Why Low-Risk Investments Won’t Sustain You in Retirement
Retirement is often associated with getting by on low-risk investments. But if you truly want to grow your nest egg, risk is essential.
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Should You Sell Your Technology Stocks?
After a huge run-up to start the year, technology stocks got crushed last Friday. It could be the beginning of a long-overdue correction.
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Cabot Benjamin Graham Value Investor Special Bulletin
Here's my assessment of the high flying technology stocks, which now look vulnerable.
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Cabot Dividend Investor Weekly Update
The broad market pulled back sharply this week, dragging the S&P 500 through the 2,100 level once again. Today’s Fed meeting, the shooting in Orlando over the weekend and the upcoming Brexit vote are all contributing to a heightened sense of uncertainty and “risk-off”...
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Are You Risk Tolerant?
What does risk tolerance really mean, and how can you figure out what yours is?
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Drownproofing Your Portfolio
Cabot’s growth advisory letters—Cabot Growth Investor, Cabot Top Ten Trader, Cabot Emerging Markets Investor—use market timing to identify positive market conditions, essentially telling you when the investment surf is up. Their advice is especially important when market conditions are negative. Knowing when to out...
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The Most Undervalued Utility Stocks
Utility stocks are known for being low risk—they’re often called “widow and orphan stocks”.
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The Four Things You Can Do In the Water
If you’re in the water, there are four things you can do. The first thing you can do in the water is drown.
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Keeping Your Head Above Water?
The surfer is the investor who figures out which direction the market is going and gets in step with it.
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Smart Investors Ride the Wave
I don't mind telling you that these are scary and depressing times for investors. One wave of bad news no sooner breaks over us than another one--even bigger--appears. The American banking and auto industries are circling the drain, and the Dow, which was spitting...
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Review of 2007 Yields Five Investing Goals for Next Year
I have always believed that cutting losses short is, by far, the #1 rule when investing in fast-moving growth stocks. So much so that my stops are often less than 10%, even 5%, as I try to buy a leader near a support...
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Profiting From The Mortgage Mess
Ideally, you want to invest in industries where the dominant factors are positive, where booming demand for products and services means revenue growth is rapid and profit margins are high. Trouble is, in the current market climate, the best growth stocks, which enjoyed...
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Gold Stock and Economic Headlines
And now one brief recommendation. It's a gold stock, Freeport McMoRan (FCX). Freeport owns the Grasberg open pit mine in Indonesia, which is not only the world's richest gold mine but also the world's third-largest copper mine. And it acquired Phelps Dodge earlier year,...
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