March 23rd, 2010 value investor Back by popular demand… Below is our list of the top 10 ‘interesting’ insider trades for the week of 3/22/2010. These are companies that have been selected by the buyingvalue filter application. Read more about our value filters here. The companies selected are those that have cleared the first filter [...]
If you want to be successful with investing you have to have some money to invest- sorry, no way around it. Logically there are only two ways to solve that problem either increase your top line and bring in more income or decrease your bottom line and find some ways to squeeze dollars out. The [...]
A lease option agreement is sort of a rent-to-own deal. You rent the property from the owner for a fixed period (usually no more than a few years), at the end of which time you have the option to buy the property. Normally, the seller requires some sort of down payment (often less than a [...]
The word bond basically means an IOU. You lend your money to Uncle Sam, to General Electric, to Procter & Gamble, to the city in which you live — to whatever entity issues the bonds — and that entity promises to pay you a certain rate of interest in exchange for borrowing your money. This [...]
Benjamin Graham’s arrival on Wall Street in that summer of 1914 was not much more than a chance encounter. There were no telltales that Graham would live in that world for the next four decades, synthesize a dominant theory of value investing, and in the process create a class of thousands of superinvestors like himself. [...]
Helping You Reduce Risk In their purest forms, hedge funds are about reducing risk. A hedge fund is structured to reduce the risk of the portfolio without sacrificing return. Financial research has shown that investment return is closely related to the risk that an investor takes. In most cases, a hedge fund investor has other [...]
With the following savings options, the principal is guaranteed (or close to guaranteed), and the rate of return should keep you even with or slightly ahead of the inflation game: Local Savings Bank There’s something to be said for keeping at least a small balance at the neighborhood bank. I do. Need a loan someday? [...]
H&R Block (HRB) is one of the most widely recognized consumer brands, as the company is nearly ubiquitous across the country at tax time. H&R Block misstepped badly during the housing bubble, making a major foray into mortgage loans. This mistake is now behind the company, so future value creation will depend mostly on H&R [...]
A 401(k) plan is a savings plan that allows you to divert a portion of your income into a tax-sheltered savings account, which accumulates without your having to pay income taxes on it. This program falls into the defined contribution retirement category because the law defines, or limits, how much you can contribute to your [...]
Fess up, fellows: The masters of the universe have turned out to be masters of disaster. No matter which aspect of the financial crisis you consider, there is a man behind it. So, it is worth pointing out how different things might be if the financial world were female. Finance professors Brad Barber and Terrance [...]