Diversification

The most important dividend events of the past week included news that have regulators warning financial companies to restrict dividend increases and stock buybacks for the near future. According to Reuters, executives from…Read

Every industry faces periods of rise and periods of decay. The last few years have, not surprisingly, been a period of decay in the REIT Area. But like nuclear stocks after 3 mile island, or banks after the savings and…Read

Real Estate. Thinking about the sector and its ETFs might be giving you mixed feelings. The sector has been beaten down and dragged around, but it also presents an opportunity for growth in the future.The housing sector is…Read

I originally recommended Telefonica S.A. (NYSE: TEF) back in November 2006 when was trading at $58.23. Last September when it reached $81.27 I suggested selling half your position for a 40% gain. Since then the stock pulled back…Read

Its been almost a year since I originally wrote about Winthrop Realty Trust (FUR). I knew very little about REITs then and Winthrop was the first one I analyzed. The stock was selling at $6 per share at that time and today it…Read

Adrian Day is Chairman and CEO of Baltimore-based Adrian Day Asset Management, a registered Investment Advisory firm that specializes in global diversification and gold equities for individual and institutional clients. A…Read

Till last year, people using words such as “nascent” and “pre-mature” to describe the actively-managed ETF market in the United States would have been justified in doing so. The sector attracted…Read

The most important dividend events of the past week included news that have regulators warned financial companies to restrict dividend increases and stock buybacks for the near future. According to Reuters, executives from…Read

America's banks are as vulnerable today as before the credit crisis, and reforms offered by Senate Finance Committee Chairman Christopher Dodd won't fix things. Prior to the crisis, Americans spent vastly more than they earned,…Read

Real Estate. Thinking about the sector and its exchange traded funds (ETFs) might be giving you mixed feelings. The sector has been beaten down and dragged around, but it also presents an opportunity for growth in the future.…Read

The CARA100 stocks were update in late February. There are a group of very high quality stocks. Here are the correlations of all its components for the period January 4 2010 to March 12 2010, computed with our stock correrator…Read

Interesting bit of weekend reading here that is applicable to investing and the way investors think about diversification and strategies in their portfolios:…Read

Africa may host the fastest growing economies in the emerging market world. While its also one of the most risky, theres no need to sit on the sidelines. An ever-widening range of exchange traded funds (ETFs) that span the risk…Read

More than one year after the market bottom, most equity ETFs have seen a big rebound, but few have been able to match the meteoric rise of the Market Vectors Indonesia ETF (IDX), which is up more than 200% since last March. In…Read