Earn Thousands More on Your Portfolio, Risk-Free... And the Energy Sector’s Biggest Threat (and Opportunity)

Sunday, September 29, 2013 In the current edition of the Investment U Weekly Update, Bond Strategist 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. (Click the image to play.) Steve is traveling this week, so we've selected one of our favorites from the archives. You can check it out in this video. SPONSORED The Top 10 Stocks for 2014 One has enough cash to pay every American $165. Another has raised dividends for 36 straight quarters. That's just the start. We've found 10 stocks with one common thread: They could beat the Dow... the Nasdaq... and the S&P 500 in the coming year. Click here to learn more about The Top 10 Stocks for 2014. Here are the stories that were featured in Investment U this week... The Power of Compounding By Tom Dyson, Special to Investment U We've seen compounding referred to as "the most powerful force in the universe," "the royal road to riches," and "the greatest mathematical discovery in human history." Albert Einstein called compounding the eighth wonder of the world. Compounding is a simple investment strategy in which you put your money in an investment that pays a return. At the end of the year, you take your return and reinvest it with your original stake. Your dividend, or interest, earns a return, too, building a bigger dividend - or higher interest payments - the next year. Click here to read the full story. Earn Thousands More on Your Portfolio, Risk-Free By Alexander Green, Chief Investment Strategist Last week I participated in a special Oxford Club conference on tax minimization for investors held - appropriately - in Washington, D.C., the home of runaway spending and the incumbents responsible who want you to pay for it. In my experience, most investors fail to understand how unnecessarily forfeiting thousands of dollars in investment taxes is costing them the long-term financial security they desire. Others realize the hurdle that high investment taxes pose, but shrug their shoulders and figure there isn't much they can do about it. This is blinkered thinking. By following the few steps I'm about to outline here, you can save yourself many tens of thousands of dollars in taxes in the years ahead. Click here to read the full story. The Energy Sector's Biggest Threat (and Opportunity) By David Fessler, Energy and Infrastructure Strategist On July 6, 2013, Ralph Seidensticker quietly passed away in his home in Valencia, Calif. He was 81 years old. If you ask 1,000 people who he was, it's doubtful that more than one or two would know. Seidensticker was the pioneer in nuclear reactor design. He spent 58 years designing reactors for nuclear power plants as an Argonne National Laboratory engineer. Many of the 104 plants in use in the U.S. today use his design features. Today, a group of companies stands to make billions tearing them down. Click here to read the full story. Over 1 Million Ounces of Gold Will Disappear By Sean Brodrick, Resource Strategist Are gold traders being played by the Fed? Almost certainly. Consider what happened last week. First, gold prices rallied hard when Chairman Ben Bernanke announced that there would be no "tapering" of the Fed's quantitative easing program. Then, two days later, a Fed governor said that tapering was likely in October. This sent gold prices caroming back and forth, and left traders shell-shocked. But you don't have to be a victim of these short-term distractions. Oxford Club Members know that sound investment principles and long-term thinking should guide their decisions. And longer term, it sure looks like there is going to be a supply squeeze in gold. Click here to read the full story. How to Buy Stocks at a Discount By Alexander Green, Chief Investment Strategist It's an open secret that the way to make money in stocks is to buy low and sell high. What most investors don't understand is there are two distinctly different ways of buying low. One method leads to huge profits with a high margin of safety. The other usually leads to frustration and big losses. So let's take a closer look at both... Click here to read the full story. Be sure to check out some of the other investment stories that we've published recently on our website at InvestmentU.com. What to Do With Your Money in Your 30s Moto X Could Push Google (GOOG) Well Above $1,000 a Share Opportunity Erupts as the Potash Cartel Dissolves Rising Interest Rates Mean Trouble for Banks, Insurers – SHARE INVESTMENT U – If you enjoy reading Investment U, why not share it with your family and friends? 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