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“A rising market climbs a wall of worry.”

—origin unknown, in use with numerous variations, since at least the 1970s

I’ve mentioned many times over the years that the quote above is one of the wisest investment one-liners I’ve come across. However, it can be useful or misleading, depending on how you interpret it.

The best use is to take it as a reminder that in a healthy, rising market that has additional gains ahead, you never run out of things to worry about....

How do dividends work? Here are the key points every successful investor needs to know

Funds invested in venture capital in the U.S. amounted to $4 billion in 1994; the 2018 figure was a record $100 billion. Note that this is not the total value of U.S. venture capital holdings. These are the amounts of new investment in the field in these two years, respectively.

Back when this burst of growth was just getting started, most venture-capital investment managers acknowledged that perhaps only one in 10 of the deals they financed wound up making any money for investors....

One key part of our Successful Investor approach is our “Limelight Rule”: Downplay or avoid stocks in the broker-media limelight.

This is a basic portfolio-construction principle. Heightened attention from brokers and the media is a poor guide to investment profits....

Momentum-based investing involves buying or selling stocks with rising or falling earnings and stock prices. It’s largely unconcerned with the absence of value markers like moderate p/e ratios or high dividend yields.


It’s a strategy that some investment managers, especially hedge fund, use to create and manage portfolios that hold long positions in stocks with positive momentum and short positions in stocks with negative momentum....

“…we suspect that few of today’s cannabis stocks will turn into profitable companies, and many will wind up worthless. We now look at cannabis stocks almost every week. We have yet to find any cannabis stock speculations we can recommend.”

—from the Inner Circle Q&A June 12, 2018

We launched our Pat McKeough’s Inner Circle service 17 years ago....

Investors want to find the top dividend-paying stocks with a record of consistency in distributing dividend payments. Dividend yields, however, can be misleading and stocks that have the highest dividend yields may also entail significant risk. That can, in turn, lead to negative consequences and losses.

Investing strategies for how to find dividend stocks to buy involve staying focused on a stock’s investment quality and history of dividends, but also your own portfolio diversification

Discover how to calculate dividend yield as an important part of the process of picking the best stocks to boost your portfolio returns.

Momentum-based investing generally involves buying growth stocks with rising earnings and stock prices. It’s largely unconcerned with the absence of value markers like moderate p/e ratios or high dividend yields.


Top stock selections are oftentime momentum favourites—but they’re really only good buys if their profit growth is sustainable over long periods....