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A Safe 3-Stock Portfolio That Pays 5.9%

| September 12, 2016 | 0 Comments
A Safe 3-Stock Portfolio That Pays 5.9%

When planning for retirement, most investors try to split their assets between stocks (higher risk, higher return) and federal U.S. government bonds (lower risk, and these days, much lower return). Problem is, stocks are enjoying an overextended winning streak. The S&P 500 is up over 7% year-to-date: S&P 500 Moves Up and To the Right […]

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Danger In Junk Bonds – Sell These Funds Today

| August 22, 2016 | 0 Comments
Danger In Junk Bonds – Sell These Funds Today

More companies are going bankrupt now than any time since the Global Financial Crisis. This is a big problem for everyone, but nowhere is the pain more acute than in the high yield bond universe. More defaults mean more non-payments on bonds and lower prices for those bonds, causing a junk bond portfolio to fall […]

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