Effective December 1, 2009 , the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) has raised the initial and maintenance margin requirements for leveraged exchange-traded funds (ETFs) and associated uncovered options. As such, the buying power within margin accounts may be reduced. For additional details, please review the associated regulatory notice:
http://www.finra.org/Investors/ProtectYourself/InvestorAlerts/MutualFunds/P119778
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Exchange traded funds or ETF have been in existence for ages but are a novel concept in the Indian market. As with every emerging market the novelty of the product leads to on the brave of heart investing in the same, even though returns from such investments remain to be above par even in the volatile markets that we are plagued with in recent times.
Gold investments traditionally in India have been in the form of buying gold in physical form on a variety of occasions. In our country... Read Full Story
Your Guide to Dividend-Paying Stocks Big Dividend Stock List Top 50 • 50 Highest Yielding Stocks Ex-Dividend Calendar Ex-Dividend Dates All stocks going ex-dividend, next four weeks. Detective Commentary News and views on events affecting our dividend stocks. Preferred Stocks Our picks in a category favored byinvestors seeking a steady income stream. Closed-End Funds Our picks from this of ... Read Full Story
Consolidated Edison, Inc. (ED), through its subsidiaries, provides electric, gas, and steam utility services in the United States. It provides electric service to approximately 3.3 million customers and gas service to approximately 1.1 million customers in New York City and Westchester County, as well as provides steam service to office buildings, apartment houses, and hospitals in parts of Manhattan. Consolidated Edison is a dividend aristocrat as well as a component of the S&P 500 index... Read Full Story
Investors seeking an index investment nowadays can choose to put their money into either conventional fund shares or exchange-traded funds (ETFs), but deciding which to pick may seem perplexing. Many similarities—and important differences In many respects, index funds and ETFs seeking to track the same indexes are much alike. Characteristics such as risk and return attributes and portfolio holdings should be nearly the same. In addition, both ETFs and conventional index fund shares are... Read Full Story
Great investors have goals and strategies are only the tools that help them accomplish their targets. My goal is to generate a rising stream of dividend income, which would allow me to leave the rat race and spend my time doing worthwhile things like education and charity and self-development. By focusing on dividend growth , I am trying to pick the stocks, which have solid competitive advantages, whose revenues are relatively recession proof but could still grow earnings by innovation... Read Full Story
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The Trustees of SBI Mutual Fund have declared a dividend of 50 per cent for the Magnum Balanced Fund under the Dividend Option plan.
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A DIVIDEND FOCUS
On Oct. 1, Standard & Poor's said just 191 of 7,000 companies reporting dividends raised payouts in the third quarter. That marks the worst quarter in history for dividend hikes. The good news: Dividends may have hit bottom. Managers are finding dividend-paying stocks they like in retail, pharmaceuticals, consumer staples, and tech. Don Taylor of the Franklin Rising Dividends Fund looks for companies he thinks will continue to pay--and increase--dividends, rather than... Read Full Story
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A recent post at ModernGraham - a site devoted to the study of the security analysis methods of value investing pioneer Benjamin Graham - highlights “10 Dividend Companies for the Enterprising Investor” . These are the top 10 dividend stocks in the site’s database with the highest dividend yield that are considered suitable for “enterprising” - as opposed to more defensive - investors.
The list includes some surprisingly familiar names like Pfizer, Philip Morris and DuPont, as well as more... Read Full Story
