Some people think it has no utility. Other people have pretty reasoned arguments about how gold maintains purchasing power across the centuries.
It was in a bubble eight years ago that sucked a lot of people in. There were some sketchball commercials for gold on Fox News. The people who missed the bubble spent the next eight years mocking the people who got sucked into it.
(I got sucked into it.)
Friday, August 04, 2017
Every Investor Is One Misstep Away From Losing Everything—And It Has Nothing To Do With Crashes / Portfolio / Financial Markets 2017
By: John_Mauldin
BY OLIVIER GARRET : The US has become a very unfriendly place for successful people.
Not just for the uber wealthy, but entrepreneurs, investors, and the family next door. Anyone with even a modest net worth is a potential target.
Our country has just 5% of the world’s population yet is home to 80% of its lawyers. The US spends 2.2% of its GDP on legal costs. That is an eight-fold jump per capita (inflation adjusted) since the 1950s.
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Tuesday, October 06, 2015
Designing a Dividend Growth Portfolio for a Specific Retirement Yield Objective / Portfolio / Pensions & Retirement
By: Charles_Carnevale
Managing an investment portfolio is a very personal matter. Consequently, the most important consideration is to design a portfolio that meets your own unique goals, objectives and risk tolerances. Everyone is different, and consequently, every investment portfolio can and should be appropriately different as well. Stated more straightforwardly, I do not believe in cookie-cutter or one-size-fits-all approaches to portfolio design.
In the same vein, I believe that investment portfolios, especially retirement investment portfolios, should be designed and constructed to meet the specific needs of the individual it is built for. In some cases the objective might be current income and safety. In other cases the objective might be the necessity to earn the highest possible rate of return. Importantly, the most appropriate objective for each individual will often be driven by factors that are external to the portfolio itself.
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Tuesday, October 06, 2015
Target Date Funds As Aid In Retirement Investment Portfolio Design / Portfolio / Pensions & Retirement
By: Richard_Shaw
Investors in or near retirement should be aware of portfolio design leading fund sponsors suggest as appropriate- Leading target date funds appear to generally have less severe worst drawdowns than a US 60/40 balanced fund
- The funds have slightly higher yields than a US 60/40 balanced fund
- Target date funds have underperformed a US 60/40 balanced fund in part due to a cash reserve component and non-US stocks
- Non-US stocks drag on historical performance could become future boost to performance.
Tuesday, August 12, 2014
Trip through TSA—When Stock Diversification Gets out of Hand / Portfolio / Learning to Invest
By: Don_Miller
There are only a handful of ways to protect your investment portfolio, and proper diversification is chief among them. No matter how well you do your due diligence on a single investment or how disciplined you are at executing trades, if your portfolio looks like a bridge party among pals who’ve known each other just a tad too long you’re in trouble.
Thursday, July 10, 2014
Rock Concerts, and How to Find On-Sale Stocks to Fuel a Rock-Star Retirement / Portfolio / Investing 2014
By: Don_Miller
Have you ever wondered what really happens behind the scenes at a rock concert? My good friend Stew is a top audio engineer—you know, the guy who wears thousand-dollar headphones and stands below the stage manning dials at rock concerts the world over. I shadowed him backstage a handful of times, and the scene was not what I thought it would be. Sure, they all dressed the rocker part, but I was blown away by everyone’s professionalism.
Friday, July 04, 2014
What to Own as the U.S. Dollar Dies / Portfolio / Investing 2014
By: DailyWealth
Dr. Steve Sjuggerud writes: So... if the dollar "dies"... what do you do with your money?
In yesterday's DailyWealth, we looked at "The Coming Death of the Dollar." But we didn't cover what you should do with your money to protect yourself.
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Thursday, October 31, 2013
The "Painful" Truth About Portfolio Diversification / Portfolio / Learning to Invest
By: Money_Morning
Robert Hsu writes: Portfolio diversification is one of the most widely advocated concepts in investing. Almost all financial planners recommend it.
But it's also one of the most misunderstood concepts.
Traditional diversification isn't a real-world way to create big wealth.
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Thursday, May 30, 2013
How to Protect Your Stock Market Portfolio Profits From a Crash / Portfolio / Financial Crash
By: Money_Morning
Tim Melvin writes: Thanks to billions of dollars in quantitative easing from the U.S. Federal Reserve, fears over a looming stock market crash have been put on hold lately.
The Standard & Poor's 500 Index is up 16% this year. The market's outstanding performance has shrugged off weak earnings reports, slowing growth in China, and continued weakness in Europe.
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Friday, March 08, 2013
How to Safely Hedge Your Stocks Portfolio in Uncertain Times / Portfolio / Learning to Invest
By: Investment_U
David Eller writes: What a year 2013 has been. The S&P is up 6% and we’re 3% away from all-time highs. The Dow Jones broke through 14,000…
Can things get better from here? Can they even stay this good? Nobody knows where the markets will go, but there are ways to protect yourself and sleep easy at night.
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Sunday, January 27, 2013
The Biggest Risk – And Greatest Reward – Facing Your Portfolio Today / Portfolio / Investing 2013
By: Investment_U
Alexander Green writes: Virtually every American knows Uncle Sam is carrying a gargantuan debt and that we face sharply higher deficits in the future. What you may not know is how bad the situation really is, how much worse it will soon become, how widespread the problem around the world, and how little will be done about it anytime soon.
Thursday, January 24, 2013
Attractively Valued Blue-Chip Dividend Stocks For Retirement Portfolios / Portfolio / Dividends
By: Charles_Carnevale
In a previous article found here I postulated that the S&P 500 was currently fairly valued. In this article, I review a specific hand-selected list of Dividend Champions that I believe are reasonably priced and therefore capable of generating above-average returns at below-average risk. In today’s low interest rate environment, I believe that high-quality blue-chip dividend growth stocks represent an attractive asset class that can provide a retirement portfolio with a growing income stream.
Saturday, November 03, 2012
The Role of Risk in Portfolio Investment Asset Allocation / Portfolio / Risk Analysis
By: John_Mauldin
Diversification of your investments is the only real free lunch, or so we are told. But how do we go about deciding what to diversify into? In this week’s short Outside the Box, my friend Jason Hsu of Research Affiliates argues that the real basis for diversification should be risk. And given that risk seems to be rising everywhere we look, thinking about how to deal with risk in our portfolios makes a great deal of sense.
I’m also including in today’s OTB a complementary piece by good friend Charles Gave of GaveKal. This is a short piece that is long on common sense and that winds up with a straightforward list of places where we can invest to minimize risk.
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Tuesday, June 26, 2012
Beat Ben Bernanke's Zero Rates with These Juicy Double-Digit Yields / Portfolio / Investing 2012
By: Money_Morning
Martin Hutchinson writes:
With the economy beginning to stall, Ben Bernanke's war on the nation's savers rolls on.
From his promise to keep the Fed funds rate near zero through late 2014 to his efforts to push ten-year note yields even lower, the Fed Chairman is a saver's worst nightmare.
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Friday, May 11, 2012
Five Consumer Staple Stocks For A Hearty Investment Portfolio With Yield / Portfolio / Sector Analysis
By: Fast_Graphs
The old adage that people got to eat apply to the five consumer staple companies covered in this report. From the farm to the table these companies provide sustenance to a hungry world. Therefore, we believe that conservative investors that are craving the opportunity for growth and income might want to look closer at these five consumer staples. Each appears to be reasonably priced, and the group provides various combinations of growth and yield.
Monday, April 30, 2012
How to Build a Small Fortune with Dividend Reinvestment Plans / Portfolio / Dividends
By: Money_Morning
Larry D. Spears writes:
The real secret to long-term investing success is income - and with stocks, that means dividends.
Numerous studies, both academic and financial, have found dividends accounted for more than 60% of total U.S. stock market returns since 1870.
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Tuesday, January 17, 2012
The Battle for the UK Current Bank Account Switcher / Portfolio / UK Banking
By: MoneyFacts
Moneyfacts research has shown that there has been an increasing amount of switcher incentives introduced in the last few weeks.
High street lenders including Halifax, HSBC and Santander have all launched deals to attract new customers, offering a cash payment or interest-free overdrafts.
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