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...said that Blackwill told him that “he decided to stay in the government because the President appealed to him for help. He wound up handling the highly difficult portfolio for Iraq on the National Security Council...
...lesson for investors--even conservative income investors--is clear. By grounding your portfolio in dividend-paying stocks, over time you can enjoy the same regular payments that coupon-clipping bonds deliver with the dramatic upside of potential capital appreciation. The kicker: with most dividends now taxed at just 15%, many investors can get better after-tax returns from stocks than from bond yields, which continue to be taxed at personal-income rates as high as 35%. The number of firms paying dividends--376 of the S&P 500--has risen for the second year in a row after more than...
...also smart. In a study done last year, fund firm T. Rowe Price compared the return of a $10,000 investment in the S&P 500 stock-index (with dividends reinvested) to a core fixed-income portfolio (Lehman Brothers U.S. Aggregate bond index). Over the 20-year period from 1983 to 2003, both portfolios generated roughly the same amount of income. However, in terms of overall value, the stock portfolio grew to $71,800, the bond portfolio to only...
...roll out a flurry of new Web-scale information-discovery services. While IBM is closemouthed about specifics, the intelligence community is among the hungriest customers of such advanced, large-scale text analytics. The CIA's venture-funding arm, for example, has invested one-third of its $30 million portfolio in data mining and text/visual analytic companies like Inxight. When it comes to tracking terrorist threats, says Jim Thompson, chief scientist for information technologies at the Department of Homeland Security's newly created National Visualization and Analytics Center, high-volume text analytics "has saved people's lives." That's hardly child...
...knock dividends. They can punch up your portfolio's returns