Posts Tagged ‘stocks’


A Wild Thursday on Wall Street

Icon Provided by Joseph Regenstein IV, CMFC on May 6, 2010

What’s the difference between “billions” and “millions”? About 650 points. Did a mistake make a sell off more severe? The Dow Jones Industrial Average settled at 10,520.32 Thursday after a 347.80 loss, with fears over European sovereign debt affecting Wall Street. Yet the 347.80 decline was just half the story. The Dow also saw its [...]

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Preferred Stocks, a special category of securities worth exploring.

Icon Provided by Joseph Regenstein IV, CMFC on February 1, 2010

Stocks that tend to pay sizable dividends. Institutional and individual investors buy preferred stocks because they offer fixed dividends – in fact, dividend yields are typically greater than those of common shares.1 Preferred stocks are occasionally called hybrid securities, because they have characteristics of debt instruments as well as equities. Let’s review some of their [...]

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Investment Management

Icon Provided by Joseph Regenstein IV, CMFC on July 16, 2009

Investments Grow and protect your retirement income and reach your financial goals with help from our investment products and services: from stocks to direct participation programs. A business or bank responsible for managing the securities portfolio of an individual or institutional investor. Typically, a money manager employs people with various expertise ranging from research and [...]

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