At this time of year our thoughts usually turn to the holiday festivities, family gatherings and such. While no different for me, I usually have one more activity at this time of year that puts me in the Christmas spirit, the creation of an investing wish list. Making an investment Read more
I’ve covered one of my alternative investment strategies for retirement portfolios already, in my post on structured products. Today, I’ll introduce the primary strategy I use to generate income from my cash balance – option selling. Cash is an important part of any asset allocation. It allows an investor to Read more
Energy Transfer Partners (ETP) is another of the big cap MLPs. Along with KMP and EPD it makes up a good portion of the Alerian MLP index. Like my earlier posts on KMP and EPD this post takes a look at the partnership’s historical performance and how its positioned for Read more
In an earlier post I discussed the big boy of the MLP space, Kinder Morgan. Today, I’ll talk about the new big boy in the MLP space, Enterprise Products Partners (EPD). EPD is now the largest MLP by market cap. Like KMP, EPD’s historical performance as an investment is downright Read more
Total returns of 27% per year since 1996. 15% annual growth for dividends in the same time. A $100 investment in ’96 would have turned into $2,518 as of 9/3/2010 compared to $185 for the S&P500. It’s no doubt that Kinder Morgan (KMP) has been a stellar investment over the Read more
I an earlier post I talked about MLP valuation and considered if the sector was overvalued. My conclusion was that based on avg historical yield the sector seemed pricey but based on my preferred metric, the yield spread to the 10yr note, the sector was not over valued. Today I Read more
Today I wanted to cover one of the most critical dividend stock metrics, yield on cost (YOC for short). Rising YOC is one of the great benefits of owning dividend stocks, in particular one with good dividend growth. YOC is simply the current dividend rate divided by the price you Read more
One week ago I posted about tech stock dividends and that tech stocks may become great dividend stocks in the future. Well, its one week later, the Gators are playing again (this time vs Bama, god help us) and its time to revisit tech stock dividends again. My conclusion in Read more
In a previous post on dividend investing I mentioned why I choose to invest in dividend stocks. Its simply because of the higher long term compounded returns (see here for details). Today I’ll discuss another reason to own dividend paying stocks – they protect your portfolio during bear markets.. Or, Read more
Short post for this Saturday evening. Florida Gators are playing Kentucky as I type! Gotta get back to the game. I love dividends. I worked in the technology industry for 20+ years. But that’s about where the relationship normally ends between dividends and technology stocks. Tech stocks are growth stocks Read more
I haven’t gotten around to discussing owning individual stocks vs mutual funds vs ETFs but I saw an article today that I wanted to discuss briefly with regard to MLPs. There have been several ETFs launched recently to track the performance of the MLP sector or the Alerian MLP Index Read more