In my latest post, I started a 3 parts series on factors making a big difference in your retirement portfolio. If you don’t consider them, your retirement plan could go bust faster than the plane you are taking to travel Europe this summer. The first article was about the infamous

Since I received the commuted value of my pension plan last year, I’ve given lots of thoughts about building a retirement portfolio. In that optic, lots of retirees ask me to write a more detailed approach about a higher yielding portfolio. Since I’ve received lots of demands comin

Sell in May and Go Away… With such an overvalued market, I bet you thought about that old saying, didn’t you? After all, finding value in a stock market that has been running higher and higher for the past 9 years is called “mission impossible” by many investors. You might as well

One thing I enjoy the most about running an investing platform is that I get the opportunity to connect with thousands of investors. We can share ideas and their questions often leads to great article ideas. This is exactly what happened the other day when a member asked me my opin

Warning: I really wanted to name this article “Financial Split Corp Bashing,” but I thought it would be nicer if you read the words “explained” instead. Jokes aside, I find there are some major issues investors decide to ignore (or just don’t know) when they look at an investment p

Invest only in what you know, isn’t what billionaire and famous investor Warren Buffett is saying to beginner investors? I’ll admit it upfront before you want to throw me tomatoes; Warren Buffett is a smarter and better investor than I am (and probably than I will ever become). Thr

I’ve been fighting for many, many… many years. It has been an epic fight that started the day I switched my portfolio toward dividend paying stocks. When I started blogging about dividend growth investing, I was reminded several times by older investors that many of my picks didn’t

At the beginning of the month, Intel (INTC) shares dropped drastically upon news that Apple (AAPL) would drop the world class chip maker to make its own. My first thought was “God why two companies I like have to beat-up on each other like this?”. And my second thought “this is a g

Imagine you throw a knife in the air to impress people around you and you try to catch it as it rapidly falls. If you succeed, you look like a pro. If you fail, you will catch the blade and cut yourself. Picking a stock rapidly dropping on the market is like catching a falling [