Archive for August, 2008
CIEIS down for the count
Last August, I proposed the hypothetical Curious Investments Equity Income Strategy with five dividend stocks – Abbott Labs, Bank of America, Masco, Autoliv, and Vector Group. Some tweaks were made along the way, but basically it was an equal weighted portfolio of stocks that I felt were broadly diversified across industries and across different technical [...]
read more »Gap turnaround well underway?
A little over a year ago, Gap announced an end to its search for a CEO in the hiring of Glenn Murphy – a food and drug retailer. Count me as part of the group of skeptical on-lookers wondering if the Gap brand was all but dead. Gap claimed that Murphy was the man for [...]
read more »An Oft-overlooked ETF Folly
Just came across an article at Motley Fool talking about a mistake that many people make when deciding how best to allocate their assets. The basic principle is that most people who actively pick stocks in addition to using ETFs for quick portfolio diversification and to gain access to various asset classes may unwittingly be [...]
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