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Sheaff Brock, ducks with heads underwater signifying downside risks,
15 Sep

When Diversifying Has Too Many Downsides

Strategies for Concentrated Equity Positions Part One: Covered Calls Whether through love or happenstance, like many investors, you may have ended up with a very large investment position in one company or in several companies within the same industry. Perhaps you received stock from an employer as part of your retirement package. You might have inherited shares from a beloved family member. You might have intentionally built a big position in the shares of a company you admire. Whatever the reason [...]

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girls blowing bubbles, Sheaff Brock CIO looks at market "bubbles"
30 Mar

Market Bubbles and the Big Picture

A basic characteristic of financial bubbles, Troy Segal wrote recently in Investopedia, is the suspension of disbelief while a speculative stock price surge is happening. It’s only after a bubble has burst that it is recognized, much to investors’ chagrin. The term “bubble” itself refers to a situation in which a stock, or even the entire stock market, exceeds its fundamental value by a large margin, Segal explains. There’s no doubt that the advent of commission-free investing apps such as [...]

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Sheaff Brock Investment Advisors | Indianapolis | Preferred Stock Performance | Asset Class
30 Oct

Will Higher Interest Rates Huff and Puff Your House Down?

Ever since (think back approximately a year-and-a-half) rates began their slow upward movement, income investors have experienced a certain degree of worry about the “big bad wolf” blowing down their carefully constructed investment “abodes.” Thankfully, as Sheaff Brock senior portfolio manager JR Humphreys, CFA, CAIA explains, if you’ve “built” for the longer term (planning a longer holding period), there may be little reason for concern. In fact, Humphreys pointed out in an October interview with our SheaffBriefs editor, since December [...]

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Salzinger Sheaff Brock | Mark Salzinger | Exchange-Traded Funds | investment strategy
18 Aug

The Anomalies and Advantages of Exchange-Traded Funds

Exchange-Traded Funds (ETFs), often described as “baskets” of marketable securities, contain anywhere from 30 or 40 stocks to thousands, with the typical ETF containing companies numbering in the hundreds. Asked to compare owning ETFs to owning individual stocks, Sheaff Brock joint venture partner Mark Salzinger sees the “baskets” as a risk-reduction strategy, because with ETFs, investors are exposed to a broad range of companies. In fact, through ETFs, investors can gain exposure to “satellite” or niche positions, Salzinger adds—anything from [...]

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sheaff brock investment advisors active management style portfolio investing
20 Jul

Active vs. Passive: “Stand Up and Be Counted”

One question any investor must consider, Sheaff Brock Managing Director Dave Gilreath agrees, is whether to take an active or passive approach to investing. While there is certainly room for both approaches in an investor’s portfolio, he concedes, ’tis the season for the stock picker and sector picker to stand up and be counted. Why? “Markets are not cheap right now,” Gilreath explained in an interview with our SheaffBriefs editor, “whether judged by ‘price-to-sales’ or ‘price-to-book.’” Unlike 2009, for example, [...]

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Sheaff Brock REITs portfolio investment strategy
05 May

The Importance of REITs in a Diversified Portfolio

A real estate investment trust (REIT) is a company that owns, and in most cases operates, income-producing real estate. In today’s environment, Sheaff Brock Managing Director Ron Brock explains, REITS can make a lot of sense for investors searching for diversification and yield. While direct ownership of income-producing real estate typically means loss of liquidity, REITS trade on major exchanges like stocks and can provide investors with an extremely liquid stake in real estate. In fact, the three primary advantages [...]

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Sheaff Brock Investment Advisors Indianapolis Mid-Cap Performance analysis
07 Apr

Neither Too Big Nor Too Small, Midcaps May Turn Out to be “Just Right”!

Most investors are accustomed to paying attention to small company stocks (they’re exciting) or large caps (they’re familiar), but often need to be reminded of a third, sometimes “forgotten,” asset class that has the potential of being (as Goldilocks would put it) “just right” for their portfolios. With the necessary caveat that “past performance is no guarantee of future results,” Sheaff Brock Mid-Cap 10 portfolio manager Paul Coan likes to point out that midcap stocks tend to be more stable [...]

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Sheaff Brock Mid-Cap 10 One-Two Punch
28 Mar

The One-Two Punch Potential of Mid-Cap Stocks

Market capitalization? Just a fancy name for a straightforward concept, says Investopedia.com. The market value of a company’s outstanding shares is calculated by taking the stock price and multiplying it by the total number of shares outstanding. (It’s a misconception that the higher the stock price, the larger the company, Investopedia goes on to explain; the true value is affected by the number of outstanding shares each company has in addition to its price.) Used to be, stocks fell into [...]

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Sheaff Brock | Mid-Cap stocks may be just right asset category; just like Goldilocks' chair
13 Jan

Could Mid-Cap Serve as the Goldilocks Asset Category?

Remember the story of Goldilocks and how the little girl tried sitting in each of the Three Bears’ chairs? After rejecting the first two chairs because they were the wrong size, she tries the third: “Ahhh, this chair is just right,” she sighs. Most investors look at small stocks (they’re exciting) or large cap stocks (they’re familiar). But midcap stocks can be the “forgotten” asset class that may turns out to be “just right,” points out Sheaff Brock portfolio manager [...]

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Sheaff Brock's perspective on whether the bull market will continue in 2017
06 Jan

Sumthin’ or Nuthin’ – What’s the Verdict on the Market?

“For next year, no strategist at a top Wall Street firm forecasts that the bull market will end,” writes Akin Oydele in Business Insider prior to the end of 2016. In fact, Oydele adds, “many expect America’s largest companies to return to earnings growth.” To put it in the vernacular of Dave Gilreath’s brother-in-law, market performance in 2017 looks to be a real “sumthin’.” (Gilreath, a Sheaff Brock Managing Director and its Chief Investment Officer, has a brother-in-law who rates [...]

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