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Want to Become a Successful Investor? Focus on the Passive Income Your Portfolio Generates Each Year
If there was one piece of advice I could give to new investors, it would be to take the simple route and focus on one thing and one thing only: Growing the amount of cash income they generate each year from their investments in stocks, bonds, mutual funds, real estate, private businesses, and other assets, making sure not to take foolish risks or become too concentrated in a single area.
Why? For most households, indeed the typical investor, what counts is how much money is sitting in the bank. If you create a collection of securities that throw off ever-increasing sums of cash for you to spend, reinvest, give to charity, or save, your standard of living should rise. That, after all, is what investing is really about in the end. To learn more, read the new article Measure Your Investing Success By Your Annual Passive Income …
Want to Become a Successful Investor? Focus on the Passive Income Your Portfolio Generates Each Year originally appeared on About.com Investing for Beginners on Monday, April 30th, 2012 at 03:00:10.
Congressional Threat to Every Investor, Business Owner and Citizen
Congressional Threat to Every Investor, Business Owner and Citizen
May 21, 2012
This is an open letter in response to legislation recently passed in the US House of Representatives. The behavior of Representative Harold Rogers, Chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, has made the front page of The New York Times, describing the $ 17,000 drip pan for Black Hawk helicopters that is earmarked for his district in Kentucky.
The US House of Representatives, that includes his leadership, has passed Bill H.R. 5326. This legislation decimates the statistical agencies that support the entire fabric of business investment, policy-making, and decision-making in the United States.
This action speaks volumes concerning the failure in Congressional accountability to review this legislation thoroughly and the abysmal behavior of Congressional leadership to permit it to pass. This threatens the economic recovery and long-term growth trend of the United States.
Below is a copy of a letter sent to the membership of the National Association for Business Economics (NABE). It recounts the important elements of the legislation that must be opposed. It also gives the appropriate number and reference in the US Senate version. It contains sample text which citizens can use to send letters, emails or telephone calls when it comes to lobbying on their behalf.
A Powerhouse Investor Is Targeting this Controversial Stock
What on Earth is Steven A. Cohen thinking? He's authorized traders at his investment firm, SAC Capital, to quickly build a large position in Accretive Health (NYSE: AH). Roughly a week ago, SAC announced that it had already bought so many shares that it now owns 5% of the company. Is Cohen crazy? After all, Accretive has seen its shares plunge after a fairly nasty lawsuit was filed by Minnesota's Attorney General.
Make no mistake, Cohen is no fool. He's amassed a fortune exceeding $ 8 billion according to Forbes magazine, built largely on contrarian investment approaches. After looking into Accretive Health's current legal woes, I think Cohen is on to something here. If he's wrong, the stock may have 20% or 30% downside from here. But if he's right, this stock could rise 50% or more. Let me explain…
Hospital profit pressures vs. patients' rights
The economic troubles of the past few years have weighed heavily on hospitals. Not only are patients opting to defer lucrative elective surgeries, but they've also been slow to pay for non-elective medical attention. In response, hospitals and the companies that handle billing for them have been ratcheting up the pressure. As patients are set up for surgeries and other treatments, they're being pressed to clear up past debts they might have incurred.
Accretive Health, which is one of the largest hospital billing services providers in the country, may have stepped over the line. In late April, Minnesota Attorney General Lori Swanson filed suit against the company, alleging a pattern of patient intimidation. Shares lost nearly half their value in one day, and still remain far from the 52-week high.
To be sure, harassing people in need of medical care is both illegal and immoral. There's a time and place to present legal challenges to people that are delinquent with their bills. Heading into an operating room is not that place.
The Dividend Rich Investor: Building Wealth with High-Quality, Dividend-Paying Stocks
The Dividend Rich Investor: Building Wealth with High-Quality, Dividend-Paying Stocks
Standard & Poor’s official word on dividend-rich investing–now completely updated with 1997 data. This invaluable resource distills Standard & Poor’s successful dividend investment philosophy into a user-friendly guide for the individual investor. the authors, both editors of Standard & Poor’s high-rated investment newsletter, The Outlook, tell readers why dividends are a vital part of the investment equation, what to look for in a dividend-paying stock, which stocks are the dividend leaders, a
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The Best Trading System: How to Make Big Stock Market Returns in the Long Run as a Trader or Investor
The Best Trading System: How to Make Big Stock Market Returns in the Long Run as a Trader or Investor
So you’ve read dozens and dozens of well-known trading and investment books out there and you’re still not as profitable as you would like to be. Well then, let this be your book of last resort. Perhaps this is the last piece of the puzzle that you’re missing. Whether you’re a beginning investor or trader, or someone who has years of market experience, this concise and effective investing guide offers valuable insights on how to approach a market that is vastly different than a few decades a
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Should You Bet Against This Famous Value Investor?
It's pretty safe to say hedge-fund manager Edward "Eddie" Lampert has gotten far more headaches than he bargained for in 2005 when he bought a major stake in what has since become Sears Holdings (Nasdaq: SHLD).
Back then, he promised a more profitable company and more growth. He's subsequently delivered 18 consecutive quarters of declining year-over-year sales and managed to turn a reasonably profitable company into one with growing losses.
Oh, and there's no end in sight to the widening losing streak.
What happened to this American retail icon? To answer the question meaningfully, we have to go back to Lampert's beginnings.
Hedge fund pro turns retail wizard… or maybe it was just luck
By most accounts, 49-year-old Eddie Lampert started on the right foot. He formed his hedge fund, ESL Investments, in 1988 with the intention of following in the value footsteps of Warren Buffett. And for a while, he did it quite well, using Buffett's model and boasting of average annual gains of nearly 30% for the first several years of the fund's existence.
