Category: Investing

Dividend investing is different from share value investing. If your investing strategy is to “buy low, sell high” then you pay less attention to when or how often a company pays dividends to its shareholders. Value investing treats the stocks or mutual funds as commodities to be traded and your

Unless you have been living under a rock you have probably read about Warren Buffett’s advice to his wife about what to do with her money once he is gone: invest it in Standard & Poor 500 index funds and live off the interest.  This is great financial advice and

If you’re confused about options, I am not surprised. In the stock market the word “options” is used in two ways. There are the “employee stock options” that are used to compensate executives and other company employees, and there are “options contracts” that set fixed prices at which stocks will

A strategic investment, in my opinion, is an asset allocation that is made with a specific goal in mind. For example, suppose you have $5000 you want to shelter against inflation for a year. That means you want to be able to buy in a year about what you could

The stock market is a complicated system. Anyone who tells you they have a sure-fire strategy for making money in the stock market is either lying or fooling themselves. The volatility in stock prices means that most people will lose some value every day. Most people who try to invest

Warren Buffett is without question one of the most successful businessmen of all time. Unlike many millionaires and billionaires who either had seed wealth handed to them or just happened to be in the right place at the right time, Buffett started out with nothing in life. In fact, he