Adam Fischbaum brings more than 20 years of professional investment experience as financial advisor and portfolio manager. Affiliated with an NYSE-member firm, he specializes in value, income and macro thematic investing. Adam is also a contributing editor for Yieldpig.com and his work is published frequently on TheStreet.com, BusinessInsdider.com, as well, Seeking Alpha and TalkMarkets.com. He currently holds a Series 7, 63, 65, and 31 license. Adam lives on the Gulf Coast with his wife and two sons. When he’s not running money or writing about it, he enjoys hunting and fishing.  

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One of my favorite colloquialisms is “50% of something is better than 100% of nothing.” It’s best when said with a grizzled Southern accent with a big dip of Copenhagen wedged in the speaker’s lip. —Recommended Link— Ex-Military Intelligence Officer Finally Reveals He Secret To Her 90.9% Success Rate Today only save 62% on the system that is helping smart investors like you make massive gains…hurry, wall street insiders hope to shut this down soon… Click here before it’s too late. Kidding aside, this phrase is one of the many mantras… Read More

One of my favorite colloquialisms is “50% of something is better than 100% of nothing.” It’s best when said with a grizzled Southern accent with a big dip of Copenhagen wedged in the speaker’s lip. —Recommended Link— Ex-Military Intelligence Officer Finally Reveals He Secret To Her 90.9% Success Rate Today only save 62% on the system that is helping smart investors like you make massive gains…hurry, wall street insiders hope to shut this down soon… Click here before it’s too late. Kidding aside, this phrase is one of the many mantras grown-up investors will use from time to time. Markets and stocks will and do go down at some point. It’s one of the few guarantees that come with the territory. We all want to do well on the upside. But with an unavoidable downside, the key is to do less worse than the market. It’s doable. #-ad_banner-#The fancy term money managers throw around is “downside capture.” As ridiculous as it sounds, it’s a thing. And it works. There’s an actual portfolio called the downside capture ratio. However, rather than getting too far into those weeds, the ultimate goal of downside… Read More

In show business, you’re only as good as your last hit whether it’s a play, movie, or song. Oddly, the pharmaceutical business used to be the same way. As a young pup in the mid ’90s, I remember the veteran brokers loitering around the coffee machine jabbering about pharma stocks and the drugs the companies had in their pipelines. Remember, this was when Pfizer (NYSE: PFE) had just fired the opening salvo in the Baby Boom’s second sexual revolution with its blockbuster erectile dysfunction treatment Viagra. —Recommended Link— Learn How This New Medical Breakthrough Will Wipe Out Cancers, Heart Disease,… Read More

In show business, you’re only as good as your last hit whether it’s a play, movie, or song. Oddly, the pharmaceutical business used to be the same way. As a young pup in the mid ’90s, I remember the veteran brokers loitering around the coffee machine jabbering about pharma stocks and the drugs the companies had in their pipelines. Remember, this was when Pfizer (NYSE: PFE) had just fired the opening salvo in the Baby Boom’s second sexual revolution with its blockbuster erectile dysfunction treatment Viagra. —Recommended Link— Learn How This New Medical Breakthrough Will Wipe Out Cancers, Heart Disease, Alzheimer And Many Other Illnesses Read on and learn how you can make millions. And during the next two days only you will save 75%. However, over the last decade, as the trend of big pharma companies subbing out their research and development (R&D) to smaller, faster moving biotech companies has proliferated, you hear less chatter about Merck (NYSE: MRK) or Johnson & Johnson (NYSE: JNJ) having this or that drug in phase one, two, or three. #-ad_banner-#Then again, maybe I’m hanging out with the wrong people or not watching the right financial news shows. So, I decided to… Read More

When markets are rocking and rolling, pundits and soothsayers love to throw around the phrase, “priced for perfection”. This means that a company’s stock is priced correctly (usually too high) relative to its fundamental prospects. —Recommended Link— Boosting Your Retirement Income With ‘Executive Dividends’ Issued by some of the biggest corporations in America but unreported by the press, these “Executive Dividends” can be worth a fortune–if you know where to look… See how to cash in HERE, starting at $3,080 per month. In my experience, that mindset always ends poorly. Because, as we all know, trees don’t grow to… Read More

When markets are rocking and rolling, pundits and soothsayers love to throw around the phrase, “priced for perfection”. This means that a company’s stock is priced correctly (usually too high) relative to its fundamental prospects. —Recommended Link— Boosting Your Retirement Income With ‘Executive Dividends’ Issued by some of the biggest corporations in America but unreported by the press, these “Executive Dividends” can be worth a fortune–if you know where to look… See how to cash in HERE, starting at $3,080 per month. In my experience, that mindset always ends poorly. Because, as we all know, trees don’t grow to the sky. Thinking about that takes me back to my teenage years when I was obsessed with collecting vinyl records. Columbia/CBS (now Sony music) had a merchandising strategy known as “The Nice Price”. Titles by the label’s critically-acclaimed but lower selling artists were priced at an attractive discount. The label’s monster hitmakers were sold at full price. #-ad_banner-#This was OK by me. I didn’t want Loverboy or Journey (it was the ’80s). I’ll gladly take Elvis Costello and the Attractions and the Clash. Ironically, I was more than surprised decades later when I sold my vinyl library and netted enough… Read More

As the talking heads and market pundits wring their hands and spout off, it seems that the consensus bogeyman is an inverted yield curve. But what is that exactly? —Recommended Link— Good News: Crash Insurance For Just $167 Smart people usually don’t take crazy risks. There’s only a tiny 0.03% chance that your house will burn down this year. That’s just one in 3,000. But you still pay for insurance, just in case. Now here’s what we don’t get: there’s a 41% chance our president is going to be impeached… maybe even booted out of… Read More

As the talking heads and market pundits wring their hands and spout off, it seems that the consensus bogeyman is an inverted yield curve. But what is that exactly? —Recommended Link— Good News: Crash Insurance For Just $167 Smart people usually don’t take crazy risks. There’s only a tiny 0.03% chance that your house will burn down this year. That’s just one in 3,000. But you still pay for insurance, just in case. Now here’s what we don’t get: there’s a 41% chance our president is going to be impeached… maybe even booted out of office… and millions of investors are facing that risk head-on. History shows that could cut your entire portfolio by 48%. Good news though: you can hedge against that possibility for just $167. Get all the details here… In literal terms, when short-term bond rates are higher than longer rates or the spread between them is narrow, things can get weird. Markets and investors tend to favor a steep yield curve. Higher long-term rates suggest inflation which suggests higher economic growth which begets corporate earnings growth. The result is higher stock prices. Sounds like the “If You… Read More

If 2018’s stock market behavior was an amusement park ride, potential riders would probably be required to read a 60-page warning booklet and sign a release. “All Over The Road” would probably be a good name for it. Unfortunately, investors can’t exit through the gift shop. —Recommended Link— Just Released To The Public: 10 Stocks You MUST Own If You Want To Beat The Market Discover the 10 stocks with the most potential to crush the market in 2019. This is your chance to gain access to the definitive guide to beating the market for FREE ($99.00… Read More

If 2018’s stock market behavior was an amusement park ride, potential riders would probably be required to read a 60-page warning booklet and sign a release. “All Over The Road” would probably be a good name for it. Unfortunately, investors can’t exit through the gift shop. —Recommended Link— Just Released To The Public: 10 Stocks You MUST Own If You Want To Beat The Market Discover the 10 stocks with the most potential to crush the market in 2019. This is your chance to gain access to the definitive guide to beating the market for FREE ($99.00 value). Click here for the full details. It’s been a brutal year. And anyone who says they aren’t sitting on losses is either a liar or a genius. #-ad_banner-#But what if you still believe in your idea longer term? The way markets can move you may sell and book a loss, only to wait 31 days and buy back the stock at a higher price. It’s what psychologists refer to as “fear of missing out” or “FOMO.” From a tax-loss standpoint, investors may sell a stock to realize a loss to offset the tax consequence of a gain. However, the… Read More

One of Warren Buffett’s most famous quips is that his ideal holding period for a stock is forever. Naturally, there’s much more to it than that. The most important element, of course, is the sustainability of the underlying company’s business. —Recommended Link— What would YOU do with an extra $3,080 every month for the rest of your life? Never worry about cash again. Be free to live how YOU want… go on a lavish vacation… or build up a college fund for the grandkids–it’s up to you. Get your share here… Do their business models enable multi-decade (or beyond)… Read More

One of Warren Buffett’s most famous quips is that his ideal holding period for a stock is forever. Naturally, there’s much more to it than that. The most important element, of course, is the sustainability of the underlying company’s business. —Recommended Link— What would YOU do with an extra $3,080 every month for the rest of your life? Never worry about cash again. Be free to live how YOU want… go on a lavish vacation… or build up a college fund for the grandkids–it’s up to you. Get your share here… Do their business models enable multi-decade (or beyond) earnings durability or will they become obsolete? As technological growth and development expands geometrically, just about every industry faces an obsolescence issue either partially or completely. A successful business must have the ability to adapt and grow. Not only should their business sector be solidly and easily defensible, the company’s ability to generate cash consistently and return that cash, in some form (usually dividends) to shareholders. It’s not hard to find these types of names. A forever stock’s company typically touches consumers on a daily basis in some form. In fact, the best company’s have woven themselves into the fabric… Read More

After a spectacular, virtually volatility-free bull run, equity markets are a little jittery these days. The excuses, like in the classic film by the same title, are the usual suspects. The Fed is raising rates too fast. The trade war. The jobs reports are too good, and the result will be wage inflation. George Soros. —Recommended Link— Firm With 1,588% Gains Worthy Of Legacy Portfolio? We’ve come across a 167-year-old materials developer that’s been part of everything from Edison’s first incandescent bulb… to optics in the Hubble Telescope… to the iPhone’s Gorilla Glass. It’s been making fortunes for investors… Read More

After a spectacular, virtually volatility-free bull run, equity markets are a little jittery these days. The excuses, like in the classic film by the same title, are the usual suspects. The Fed is raising rates too fast. The trade war. The jobs reports are too good, and the result will be wage inflation. George Soros. —Recommended Link— Firm With 1,588% Gains Worthy Of Legacy Portfolio? We’ve come across a 167-year-old materials developer that’s been part of everything from Edison’s first incandescent bulb… to optics in the Hubble Telescope… to the iPhone’s Gorilla Glass. It’s been making fortunes for investors for generations and has seen its stock rise 1,588% since 2002. That’s a full 1,350% more than the S&P–and a return of $170,000 for investors who were smart enough to put 10k into it 16 years ago. But here’s the thing… even this success wasn’t enough to earn it a spot in our Legacy Assets Portfolio. Click here now to discover the seven companies that did make the list. I could go on. But I won’t. The market has been knocked around a little. The falling leaves, cooler temperatures and the re-emergence of Starbucks (NASDAQ: SBUX) pumpkin spice… Read More

Bill Gates, Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) founder and internet godfather, penned an essay in 1996 that contained the now famous quote “content is king.” Gates’ thesis was that the internet would become a marketplace for content. —Recommended Link— “It’s like getting 26 paychecks advanced to you in ONE LUMP SUM!” Executive Dividends are one of Wall Street’s best-kept secrets, paying out a small fortune in unannounced cash seemingly at random–and today, Nathan Slaughter shows you where to find them. Read more here. Gates didn’t get rich by accident. Twenty-two years later, the Oklahoma-style land rush to produce and acquire the… Read More

Bill Gates, Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) founder and internet godfather, penned an essay in 1996 that contained the now famous quote “content is king.” Gates’ thesis was that the internet would become a marketplace for content. —Recommended Link— “It’s like getting 26 paychecks advanced to you in ONE LUMP SUM!” Executive Dividends are one of Wall Street’s best-kept secrets, paying out a small fortune in unannounced cash seemingly at random–and today, Nathan Slaughter shows you where to find them. Read more here. Gates didn’t get rich by accident. Twenty-two years later, the Oklahoma-style land rush to produce and acquire the most and best content continues at a breakneck pace. AT&T (NYSE: T) acquired content powerhouse Time Warner (NYSE: TWX). Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX) and Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) are throwing money at Hollywood, looking for the next hit. #-ad_banner-#Of course, these are the shiny objects. There are quieter, less capital-intensive, and, ultimately, much more profitable deals afoot. One completely overlooked space is the small market and regional newspaper segment. One company is doing that. Formed in 2007, New Media Investment Group (NYSE: NEWM) has spent over $1 billion building its portfolio — acquiring 145 daily newspapers and 340 weekly newspapers across 37… Read More

There’s an old Wall Street maxim: “You never go broke taking a profit.”  However, for most investors, especially those of us who are humans, that’s easier said than done. We’ve always got “buy” disciplines and criteria: prices, forward PE ratios, dividend yields, etc. Or, if you’re a technician (aka “wiggle reader”), you look at 200-day moving averages, reverse head and shoulders patterns, and other indicators. —Recommended Link— Stick It To The Costs Of Life With New Legacy Assets Portfolio In this climate of rising interest rates and looming trade wars… when raising a child costs a quarter-million dollars, attending… Read More

There’s an old Wall Street maxim: “You never go broke taking a profit.”  However, for most investors, especially those of us who are humans, that’s easier said than done. We’ve always got “buy” disciplines and criteria: prices, forward PE ratios, dividend yields, etc. Or, if you’re a technician (aka “wiggle reader”), you look at 200-day moving averages, reverse head and shoulders patterns, and other indicators. —Recommended Link— Stick It To The Costs Of Life With New Legacy Assets Portfolio In this climate of rising interest rates and looming trade wars… when raising a child costs a quarter-million dollars, attending college runs another quarter-million, and retirement expenses can exceed $1,000,000… when our Social Security and Medicare systems are rotting away from the inside… we knew we needed to do something to secure ourselves and our families. After spending 8 years and $1.5M of our own money on research, the result is here… Take the worry out of retirement and turn an ordinary portfolio into a multi-generational legacy. It’s time for a little peace of mind — click here to discover the impact Legacy Assets can make on your portfolio today. But, in my experience, one of the hardest things for… Read More

Right at the onset of World War II, the British Ministry of Information produced a simple poster that would become an iconic piece of pop art. Originally intended to be a public morale booster, the poster was topped with the regal crown and in simple block letters on a red field were the words “Keep Calm and Carry On.” —Recommended Link— The Only Pot Stock Worth Owning This summer, Canada will completely legalize cannabis for medical and recreational use — sparking an $8 BILLION industry.  Our experts have their sights on a company that’s been granted a virtual monopoly… Read More

Right at the onset of World War II, the British Ministry of Information produced a simple poster that would become an iconic piece of pop art. Originally intended to be a public morale booster, the poster was topped with the regal crown and in simple block letters on a red field were the words “Keep Calm and Carry On.” —Recommended Link— The Only Pot Stock Worth Owning This summer, Canada will completely legalize cannabis for medical and recreational use — sparking an $8 BILLION industry.  Our experts have their sights on a company that’s been granted a virtual monopoly by the Canadian government – a moat that would make Warren Buffett jealous. Get in early on this exceptional triple-digit opportunity before the law goes into effect. Click here to learn more. I think of this poster when clients, politicians, and other pundits begin the customary gnashing of teeth and wringing of hands when the federal government talks of deficit and debt issue increases. Yes, $20 trillion is an almost incomprehensible number. The annual debt service, according to data from the General Accounting Office (GAO), was $457 billion in 2017. #-ad_banner-#Now for the good news: Total U.S. government revenue clocks… Read More