Dividends – cold hard cash paid out by corporates are often seen as an important criterion for a certain group of investors.
These might be 1) folks targeting a steady stream of passive income, 2) retirees looking at dividends as a form of income to fund their day-to-day expenses, or 3) simply more risk-averse investors looking at “value” stocks which are often associated with a high dividend yield.
There are, however, investors in the opposite camp...

Dividend aristocrats are companies that not only pay dividends consistently but have also grown their annual dividend payments amount consecutively over the past 25 years.
Only companies with some of the best financials and cash generation profiles (predictable cash flow) can consistently demonstrate dividend growth year after year and for at least 25 years.
The best of the best are known as Dividend Kings. Dividend Kings are dividend-paying companies tha...

Options are one of the most popular trading vehicles that can result in you making (or losing) money fast. There are many different ways in which one can trade options, ranging from simple strategies to the more complicated ones, the latter often with fanciful names associated with birds and insects (Iron condor, butterfly, anyone?)
The truth is that you do not need to know these fanciful and complex options strategies to make money. Very of...

There have been increasing chatters of an earnings recession in 2023, something that hasn’t occurred since COVID-19 blasted corporate results to the ground in 2020.
To be clear, the definition of an earnings recession is a back-to-back decline in earnings. While 4Q22 results are still underway (82% of S&P 500 has reported results), the street is forecasting earnings to have fallen -4.7% from the year-ago period, according to d...

The latest craze over artificial intelligence or AI for short, spurred on by the introduction of ChatGPT in late 2022, has seen many outperforming the broader market in 2023.
According to data from Stock Rover, the best-performing equity sectors on a YTD 2023 basis, using Sector ETFs as a gauge, are 1) Technology, 2) Consumer Cyclical, and 3) Communications.
On the other extreme, 1) Utilities, 2) Consumer Defensive, and 3) Healthcare are the 3 worst performing sectors...

The time has come for most funds to disclose their latest quarter purchases/sales and there is none more closely monitored than Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway transactions. Given a large war chest of approx. US100+bn, is the Oracle of Omaha finally going “All-in” in an improving market?
Well, that is not the case. Berkshire Hathaway made more sales than purchases in the final quarter of 2022, according to data taken from, one of my f...

I have written about incorporating options as part of your investing arsenal on several occasions. Options are often seen as a leverage tool, often viewed through the lens of fear and bewilderment.
However, the truth is that options as an investing tool are not DANGEROUS. People ARE.
Options at the end of the day are just a financial product that provides you immense flexibility to structure your trades based on a myriad of factors ...

The hype on Artificial Intelligence or AI for short is gaining traction, following the introduction of ChatGPT, an AI Bot developed by OpenAI, where Microsoft has publicly announced a $10bn long-term partnership with the AI start-up.
ChatGPT has taken the world by storm, setting the in a short span of just 2 months after its launch. The company is now offering a premium subscription of $20/month to monetize its existing user base.
Not to be outdon...

Which industry/industries would you want to invest in if you can rewind time and go back to the start of 2022?
With the benefit of hindsight, that answer is simple. Across the 11 sectors that stocks are being classified into, the Energy sector has been the sole outlier, generating strong double-digit returns in an otherwise bearish year for the market.
That is, however, water under the bridge. We are not able to turn back time.
The bigger ...