The S&P’s Platinum Portfolio consists of the top rated stocks from the Standard & Poor’s Fair Value Portfolio and its Stock Appreciation Ranking System (STARS). To be eligible in this portfolio, all stocks must carry a 5-STARS rating and a Fair Value Ranking of 5. The table below lists the 5-STARS rated stocks in the …
The 2010 edition of the Credit Suisse Global Investment Returns Year Book confirms that equities outperform bonds over the long term. The chart below shows the performance of U.S. stocks, bonds and T-bills from 1900 thru 2009: A $1,000 invested in …
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The Wall Street Journal’s Jason Zweig has written an interesting article on the risks of high yields paid by closed-end funds. Closed-end funds trade like stocks and are considered cheap when they trade at a discount to their NAVs. They trade at a premium if the market price is more than their NAV. Closed-end funds …
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The S&P Agribusiness North America Index consists of 24 largest publicly-traded agribusiness companies that are either Producers, Distributors & Processors and Equipment & Materials Suppliers in this sector. The Constituents in this Index must meet the following criteria: Trade on the U.S. and Canadian exchanges including ADRs Have minimum market capitalization of US$ 500M at …