The following is an excerpt from 9 Dividend Stocks to Buy for 6%-Plus Yields. Dividend plays with seriously high yields aren’t particularly easy to come by these days, at least not without stretching and probably taking more risk than we should. But for those willing to look, there are still plenty of dividend stocks to...Read More

The following is an excerpt from 10 Best Dividend Stocks for the Market’s 10 Sectors. I’ve been a big believer in piling money into the best dividend stocks, then staying there for a long time. Perhaps because the start of my career coincided with the nasty 2000-02 bear market, I’ve always taken the view that...Read More

The following is an excerpt from 5 Ways to Screw Up Your 401k There are all sorts of creative tax loopholes out there for savvy investors to exploit, and over the years I’ve looked at (and even tried) plenty of them. But the truth is, you don’t have an army of fancy Ivy League tax...Read More

The following is an excerpt from 5 Things You Must Do As Soon As You’re Employed. 20 years ago, long before I starting managing money professionally, I remember a little nugget of wisdom my mother’s financial advisor Daniel gave me: “Your career is a far more important investment than any stock or bond I’ll ever...Read More

Earlier this week, Peggy Tuck and I interviewed short seller and forensic accountant John Del Vecchio. I call John the “Horatio Caine of finance” because he knows where the bodies are buried in the financial statements. We discuss what exactly short selling is and how it’s different in real life than how it might be...Read More