Insights on Income
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Insights on Income: You Don't Have to Sacrifice Capital Gains for a High Yield
By Martin HutchinsonContributing Editor When it comes to income investing, it’s all too easy to fall into the trap of forgoing growth in pursuit of juicy dividends. It’s a major problem when investing in U.S. stocks in particular, but internationally, investors can have their cake and eat it, too: There is no reason why you […]
Insights on Income: Magnify Your Returns With Investments in Foreign Currencies
By Martin Hutchinson Contributing Editor In a recent column, I suggested that investors seeking income (which means most of us aged 55 or older) could do better in foreign stocks than in domestic shares, especially since options-obsessed corporate managers have slashed U.S. dividend payouts in order to protect their yearly bonuses. In this column we're […]
Insights on Income: Foreign Markets are a Necessary Profit Play for Today's Income Investor
By Martin HutchinsonContributing Editor Back in the middle 1980s, income investing for U.S. investors was pretty simple. Inflation was around 5% - roughly the same as now - but U.S. government bonds were paying close to 8%, and without going into high-risk debt issues you could find 9% with very little difficulty. If you were an […]