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Steve Selengut

President of Sanco Services Inc.
Phone: 800-245-0494
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Steve is a private investment professional, working primarily with individuals and small businesses. He developed the Market Cycle Investment Management Process during the 1970s. He has always focused on individual IGVSI common stocks, CEFs, REITs and MLPs.. Steve invented, uses, and teaches his ...more
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The “Total Return” Shell Game
Thursday, June 18, 2015 12:24 PM EDT
Just what is this “total return” thing that income portfolio managers like to talk about, and that Wall Street uses as the performance hoop that all investment managers have to jump through? Why is it mostly just smoke and mirrors?
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How To Be Prepared For Rising Interest Rates
Friday, April 10, 2015 3:12 PM EDT
Rising interest rates are good for investors; so are falling rates. Fortunately, they routinely move in both directions. They can be traded quickly for exceptional results from “stodgy” income CEF portfolios.
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I Want Tax Free Income
Thursday, March 12, 2015 12:58 PM EDT
The vast majority of Tax Free CEFs continued (raised even) their monthly payouts during the financial crisis, and no payments were missed.
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To Rollover 401k Plan Assets Or Not To… That Is The Question
Friday, February 27, 2015 3:30 AM EDT
The major purveyors of 401k products, and those who benefit from using them remind me of politicians… they press the party line, and use their power to demonize the competition.
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The “Retirement Ready” 401k Exists. Right?
Thursday, February 19, 2015 5:39 PM EDT
Since the demise of corporate Defined Benefit Plans, most employees have been forced to rely on their own investment acumen to make sense of the product menu choices accompanying an ever growing array of private and public Defined Contribution Plans.
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Retirement Income Investing: The Dreaded RMD
Thursday, January 29, 2015 5:34 PM EDT
All of us are approaching retirement, many of us are already there, and some of us (myself included) are thinking about the ultimate IRS slap-in-the-face… The Required Minimum Distribution. It’s time to make sure that your retirement income program is actually ready.
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Year End Review 2014 And 2015 Preview
Tuesday, December 30, 2014 5:07 PM EDT
If you are not taking advantage of 6%+ tax free yields (and a higher range in taxable CEFs), you owe it to yourself to investigate the opportunities.
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The Microsoft Retirement Income Program
Wednesday, December 10, 2014 4:53 PM EDT
Once we recognize that all investment portfolios eventually become retirement income portfolios, we can begin to focus on the regular recurring income that they produce, retired or not, the market value of your private portfolio has no purchasing power.
In this article: MSFT
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The S&P 500: 15 Years To Nowhere!
Monday, October 20, 2014 2:38 AM EDT
On November 30 1999, the S & P 500 Index was around 1,400, basking in the sunlight of what many analysts were calling the “No Value At All” or “Dot Com” Bubble.
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Dealing With Stock Market Corrections: Ten Do’s And Don’ts
Tuesday, October 14, 2014 4:16 PM EDT
Stock Market realities need to be dealt with quickly, decisively, and with zero hindsight.
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Pitfalls Of Target Date Funds… And Some Proposed Replacements
Wednesday, October 8, 2014 1:49 PM EDT
The industry is abuzz with the idea that, as popular as they have become, Target Date Funds (TDFs) are flawed. Several fixes have been proposed. Here is one of them...
In this article: VTXVX
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The Investment Gods Created Volatility… And It Was Good
Tuesday, July 15, 2014 12:00 PM EDT
Without market volatility , there would be no chance of profit and no risk of loss.
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The Very Best 401k Plans
Thursday, July 3, 2014 12:00 PM EDT
Performance numbers don’t produce understanding or develop reasonable expectations. The focus is on market value “performance” … and expense ratios, regardless of their impact on participants.
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Retirement Readiness
Tuesday, June 3, 2014 12:00 PM EDT
One of the good things about being the “old guy in the corner office” is the opportunity to share your experience with others. As a private portfolio manager, bringing people from active careers into nearly as active retirements has always been a major objective.
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White Paper: MCIM Vs. ETFs & Mutual Funds
Tuesday, February 4, 2014 3:15 PM EDT
The purpose of this paper is to describe the many differences between the Market Cycle Investment Management (MCIM) process and the investment process within Mutual Funds and Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs).
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