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13 ways to make yourself a better investor in 2019:

2019-06-06T13:05:45-04:00By |Categories: Blog|Tags: , , , , , , , , , |

1)      Focus on dividends. Buy companies that have a history of raising dividends each and every year. A company that raises its dividend signals confidence for the following year. 2)     Don’t overpay. Buy companies that are trading at a Price Earnings [...]

Too Big to Fail and Too Cheap to Ignore

2018-06-28T18:20:42-04:00By |Categories: Blog|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

Followers of Barry Schwartz’s articles will recall that value investors await opportunities in the market by swinging at “fat pitches.” A fat pitch is intended to  provide the investor with a margin of safety by protecting him against downside risk. [...]

Stick with stocks for the long run

2012-06-07T10:42:15-04:00By |Categories: Blog|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

On June 4, 1992, my 40th birthday, I resigned from my job in the venture capital industry and launched Baskin Financial.  With no clients and no track record, it was a pretty scary thing to do.  Now, twenty years later, [...]

Finding Retirement Income in a Low Rate Environment

2018-06-28T18:20:42-04:00By |Categories: Blog|Tags: , , , , , , , , , |

It is no secret that income-seeking investors have fewer places to turn than several years ago. As the global economy went south in 2008, central banks reduced the cost of borrowing to spur economic growth. With long dated Government of [...]

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