Tag - portfolio strategy

Sheaff Brock Investment Advisors | active investing to outperform the market | portfolio managers
24 Sep

Passive vs. Active – The Beauty of Both

One question any investor must consider is whether to take an active or passive approach to investing. Per Investopedia, “The predominant investment strategy today is active investing,” which attempts to beat a particular benchmark and “outperform the market.” Continuing, the article points out, “anomalies and irregularities in the capital markets can be exploited by those with skill and insight.” By contrast, passive investing, the authors explain, is an approach based on investing in exactly the same securities, in the same proportions, [...]

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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 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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pharmaceutical manufacturing and investments | sheaff brock investment advisors
18 Nov

After the Recent Election, There’s New Reason to Love the Unloved

In certain oversold industries, it’s been a long, long stretch with stocks deprived of investors’ love and appreciation, observes Sheaff Brock Chief Investment Officer Dave Gilreath. Over-regulation and disfavor have swung the “affection pendulum” away from certain basic areas of our economy, Gilreath points out, including: pharmaceuticals industrials “traditional” energy (coal, natural gas, oil) After all, Gilreath reasons, with an aging population, the importance of pharmaceuticals and medical devices isn’t going away. Similarly, as the Energy Xchange emphasizes, “renewables have [...]

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chess strategy, options portfolio strategy
16 Oct

With Put Options, Portfolio Strategy is of Premium Importance

While put option buyers are interested in insuring their risk, put option sellers (also called put writers) are willing to take on that risk in exchange for additional portfolio income, explains Dave Gilreath, Sheaff Brock Managing Director. That income takes the form of premiums paid by the put buyer to the put seller. Put writing is a strategy whereby an investor writes a contract, selling that contract to a buyer. The contract obligates the put seller to buy share at [...]

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Process for Stock Options | Sheaff Brock
14 Oct

Selling Put Options: A Strategy for Those Who Want a Bit More

There are two main reasons, explain James Cordler and Michael Gross, writing in Futuresmag.com, for the popularity of option selling: investors’ ability to generate reliable income generally positive performance under varying market conditions However, the authors caution, there is no free lunch here, and option selling has its own set of risks. Two mistakes Cordler and Gross see investors make include: selling too many options relative to account size being too concentrated in a particular market sector Dave Gilreath, manager of [...]

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