Kinder Morgan (KMP, KMR, KMI) reported Q1 2011 results last night after market close. Here is the summary from the press release. Kinder Morgan Energy Partners Increases Quarterly Distribution to $1.14 Per Unit Distribution 7% Higher Than First Quarter 2010 HOUSTON, Apr 20, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) — Kinder Morgan Energy […]
Investing and weight lifting? I must have lost it. No, not quite yet. Bear with me. My latest post on cash as the ultimate diversification tool got me thinking about a very underused investment strategy, barbell investing. The term and strategy come from the bond world of investing. It is […]
Here is the Income Investor Dashboard for April 2011. Prices are as of the close of markets on March 31, 2011. Despite a very exciting and volatile month not much changed in terms of market prices and yields. At one point during the month US markets were down, on the […]
Well, its finally time to put it out there. Since I started blogging I’ve been trying to build a base of background posts to get me to this point. Today, I want to share with you the retirement model that I am using to fund my retirement. I think I […]
On Feb 11, 2011 the general partner of KMP went public under the symbol KMI. The GP was taken private by a consortium of private equity firms a few years ago and now is back as a public entity. I’ve posted on KMP several times in the past (latest post […]
I’ve talked a lot about how much it takes to retire and safe withdrawal rates and ways to increase safe withdrawal rates. See the series of posts here. All of these discussions and studies I reference are based on a certain retirement model. Lets call it the portfolio value retirement […]
Here is this month’s income investor dashboard update. Prices are as of the close of trading on Feb 28, 2011, the last day of the month. Almost everything got a little more expensive last month, with yields coming down across the board. In general, stocks did better than bonds. In […]
The 3rd largest MLP by market cap, Energy Transfer Partners (ETP) reported Q4 2010 results that were as expected. The full press-release can be found here. Total distributable cash flow (DCF) for the year was $1.03B which was only about a 7.4% increase from 2009. The Q4’10 declared distribution of […]
EPD reported Q4’10 and full year 2010 results on February 17th, 2011 and again they were nothing short of impressive. The full earnings release can be found here. I also highly recommend their earnings calls where EPD always does a nice job of providing additional color to their earnings results. […]
Sometimes it is good to get back to basics. After a recent conversation with a family member, an elementary school teacher, about the school’s decision to rename improper fractions into something else (no, I’m not joking) I ended up thinking about some dividend basics. One of the basic properties in […]
Last month I introduced my income investor dashboard that helps me keep tabs on the investment landscape from an income investor’s point of view. I’ve updated the dashboard as of this morning. Here it is: I added this month’s updates to the table and calculated the change in yields from […]