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High Dividend ETFs – An Equity-Income Investment Fantasy

High Dividend ETFs – An Equity-Income Investment Fantasy

These ETFs have a basis in IGVSI quality equities, and could be excellent trading vehicles. Certainly, they can be expected to track the IGVSI and the more popular (but totally manipulated) DJIA and S & P 500 averages.

But traded they must be, or they are just another “buy ‘n hold” archaism. ETFs are actually not managed at all. The “passive management” referred to is merely the readjustment of holdings to mirror the weightings in a separate and totally unmanaged index.

March 21 2011 | Posted in Financial, Latest Stuff, Opinions & Blogs, U.S. News & Reports, Uncategorized, World News & Reports | Read More »

How Much Longer Can This Wall Street Toga Party Last?

How Much Longer Can This Wall Street Toga Party Last?

Unlike most investment strategies, the Market Cycle Investment Management Methodology includes a selling-for-profit discipline that (incredulously) seems to be a unique investment model. Over the past 40+ years, MCIM users have taken profits during every market upswing and repurchased Investment Grade Value Stocks during every down bubble. Any feel for what the results must have been?

March 8 2011 | Posted in Financial, Latest Stuff, Opinions & Blogs, U.S. News & Reports, Uncategorized, World News & Reports | Read More »