Jan 31, 2017

Carefully selected dividend stocks have outperformed the market over many decades, and have not fallen as far during extreme bear markets. This is due to a market function known as "Yield Support."  In addition, investors who reinvest dividends accumulate more shares over time automatically. Those shares, in turn, pay...

Jan 30, 2017

There have been some horror stories about the way that some churches, monasteries, and nunneries invest their money in the hopes of making donations grow. But others are doing quite well!  Steve and Sinclair have the Wall Street Journal report on what happens after some churches pass the hat!

Jan 27, 2017

Once upon a time, the so-called Endowment Model of investing--mimicking the endowment funds of Harvard, Yale, and other Ivy League schools regularly outperformed the indexes. Things have changed:  according to data from Harvard, which tracks 812 schools, the average endowment earned only 6.3% a year over the last 10...

Jan 26, 2017

Jan 25, 2017

Back in the 2008 real estate crash, a term called "jingle mail" developed. It was a nickname for the homeowner in mortgage default mailing the keys back to the bank, and walking away. Suddenly jingle mail is back, but this time it is the landlords and developers of large shopping malls mailing the keys back to the bank...