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1) Where Did All the Yield Go? + Vic Wisemann’s Thoughts on: KO, MCD, GE, YHOO
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This is a great time of year. The snow has melted and the grass is getting greener every day. This time of year always reminds me of being a kid, counting the days until school was out. I remember when I was a kid, going outside and playing with my friends. In those days we didn't have video games, iPods or cell phones. We went outside and we played games. Sometimes we played football or baseball, but other times we played weird hybrid games like flag ball or fortress.
I don't expect anyone to recognize those last two; they were neighborhood games played nowhere else in the world, as far as I can tell, but there was a small town in Illinois once where they were close. Being from the neighborhood, however, I know the rules, and could probably still play. O.K. I'm too tall for fortress and too slow for flag ball anymore, but in younger years it was great.
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The rules for those old childhood games stay basically the same from generation to generation. There were no big worries about things changing when you didn't expect them to. Investing, however, isn't a game and the rules seem to be changing day by day. The mantra of buy low - sell high will probably never change, but determining just what to buy and when to get in has changed a lot over the years.
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One of the things that I'm most worried about right now is people taking money that they want to keep safe and trying to find investments that earn a yield that's a little higher. Often referred to as “stretching for yield,” it can be a dangerous game, especially if you don't understand the rules. Rules which, by the way, are subject to change.
Read on to find out how to get the safety of bonds with the upside of equities.
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- What strategy could be used to take some of the risk out of bond ETFs and what trick can investors use with this ETF strategy for a targeted 4%+ annualized return with almost 3% downside protection?
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