Call me a cynic, but when I see a looooooong ad presentation about financial armageddon, I skip right through the stuff about collapse and anguish and falling standards of living and economic crisis, and look for what the ad copywriter is trying to sell. Because frankly, everyone knows there’s a debt bubble. Everyone knows that […]
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This isn’t the first time we’ve seen a teaser ad that says you can “collect a $X,000 payday” — and it’s obviously appealing, there aren’t many among us who don’t find their eyes drifting toward a headline like “$6,500 payday,” even if, like your friendly neighborhood Gumshoe, you light your cigars with $100 bills. OK, […]
Over the last several months we’ve seen several ads touting Steve Sjuggerud’s True Wealth Systems, which is apparently a big quantitative screening “supercomputer” that Steve subcontracted to some computer programmers — and which is supposed to identify investing anomalies that he can then write about to his subscribers, who then will profit. And I can’t […]
I haven’t written much, if at all, about Richard Band over the years, but he’s certainly a been a fixture in the investment newsletter landscape for quite a long time (I think the letters been running for 30 years or so) … so when I saw his latest teaser pitch I thought I oughtta give […]
OK, you can stop asking now — because we’re just about to finish up with our latest multi-part series, covering the “loopholes” from the “Black Market Income” teaser for Stansberry’s 12% Letter. This letter pitches the idea that they have a secret website that “Wall Street” doesn’t want you to see — all about how […]
I haven’t sniffed out much in the way of dividend-paying stocks or income strategies in recent weeks, so this latest teaser from the folks at Cabot caught my eye. It’s not really a tease for Cabot picks, but for the digested picks of the Dick Davis folks (Dick Davis Digest is a regular digest of […]
Bryan Perry is fairly active in teasing ideas to garner new subscribers for his Cash Machine newsletter (formerly called 25% Cash Machine before, one assumes, that promise got to be too much to bear), and some of them have been pretty nice high yielders over the years, so when the questions about his latest tease […]
I don’t write about Mark Skousen all that often, in part because he doesn’t regularly barrage us with detailed stock teasers … but I’ve had a lot of readers write in to ask me about this latest teaser ad for his Forecasts and Strategies newsletter, an ad in which he says his favorite stock kept […]
Bitterness over the financial bailouts seems to have waned a bit, but there’s certainly a strong vein of anger to mine … and that’s exactly what copywriters are paid to do. This time, it’s in an ad for Jim Nelson’s Lifetime Income Report — and this is the investment idea he’s got for you: “This […]
The latest from Andrew Gordon: “GOVERNMENT BACKED… HIGHLY LIQUID… and 8 Times the Interest of a Typical Savings Account. It’s not only billionaires who are using the financial crisis to get ‘insider deals’…. Thousands of regular Americans are cashing in on a loophole for collecting up to $8,881 a month, backed by an ‘explicit’ U.S. Treasury guarantee…”
Well, here’s another teaser that appears to have been resurrected from the backfiles, for a government-created “economic security fund” that “could help you safely earn 180% or more over next 2 years.” The last time around, more or less the same teaser email, for Steve Sjuggerud’s service with Stansberry and Associates, went around with the […]
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Haven't looked at a teaser along those lines lately, but generally when "Mortgage Refunds" have been pitched in the past...
Those are all mortgage REITs, which are quite different from equity REITs. Equity REITs own property and earn rent from...
Huge leverage to the yield spread, and pretty extreme volatility when interest rates change. All income investments are...
AMZA is an interesting one, that's an actively managed ETF of MLPs.... haven't looked at it closely and I don't know wha...
Thanks Eric, have never looked closely at Starwood -- I have tended to lump them in with the mortgage REITs, though thei...
The mortgage REITs scare me in general, since they're such a direct (and often highly levered) play on interest rate spr...
Lots of folks have asked in recent weeks about mortgage REITs like WMC, of which there are many with huge yields. Haven...
Welcome back, Nightstar! Haven't seen that ad yet, it would help if you could forward Wyatt's email to ILoveStockS...
Stock Gumshoe has given me more financial return than any other source, and if being an irregular cost twice as much, I ...
I don't know all of them, but generally the higher yields are indicative of either a one-time payout or a yield that inv...
I own PER, essentially trading CHKR for it in an IRA. Like the mortgage REITs, these trusts are bleeding capital a litt...
I've tried all their premium services but have mostly chosen a "free exit" before being required to pay the big bucks. ...
Although I am a fan of mortgage REITs, I no longer hold TWO or SBY because their accounting and reporting are confusing....
Thanks Milt -- I'm afraid I haven't looked closely at the Mortgage REITs (or "Virtual banks" as Steve Sjuggerud calls th...
Thanks James -- info on that closed end fund is here if anyone is interested: http://www.ftportfolios.com/retail/cef/CEF...
I own IVR, NLY and CIM as mortgage REITs but they do not compose more than 20% of my holdings. The rest is in gold and W...
Am also a fan of mortgage REITs. While I don't own IVR, I own NLY and a couple of others. that seem a little more secur...
I have a memebership in RT as part of a package I bought with S&A Inc. Where else can you get your medical advice along ...
That's not my personal fear -- the risk for Annaly, as for all the mortgage REITs, is that the yield curve flattens ... ...
FYI, interesting note on the moves in Mortgage REITs on euro-related funding concerns today from Bloomberg: http://www....
Travis: I find high yield mortgage reits risky. However, I also find 3% low interest rates not feasible in todays market...
Edski: A well rounded income portfolio whould limit its exposure to REITs, including mortgage REITs. I hold NNN, O and H...
thanks for the comments and analysis. Can a non US citisen qualify for the dividends paid out of the Mortgage REITS sh...
It seems mortgage REITs may be approaching good buying opportunity if u have the stomach/nerve for it. I see that FBR h...