As promised in my last post, I want to address the concern that MLPs at today’s prices may be overvalued. There is no doubt that investing in MLPs has received increasing attention this year. This has been true of all income investments particularly bonds in the face of such low Read more…
MLPs, or master limited partnerships, are a type of company structure that was created by an act of congress in 1986 to encourage investment in the natural resource and energy sector. They are income pass-through entities, i.e. they pay no corporate tax and pass most of their profit on to Read more…
On Thursday, Market Folly ran a piece summarizing the latest newsletter from Trapeze Asset Management, a hedge fund, called ‘Stocks vs Bonds and Risk vs Reward’. I thought the piece was quite interesting in regards to the way a top hedge fund thinks about stocks vs bonds with respect to Read more…
My primary investment strategy to generate income and grow my portfolio in retirement is dividend investing. In this post I’ll discuss why dividend investing makes up the fundamental leg of my strategy. It basically boils down to history. Historically, dividends have generated upwards of 45% of the average annual total Read more…