The Vanguard Wellington Fund: The Most Legendary Mutual Fund Of All-Time
I very rarely write about mutual funds for two reasons: (1) Normally, the kinds of companies that are stuffed in mutual funds (Johnson & Johnson, Wells Fargo, Chevron, Procter & Gamble) are the...
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If You Are Rich, You Need Umbrella Insurance
One of the most underrated ways that an individual can protect himself is by purchasing umbrella insurance. It is possibly the biggest no-brainer kind of insurance you can buy, simply because it...
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12-16% Annual Returns From An Obvious Blue-Chip
The difficulty of investing right now is that most people know which businesses are growing fast and have bid up the valuations on these stocks to the 30-40x earnings range so it is difficult to...
View ArticleWalgreens’ Rise As America’s Dominant Drugstore
There is a list of about 300 companies in the world that, if you bought even a token amount of the company’s stock a few decades ago, you would have created a silly high amount of total cumulative...
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The Investor’s Worst Enemy
If I had to make a short list of the investor’s biggest enemies, one of the top slots would be dedicated to the fact that we receive stock market quotations during every second of the business day...
View ArticleA Truly Cheap, High-Growth Stock Right Now
There is a financial sector stock that recently saw its stock price get clobbered in what might be an opportunity analogous to the oil sector opportunity to buy Royal Dutch Shell at a price of $37 per...
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Investing No-Brainer: Own Stocks That Can Easily Raise Prices
In his book Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits, Phil Fisher makes the point that it is not what is currently known about a company’s cash flow that matters, but rather, what comes to be known about a...
View ArticleCorporate Charitable Giving After A Takeover
George Bunting, Jr. who became the CEO of the Noxell Corporation in 1973, a company founded by his father and primarily known for its sale of Noxzema cream in those blue jars, made a public...
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Why Oil Stocks Belong In Your Stock Portfolio
Here is a crazy statistic that crossed my desk recently about the performance of the Big Oil supermajors in relation to the S&P 500 over the past twenty years: every single supermajor outperformed...
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How To Take Failure and Heartache Out Of Your Stock Portfolio
Almost all investing heartbreak can be avoided if you stick to one simple rule of thumb: only invest in the stocks of companies that you understand. It is amazing how many people stray from this...
View ArticleUnauthorized Money Withdrawal From Your Bank Account
As of 2017, the average American had a staggeringly high 18% chance of being the victim of an unauthorized withdrawal from their bank account sometime between 2018 and 2038. Aside from the intelligent...
View ArticleIs Dividend Stock Investing Too Simple and Easy?
When I first began to study investing, and began to learn about individual stocks, one of the first things that hit me about dividend growth investing is how obvious it was. When I read something about...
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Colgate-Palmolive Stock: An Essential Core Holding In Your Portfolio
You gotta love America—in this country, can you get rich by buying blocks of stock in a dish soap and toothpaste manufacturer, hold it for a long time and go about your life, reinvest the dividends,...
View ArticleAmazon’s Other Competitive Advantages
Generally speaking, when investors analyze Amazon, they focus on its ruthless distribution capabilities (i.e. fast shipping and processing of orders throughout every point in the sales chain) and its...
View ArticleWhy Russell 2000 Stocks Outperform The World
Many of you who have long followed the financial markets are aware of why the conventional wisdom says that “stocks tend to return 10% per year on average.” This data point comes from the well-renowned...
View ArticleHow Bad Are Mutual Fund Fees?
When investing, there are three to keep in mind that can erode the purchasing power of each dollar that we have: (1) The first one is inflation. If inflation runs at 4.0% annually, that means it will...
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Brunswick Corporation’s Ill-Advised Spinoff of Life Fitness Brands
Brunswick has one of the greatest legacies in the history of American business. How many companies out there have track records dating back to before the Civil War, as Brunswick does with its inception...
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The Best Stock Right Now For Fifty Years
I view investing in the stock market under the following terms: (1) about 75% of one’s investments should be dedicated to owning shares in the most dominant business holdings in the entire world, and...
View Article5 Factors For Choosing An Executor In Your Will
When you draft a will, you have to name an executor/personal representative for your will, or else the State will choose one for you (a process that will likely cost attorney fees and a few months of...
View ArticleEvery Dividend Investor Should Have A Checklist
This is a random fact about my blog writing—I keep Elmore Leonard’s “Ten Tricks For Good Writing” handy with me whenever I work my way through a post I want to add to my website. Leonard, the author of...
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