Steve Selengut | TalkMarkets | Page 2
President of Sanco Services Inc.
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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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How To Make Stock Market Volatility Your Very Best Friend​
Volatility and uncertainty are the very nature of the stock market ... Mother Nature, Inc. if you will. Don't take her for granted when she's high, and never ignore her when she's low. Embrace her volatile moods, and she will become your VBF as well.
Dividend Investing On Steroids
Eventually you'll lean back in your desk chair and contemplate that age old question: Just when is 3.0% better than 9%? I've come up with additional "quality checks" to assure that the companies I owned were "fundamentally" better than most.
Strategic Investment Mixology - Developing The "Holy Grail" Portfolio
So what do you or your investment manager have in common with your favorite neighborhood bartender, other than the probability that you spend more time with the latter during market corrections?
Stock Market Correction Decision Making Time: Ten Do's & Don'ts
There has never been a correction that has not proven to be a buying opportunity; collect a group of high quality, dividend paying, NYSE companies as they move lower in price...
Embracing Stock Market Corrections: A Four Pronged Strategy
Cyclical corrections cleanse the markets of residual fear and greed. What can the average investor do to protect his 401(k), IRA, or personal investment portfolio from the next major market meltdown?
More That Dad Forgot To Tell You About Income Investing: Q & A
Why are CEFs, Public REITs, and Master Limited Partnerships being ignored by Wall Street and the Media? What are the most important things investor's have to understand when it comes to income investing? What is Retirement Income Readiness?
What Your Dad Never Told You About Income Investing: Q & A
One of the biggest mistakes investors make is to ignore the "income purpose" portion of their investment portfolios... many don't even realize that there should be such a thing.
Income Investing Fantasyland: High Dividend Equity ETFs And Mutual Funds
When it comes to yields and one-year returns, none of the Vanguard funds win. Despite their popularity, despite the passive-indexing craze and despite the feel-good story many want to believe is true—Vanguard is a laggard.
What You Need To Do Before Buying Cryptocurrency
Most people today know at least some things about cryptocurrencies and understand that there is a huge earning potential associated with them. The truth is that we might very well be looking at the future of money.
The "Great Recession" - Ten Years Later
Some thoughts about the investment climate around the time of the "great recession". You may find them disturbing, or enlightening, depending on where you think we are today... not a whole lot has changed.
Investment Strategy: The Investor's Creed, Revisited
Left to its own devices, an unmanaged portfolio (think NASDAQ, DJIA, or S & P 500) is likely to have long periods of unproductive sideways motion. You can ill afford to travel eleven years at a breakeven pace (the Dow, from 12/1999 to 11/2010)
Stock Market Corrections - Shop At The Gap
Amid all the uncertainty, one indisputable fact reads equally well in either market direction: there has never been a correction/rally that has not succumbed to the next rally/correction.
Managing The Retirement Income Portfolio: Planning
The retirement income portfolio (most portfolios become retirement portfolios) is the financial super hero that fills the income gap between what you need for retirement and the guaranteed payments you will receive from other sources.
Understanding "Income Purpose" Investing
Theoretically, income purpose securities should be the ultimate "buy and hold" security blanket within retirement income portfolios.
Market Numbers Through 2017...Not As Impressive As You Might Think
The S&P has gained approximately 94% in market value over the past 18 years, or an average of less than 4% compounded,annually, so not so much to celebrate in the S&P for the long term investor.
Investing: There's Always Been A Cliff
With interest rates stranded at historical lows for nine years now, the stock market side of Wall Street has benefited from a self-created image as the only game in town where reasonable "returns" can be had.
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