Why a Savvy Bond Manager Is Buying Stocks

With the ten-year Treasury yielding a paltry 2.2% and yields on corporate debt, including low-quality "junk" bonds, likewise near historic lows, bond fund managers are in a bind. Kathleen Gaffney, one of the...

Osterweis Strategic Income: Decent Yield...

In the bond market, you have a choice for boosting yield. You can take interest-rate risk by investing in high-quality, longer-term bonds and hoping that rates either decline or stay stable. Or you can increase...

5 Great Growth Stocks

The companies you're about to read about appear to have little in common. Some are huge, some small. They operate in fields as diverse as security and content creation. But what connects them all is that they are...

Coping With a Moody Market

As a buy-and-hold investor, I would be much more relaxed if the stock market behaved like a rational adult -- not always perfect or understanding, but mostly calm and reasonable. Instead, it's acting like a kid...

FPA Crescent Loads Up on Cash

At FPA Crescent (symbol FPCAX), manager Steven Romick can invest almost anywhere in the world and in nearly any kind of asset. That includes the standard fare -- stocks, bonds and cash -- and some not-so-typical...

6 Lessons From Berkshire Hathaway's Annual Meeting

It was an unseasonably cold and drizzly Saturday in Omaha. But that didn't dampen the spirits of the tens of thousands of underdressed out-of-towners who shivered through the early-morning security lines for the...

6 Things You Must Know About Investing in Gold

1. Solid gold is not always solid. The price of bullion peaked in September 2011 at nearly $1,900 an ounce and has fluctuated since between $1,500 and $1,800. But a slew of worries--most having to do with the...

Cash In on Your Faith in Undervalued Stocks

Nearly a half-century ago, Eugene Fama, a University of Chicago economist, laid out the hypothesis that markets are efficient -- that is, at any given moment, the price of a stock reflects all the information the...

Big Stocks May Not Deserve Their Share Prices

What do Major League Baseball teams, today's red-hot real estate market and the world's biggest stocks have in common? They can all fall victim to the winner's curse, an economic anomaly that occurs when the...

Juice Up Your Dividends With Electric Utilities

The last time I wrote about regulated electric utilities, in November 2011, I assailed Wall Street for habitually dissing the stocks. Granted, utilities didn't excel in 2012, but their weakness owed mainly to the...

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