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Dividend stocks. Another way to protect your portfolio.

Lately I’ve been publishing ways how to cover you portfolio in days of uncertainty. Currently I am searching for high quality dividend stocks. Among big caps top payers are usually banks and financials like Bank of America (BAC), Wachovia (WB) or Citigroup (C) with dividend yield around 6.I’ve searched caps with market capitalization at least 5B and P/E below 15 and the winner is Magyar Telekom (MTA) with dividend yield 14. Also I rather prefer telco before financials nowadays. European telecommunication sector is one of my favourite. All good started with better than expected earnings results for France Telecom (FTA.PA). I still keep long position in Deutsche Telekom (DTE.DE). Both are traded at 52 weeks high.h…
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4 December, 2007| Economy | Comments (0) @ 20:01

Prepare For Bleak Times, U.K. Edition

Britain’s financial watchdog has issued one of its starkest warnings on the state of the mortgage market and credit conditions, telling lenders to prepare for bleak times and secure adequate liquidity, even at high prices.
via R…
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4 December, 2007| Economy | Comments (0) @ 18:15

Money Markets: And I thought they smelled bad… On the outside!

I’m increasingly convinced that when we, as investment pros, think back on the sub-prime debacle of 2007 in ten years, we’ll think of trouble at money markets first. The CDOs that have blown up were more spectacular, but at least mezz and sub CDO investors were more prepared to take losses. The hedge funds that have fallen apart are a sexier story, with the complexity and egos involved, but again, those investors knew they were taking some degree of risk. The ABX will be a distant memory. Money market investors assumed they’d never take losses, and that’s why it will hurt so much when they do. Y…
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4 December, 2007| Economy | Comments (0) @ 0:50

Basel II Super Crunch Time

At last, someone who gets it.
Simon Allocca, head of non-French corporate origination at BNP Paribas said:
“By the end of the summer, the principal problem facing banks was not U.S. subprime or collateralized debt obligation exposure but the drawing down of standby loans and bilaterals….
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4 December, 2007| Economy | Comments (0) @ 0:38

Mutual fund company launches retail portable alpha funds based on “real” alpha

The term “exotic beta” still generates embarrased giggles when uttered outside the hedge fund industry. But one mutual fund company is trying to change that by applying hedge fund concepts to mutual fund analysis….
Original Source: allaboutalpha.com

4 December, 2007| Economy | Comments (0) @ 0:20

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