What a battle we have going on between relentless bulls and emboldened bears - the struggle of which was evident in the push-pull ‘go nowhere’ intraday trading action seen on the broader US Equity Indexes and ETFs. Let’s look as usual under the hood at the 5-min DIA action to see the footprints of this battle and note key trade set-ups - most of which were ineffective - for t...
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In December Standard and Poor’s updated their Dividend Aristocrats list. The companies which were added were: Bemis (BMS) Legg Mason (LM) The companies removed from the list are: Anheuser-Busch (BUD) Bank of America (BAC) Comerica (CMA) Fifth Third Bancorp (FITB) Keycorp (KEY) Nucor (NUE) Progressive (PGR) Regions Financial (RF) Wrigley Wm (WWY) The biggest surprise is the removal of Nuco...
In December Standard and Poor’s updated their Dividend Aristocrats list. The companies which were added were:Bemis (BMS)Legg Mason (LM)
I wanted to call attention to a study by Rob Hanna of Quantifiable Edges regarding using a simple timing mechanism to try to achieve better returns over an 11 year period in a hypothetical 401k. Rob’s post “Should You Time Your Entries into Your 401k?” addresses this question and tests the difference between equal contributions on the 15th and 30th of each month vs entering wh...
BOSTON (Reuters) - Legg Mason Inc's once-celebrated Value Trust fund is set for its worst-ever annual returns in 2008, and some investors grumble that time is running out for its manager, Bill Miller.
BOSTON (Reuters) - Legg Mason Inc's once-celebrated Value Trust fund is set for its worst-ever annual returns in 2008, and some investors grumble that time is running out for its manager, Bill Miller.
Egg, leg, and Legg will decorate the holiday week that lies ahead.
Bill Miller is the Legg Mason (NYSE: LM) money manager, whose two funds have each lost more than 50% this year, has been asked to help run a third fund as the firm tries to halt record outflows. Before we get into the minutiae of the fund that Bill Miller will assist in managing, I just wanted to remind potential investors of some of his recent top stock picks. He loaded up shares of Citi (NYSE...
In a year when the Standard & Poor’s 500-stock index has lost 40% and just two of the 30 Dow industrials components are posting positive returns on the year, there has been no shortage of really, really, bad ideas and actions. But even in bad times, some calls turn out worse than others, and here’s just a few of ours. Readers, if you’ve got any really terrible calls to co...
Standard & Poor's recently announced the companies that will comprise the Dividend Aristocrats for 2009. The S&P 500 Dividend Aristocrats are companies in the S&P 500 index that have followed a policy of consistently increasing dividends every year for at least 25 consecutive years. The 2009 Aristocrats total 52 companies for 2009 versus 60 companies for the 2008 Aristocrats. The li...