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Avoid the Unforced Investment Errors Even Billionaires Make

The Big Picture

All costs impact your returns, but high or excessive fees have an enormous impact as they compound or, more accurately, lessen your portfolios compounding over time. ” Ask the folks who loaded up on MBS for the extra yield how they did. ~~~ There is an endless assortment of ways to make mistakes that hurt your portfolio.

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Can You Live Off Dividends In Retirement?

Darrow Wealth Management

If you own 10,000 shares, you receive $40,000 in dividend income (before taxes) and have a portfolio currently worth $2M. You’ll receive the same $40,000 in dividend income and the value of your portfolio drops to $1.5M. Dividend paying stocks and funds can be a great addition to a portfolio.

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The Contrarian’s Guide: Inside David Dreman’s Value Investment Strategy

Validea

A 10-stock portfolio based on his criteria returned 79.2% The strategy showed particular strength in 2003, 2004, and 2006, with returns exceeding 30% in each of those years. The portfolio maintained a beta of roughly 1.0, The Strategy in Practice Our testing of Dreman’s approach demonstrates its effectiveness.

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The Magic of Simplicity: Joel Greenblatt’s Two-Factor Investment Strategy

Validea

In Greenblatt’s back-testing from 1988 through 2004, the Magic Formula generated average annual returns of 30.8% Think of it as “buying good companies at bargain prices,” as Greenblatt himself describes it. The Track Record The results speak for themselves. compared to the S&P 500’s 12.4%.

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Strategy of the Week: A Small Cap Growth Model Inspired by The Motley Fool’s David & Tom Gardner

Validea

Performance Overview (July 15, 2003 – 2025 YTD) Since inception, the Small Cap Growth Investor (Fool inspired) Portfolio has returned 13.2% Year Fool Portfolio S&P 500 +/- S&P 2003 (7/15/2003) 19.8% 2004 22.5% Year Fool Portfolio S&P 500 +/- S&P 2003 (7/15/2003) 19.8% 2004 22.5% 2007 23.3%

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5 Smallcap stocks with over 35% DII holding to keep on your radar

Trade Brains

GTL Infrastructure Founded in 2004, headquartered in Navi Mumbai, Maharashtra, GTL Infrastructure is an Indian telecom tower company that focuses on providing shared passive telecom infrastructure to wireless telecom operators across India. Foreign Institutional Investors (FIIs) hold an 8.43 percent stake in the company.

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Stagflation Is Coming. All-Weather?

Random Roger's Retirement Planning

Interest rates going up doesn't worry me from a portfolio perspective, I pretty much don't have any interest rate risk in the portfolio. My first thought is to think about the all-weather attributes of Permanent Portfolio-inspired, quadrant investing. Portfolio 3 is sort of close to what we blog about regularly.