Investing Definitions

Investing for Income

An investment strategy that is often overlooked by those not yet retired is investing in securities that provide a degree of fixed income in the form of dividends and interest.  Retirees skew more towards these investments because they are no longer earning money from their job, and instead seek a

Tweet Investing

By Jonathan Yates John Burbank III, founder of Passport Capital, once observed that, “There is no way you can make 30 percent a year going long on the S&P 500.  If you’re going to hit that kind of return, you have to go to places where it is going to happen.”   This focus on intensive r

Three Cheers for Tax Shelters!

Okay, before you get the wrong idea … today’s article is not going to talk about hiding money in foreign countries or any other strategy that is either suspicious or outright illegal. Cheating on your taxes is hardly something I would advocate, let alone celebrate. Sure, I think a lot of

Five ETF Targets to Consider Selling Now

In my Money and Markets columns I usually tell you about opportunities I see in exchange-traded funds (ETFs) and how you can grab them. Today I want to do something a little different: List some ETFs I think you should absolutely NOT buy! In fact, if you own any of the ETFs mentioned below, you shou

Barron’s Confidence Index

A confidence indicator in the form of a weekly index prepared by the publishers of Barrons. The index divides the average yield of higher grade and lower grade corporate bonds. The discrepancy between the yields reflects investor confidence; declining yields on lower grade bonds suggest increasing i

Private Equity

Private Equity refers to an asset class of equity capital that is available to investors, but not publicly traded on a financial exchange.