A New Strategy for High Income With Ultra-Low Risk and… Is Your Portfolio Tough Enough for the Cliff?

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Sunday, December 9, 2012

In the current edition of the Investment U Weekly Update, Investment Analyst and Host of The Oxford Club's Market Wake-Up Call, Steve McDonald, runs down the key issues affecting the global economy - and your investments. This week, you'll find... Oil and Gas Drillers Go "Green" for Big Dollars... A Bad Omen for Stocks in the Short Term? The "Slap in the Face" Award: Floating Ping Pong Ball Edition You can check it out in this video. Sponsored Make A Fortune With This "Worthless" Element (Forget Gold Or Silver) It's the world's sixth most-abundant element (in fact, there's likely some sitting on your desk right now). You might even consider it "worthless". Yet as it becomes more popular, it could help turn a $900 stake into over $20,000. That's because it's about to completely revolutionize a $350 billion+ market. Get all the details on this substance that's about to produce fortunes by clicking the arrow. Here are the top stories that were featured in our Investment U Daily this week... Alexander Green Chief Investment Strategist These Investors Are About to Get a Spanking... Again A little more than a decade ago, we witnessed a terrific bubble in internet and technology stocks. When it popped, investors licked their wounds and shifted into high-flying real estate (which, as you may recall, "always goes up"), and another bubble formed. When the air rushed out of that, they took an even bigger hit. Now, chastened and wiser, they are shifting to the safety and security of... bond funds? To quote Charlie Brown, "Good grief..." Click here to read full story Steve McDonald Contributing Editor A New Strategy for High Income With Ultra-Low Risk The Wall Street Journal recently ran a segment about a fund that's trading high-yield corporate bonds with virtually no risk! All compliments of a fold in the bond market that has been staring at us for the last hundred years – and no one noticed it. This type of corporate bond is essentially pre-refunded. That means the money to buy the bonds back is already set aside, and the buyback date is already set – in some cases in as little as a week. There's virtually no risk... Click here to read full story Marc Lichtenfeld Associate Investment Director My "Interview" With the President Over the past few months, I've appeared in the national media and written extensively about the fiscal cliff's impact on dividend investors. I'm no fan of taxes and curse like an eighth grader in a cursing competition every April 15. But I've crunched the numbers, and while I'm not happy about having to pay higher taxes on dividend investments in 2013, if the President raises taxes on dividends to ordinary income rates, it doesn't mean doom for dividend investments. Still, I'd love to be able to challenge the President on this policy... Click here to read full story Carl Delfeld Senior Analyst Is Your Portfolio Tough Enough for the Cliff? With the pressures of the holidays, a growing probability of going over the fiscal cliff, and weak job security, a good New Year's resolution for many might be to schedule a stress test. For your portfolio, I mean... Seriously, just how would your portfolio perform under the pressure of a market sell-off of 20% or spiking interest rates? Diversification into conservative investments is always a good idea but the "usual suspects" might not get the job done... Click here to read full story How to Sell Something You Don't Actually Own by David Eller Analyst, Investment U Since mid-September, the market has gone into consolidation mode, which has presented us with some opportunities to buy stock in good companies at better prices than we could get in August. The only problem is that we don't have a four-week crystal ball. If we have confidence in company fundamentals, in time, earnings and assets will grow and support growth in the stock price. But what about tomorrow? Many things can happen in the short term... Click here to read full story Be sure to check out some of the other investment stories that we've published this week on our website at: www.InvestmentU.com A "Backdoor" Way to Play America's Coming Energy Independence (Part 2) Iraq's Oil Boom: How Juniors Beat the Majors to the Biggest Opportunities Cisco (Nasdaq: CSCO) Buying its Cloud Presence

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