U.S. Treasuries

‘s not hard, just follow the Dividend..

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For those of you long AAPL yesterday, the paltry 6% or so gain on the most impressive numbers that we’ve seen to date from the tech giant were a bit depressing.  The fact that every single metric that analysts provided estimates on was completely blown out of the water combined with the $7 drop in share price before the announcement only reinforces the fact that both analysts and the street had no idea how profoundly astounding Apple’s results would be.  So why doesn’t the market seem to reflect similar sentiment?  One word: Dividends.  With over $17 trillion in qualified retirement … Read more

What are your worst performing funds?

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When I trained brokers for PaineWebber, we used to have mutual fund wholesalers come in almost every week and buy us lunch and tell us about their best performing mutual funds.  After a couple of yeas of sandbagging my clients with the best performing funds, I began immediately interrupting their presentation and asked them about their worst performing funds.  ”  Every year  you tell us about your best performing funds, and we sell them to our clients and then they turn into your worst performing funds after we buy them,” I interrupted once I was assure lunch was served.  “How … Read more

Analysis: “Safe haven” assets start to look risky – Yahoo! Finance

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Analysis: “Safe haven” assets start to look risky tA bank clerk removes 200 Swiss franc banknotes out of a money counter in a bank in Zurich August 16, 2011. REUTERS/Arnd Wiegmann On Friday August 26, 2011, 6:04 am EDT By Jeremy Gaunt, European Investment Correspondent LONDON (Reuters) – This year’s heady bout of risk aversion on financial markets has ratcheted up demand for gold, U.S. Treasuries and the Swiss franc to levels that suggest they may no longer be the “safe havens” they are billed as. Some investors see all three as vulnerable to a sharp sell-off should the global … Read more