Yep, it’s another investing ideas post! It’s been several months since I last posted one of these ideas posts, but I have forgotten you guys! I know how popular they are!
I’ve just been really busy. Honestly! With the holidays behind us, and my old car finally sold (yes it sold!), I’m feeling like I finally have time to sit down and start digging into some juicy annual reports!
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In past episodes of Mr. Tako Escapes, I’ve written rather incessantly about the difficulty of trying to predict the future. Even though it would be exceedingly handy to predict future stock market movements, most humans have no ability to predict the future.
Despite this, many people try — They gamble hard-earned money on the speculative investments in the belief that the investment will become “The Next Big Thing”. Sometimes they win, and sometimes they lose…
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This time of year it seems to get progressively harder and harder to sit down and write a blog post. Firstly, there’s the holiday’s vying for my time — Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year’s are the primary offenders. There’s also parties, celebrations, and family gatherings that fill-up the days surrounding the holidays too! Certainly no time for writing then!
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With October rolling to a close in slightly more than a week, I thought it was high-time to spit out one of my investing ideas posts. For those of you not familiar with series of posts, every month I try to write-up the most interesting investing ideas I’ve seen over the past month.
These are investments that I find interesting, unique, and perhaps have the potential to compound money for shareholders…
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Wow, what a summer! Every month I try to write-up a post detailing my current investing ideas, but I failed horribly in August. Summer happened. I was so busy traveling and vacationing around in August, that I didn’t manage to write that post! Ooops! Sorry about that folks! Summer was busy!
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Investing? Who has time for investing? Like many families, we’ve been enjoying a very busy summer in the warmer weather. Investing has been on the back-burner compared to other activities like going to the pool, BBQ’ing, riding bikes to the library, and working on summer projects.
Even with investing on the back-burner however, I still find myself reading 10Q’s and news about all the investments I’m interested in. Call me crazy, but investing is where my interests are. Some people like to watch TV, but I read a quarterly earnings reports…
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They say the time to buy is when blood is in the streets… Well, I’ve starting to see plenty of red over the last couple of weeks. I guess that means it’s time for another investing ideas post!
Yep, it really has been months since I last wrote one of these investing ideas posts. It wasn’t because I lacked any interest in investing; I just couldn’t find any great ideas. Everything just looked too expensive to my eyes over these last 6 months…
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I need to admit I made a mistake. At first glance, master limited partnerships ( ‘MLP’ for short) always seemed like the kind of investment I would automatically dislike — With flat share prices, large debt levels and high dividend yields. They ticked a lot of my “don’t invest” boxes pretty quickly.
It should come as no surprise, that I’ve essentially ignored MLP’s for years…
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Once upon a time and not so long ago, I told a fairy-tale about Low Beta investing. It’s one of those great investing fairy tales backed up by plenty of research which attracted lots of attention and money. When I looked at the actual results of the strategy, it didn’t fair so well. It made for a good bedtime story however.
Fortunately, there’s plenty more investing bed-time stories where that came from! Today we’re going to look at one of the classics — a equity investing strategy used to protect the investor during recessions and other market downturns…
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