We all know that higher returns come at the cost of higher risk. This is one of the basic fundamentals of investing. But what if it isn’t true? In High Returns from Low Risk: A Remarkable Stock Market Paradox, Pim van Vliet and Jan de Koning challenge this assumption and find that, in fact, high-risk...Read More

I recently had the opportunity to pick up a copy of Lee Lowell’s 2009 book Get Rich With Options: Four Winning Strategies Straight from the Exchange Floor. Lee wrote an excellent primer on options trading, but the publisher probably should have put a little more thought into the title. Get Rich With Options has very...Read More

Joel Tillinghast is not a household name, even among active investors. He should be. Tillinghast is the manager of the Fidelity Low-Priced Stock Fund, and he’s beaten both the S&P 500 and the Russell 2000 by 4% per year since 1989. And while 4% might now sound like a large number, it makes an enormous...Read More

The following is an excerpt from 7 Dividend Stocks Whose Payouts Could Double in 3 Years. The legendary Wayne Gretzky famously said that “A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be.” Well, it’s not all that different with dividend stocks. If you’re...Read More

I joined Peggy Tuck this morning to talk about, among other things, Amazon.com’s (AMZN) plans to build a new corporate headquarters. Where might the lucky recipient city be? Denver? Dallas? Maybe even Austin? We discuss. —Read More