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Warren Buffett Buys And Sells These Stocks Surprisingly

Warren Buffett and his team of portfolio managers listed some 148 positions worth a whopping $147.9 billion in equities in the official Form 13F filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. This compared to $128.8 billion as of the end of the third quarter of 2016 and $115.46 billion as of December 31.

It is important to understand that some changes are made by Warren Buffett himself, with 14 sub-entities of Berkshire Hathaway in prior filings. Other changes may have come from the likes of newer portfolio managers Ted Weschler and Todd Combs. It appears as though the Buffett portfolio managers have been given much larger investing amounts.

If there is one key takeaway for the 2017 stocks it would be that this was one of the largest changes we have seen in years. New stakes were added and other stakes were grown. Other stakes were cleaned out or decreased.

Attached you will find a small overview of Warren Buffett's latest stock buys and sells during Q4 in 2016...

18 High Growth, Low Beta At Fair Prices Stocks

For the uninitiated, each stock has a beta, which is indicative of its volatility. The beta of a stock is considered in relation to that of the broad market: The lower the beta, the less volatile the stock. So a stock with a beta of less than 1 is considered to be less volatile than the market, while a stock that has a beta of more than 1 is more volatile than the market.

We have scoured the market for several low-beta, high-performance stocks that look promising for the future and can safeguard your portfolio against risks. Each of the stocks are selected by high profitable growth criteria and cheap market valueations.

These stocks belong in your dividend portfolio....

12 Dividend Champions That Will Benefit from Rising Interest Rates

On December 14, the Federal Reserve announced that they were hiking the fed funds rate by 0.25%. This is the rate that financial institutions lend money to each other overnight, and it has a trickle-down effect on other interest rates in the domestic economy.

This increase is indicative of a larger trend – it comes after an equal-sized interest rate increase in December 2015. Further, the Federal Reserve indicated in the announcement to expect three additional hikes over the next twelve months.

If each of the three hikes in 2017 will be of the same magnitude, then the year will finish at a 1.5% fed funds rate. This presents a dramatic change to our interest rate environment given that short-term rates have been held near zero since December of 2008 to provide economic stimulus.

Investors should make themselves aware of the effects that these rate increases may have on their portfolio, as interest rates have a large effect on the price of real assets.

There are currently a few Dividend Aristocrats that will benefit from rising interest rates. Most of them come from the financial sector.

Here are the results from my research...