Every value investor envies legendary money manager Mario Gabelli’s genius — and for good reason. Gabelli leads GAMCO Investors, a $36 billion global investment firm known for bringing its clients 16.3% annualized returns since its… Read More

On average, they’re yielding nearly 8%. That’s almost four times the yield of the S&P 500. Try getting that amount from a money market or savings account.#-ad_banner-# But that’s not the half of it. In tandem with those high yields, the capital gains have been great too. The average total return for these forty securities is 39.4%. The best performer has gained… Read More

On average, they’re yielding nearly 8%. That’s almost four times the yield of the S&P 500. Try getting that amount from a money market or savings account.#-ad_banner-# But that’s not the half of it. In tandem with those high yields, the capital gains have been great too. The average total return for these forty securities is 39.4%. The best performer has gained 254.5%, yet still yields 4%. This isn’t the performance of some secret index or an exclusive hedge-fund’s holdings. It’s what is currently happening within the portfolios of my High-Yield Investing advisory. What’s the secret to that sort of performance? How can you build a similar portfolio for yourself? Don’t get me wrong — I do an enormous amount of research and watch my holdings and the market like a hawk. But much of… Read More

You may not know his name now, but you soon will. University of Rochester professor Robert Novy-Marx has developed a new formula, and it has caught the attention of Wall Street. The Wall Street Journal reports that Greenwich,… Read More

Some people built their fortunes by reinvesting dividends. My mother was one of them. For example, she parlayed a $2,500 investment in Bristol Myers (NYSE: BMY) into $65,000 simply by reinvesting dividends into shares of… Read More

“Gamblers always die broke, young man,” whispered the grizzled, old casino lizard at the Blackjack table as I gathered my meager winnings. It wasn’t very nice to hear: A recent college graduate, I had just earned a small sum during my first visit to a casino. But that advice ended… Read More

It started out as a challenge to find a winning trading system. It turned out to be one of the best income strategies in the world. From July 2012 to January 2013, I put my “Instant Income” strategy… Read More

To the dismay of average investors, great companies such as Google Inc. (Nasdaq: GOOG), Priceline.com Inc. (Nasdaq: PCLN) and MasterCard (NYSE: MA) come with a steep price tag. Each has a stock price above $500, making it nearly impossible for small-time investors to… Read More

The tidal wave of change is coming… And investors who get in now stand to make a killing. I’m talking about the shale oil and gas boom… and that’s despite the lowest natural gas prices in 35 years. Now that the country has… Read More

As someone who works in finance, I talk to investors on a daily basis. While some are experiencing success, others are struggling just to stay in the game. Each one of them has a different way of… Read More

The most devastating market events are those that no one sees coming. Take what happened to the Lehman Brothers in 2008, for example. Up until the last minute, virtually no one could have imagined one of the country’s leading… Read More