“Hey ‘Deep Pockets’, what were you doing on October 19th, 1987?” the Wall Street Jungle reporter asked. I was gritting my teeth, shaking more than just a little, palms sweaty but placing dozens of individual orders for the best NYSE, dividend-paying, companies — at prices that nearly everyone thought would drop even further. Looking around [...]

Retirement Income Investment Planning – Step One – Defined Contribution plans are not retirement plans — even if your employee benefits department, the media, and Wall Street insist that they are.

Revolution Investing’s Cody Willard tells Simon Constable he has 14 stocks to consider owning that could double in value, plus six stocks to either avoid or use to hedge.

Stocks have just about doubled since March 2009 and individual investors don’t seem to care. Jason Zweig has details and explains why he thinks it may be awhile before small investors return to the market.

The average yield on these ten closed end funds was 6.88% on January 14th 2011; the funds are priced at a discount from NAV of roughly 6%;