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First Pure Actively-Managed MLP ETF Launched
Monday, October 6, 2014 - 9:08am | 498Read More...One area of the ETF world that has continued to thrive is master limited partnerships, or MLPs. These alternative income-generating securities offer exposure to energy infrastructure, pipeline and storage businesses that return significant earnings to shareholders. On October 2, Infrastructure...
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United Kingdom, Silver And MLP ETFs To Watch This Week
Monday, September 22, 2014 - 10:01am | 442Read More...Last week traders digested the Federal Open Market Committee statement along with the successful initial public offering of Alibaba Group Holding Ltd (NYSE: BABA). Ultimately markets hit a new high and bullish enthusiasm returned. The week ahead promises to be jam packed with housing data and...
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2 Great Ways To Invest In Commodities
Friday, September 5, 2014 - 11:51am | 1052Read More...Many investors and professional money managers over the past ten to fifteen years have allocated a significant amount of funds into the ‘commodity' asset class. The reasons given for this allocation included equity-like long term returns, a guard against inflation and the printing of ‘fiat money'...
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3 Reasons To Invest In MLPs
Friday, August 8, 2014 - 10:36am | 374Read More...Of the many methods that resulted in Warren Buffett becoming, well, Warren Buffett, was his willingness to invest in unusual opportunities. Shareholders of Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK-A) are surely happy with his strategies. Master Limited Partnerships (MLPs) may be just such a profitable,...
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Market Wrap For November 4: Economy Is Steady, Tapering Could Be Around The Corner
Wednesday, December 4, 2013 - 6:16pm | 2104Read More...Stock futures declined before the equity markets opened after the ADP employment report showed a higher than expected 215,000 jobs were added during the month of November. Investors and traders were spooked by the report that solidifies the Fed's case to begin tapering. Traders and investors...
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EXCLUSIVE: Restructure Your Energy Portfolio By Finding Trustworthy MLPs
Thursday, September 5, 2013 - 3:56pm | 558Read More...Energy investors should consider Master Limited Partnerships (MLPs) to diversify their portfolio structures. Best known for their function in REITs, MLPs deliver periodic payments to their investors from cash flows. MLPs make up a huge portion of the energy market with more than 100 funds...
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Checking In: The Original MLP ETF (AMLP, EPD, KMP)
Tuesday, March 13, 2012 - 7:04pm | 532Read More...With the debut of the Yorkville High Income MLP ETF (NYSE: YMLP) on Tuesday, the universe of ETFs offering exposure to master limited partnerships is now up to two constituents. The Yorkville High Income MLP ETF marks the debut of the eighth MLP exchange-traded product, but as ETFdb notes, only two...
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A Defensive Dividend Investing Strategy That Generated 45% in 24 Months
Thursday, January 19, 2012 - 12:40am | 878Read More...Investors sometimes talk about going defensive only to protect themselves from sharp downside movements. All too often they associate defensive stocks with hedging tools that provide little upside potential. What if you could pick a defensive investment risk management strategy that also provided...
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Wunderlich Recommends Buying Dips For MLP Groups
Monday, August 30, 2010 - 2:25pm | 135Read More...Wunderlich Securities recommended buying any dipping shares in master limited partnership (MLP) groups, after President Barack Obama's tax reform panel submitted their recommendations. Among the options listed in the report were ones eliminating tax exemptions for MLP groups, but Wunderlich cites a...
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12 MLPs Report: 6.8% 2Q Growth
Wednesday, July 21, 2010 - 11:49am | 110Read More...Wunderlich reports: "Twelve master limited partnerships (MLPs) have reported distributions earned in calendar 2Q10 and payable in 3Q10, representing 33% of total MLP market cap. We estimate ~6.8% market-capitalization weighted year-over-year growth and 1.6% sequential growth so far this quarter....
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Propane Plays For July 4th
Sunday, July 4, 2010 - 3:12pm | 205Read More...As investors are firing up their grills for the Fourth of July festivities, they might want to use some of that propane to power their portfolios. Often overlooked as a fuel source, 4 percent of American homes count propane as their main energy resource and 80 percent of farms use the fuel to power...
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Dividend Plays Getting More Popular And Expensive (T, VZ, AMJ, NSH)
Monday, December 14, 2009 - 6:44pm | 159Read More...With investors clamoring for yield in a very low interest rate environment high quality dividend payers (which largely lagged the general market for most of the year) have begun to outperform recently. High dividend telecoms, including AT&T (NYSE: T) and Verizon (NYSE: VZ) are up close to 7%...
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Is the JP Morgan/Alerian MLP ETN Worth A Look (AMJ, NSH, KMP)?
Monday, October 5, 2009 - 10:46am | 304Read More...Early in the summer JP Morgan launched an exchange traded note which tracks the master limited partnership index. The ETN is called the JP Morgan/Alerian MLP ETN (NYSE: AMJ). Master limited partnerships have been around a while, but always were a rather neglected area of the market. They are...
