Tim Plaehn
Tim Plaehn is the lead investment research analyst for income and dividend investing at Investors Alley. He is the editor for The Dividend Hunter, an investment advisory delivering income investments with double digit growth in share price and dividend payments. Tim’s also editor of Weekly Income Accelerator, a covered call trading service, and Automatic Income Machine, a dividend growth service focused on growing your nest egg.
Tim Plaehn's Latest Posts
How To Profit With Closed-End Funds
Investors are attracted to closed-end funds (CEFs) because of high yields and (often) stable monthly dividends. These types of dividends can provide stability in retirement. The challenge is not all CEF dividends are created equal. So let’s take a look at what to look out for… The CEF Connect website lists 423 CEFs that trade on the […]
How To Profit As LNG Production Doubles
I view liquefied natural gas (LNG) as the most critical energy source for the future. A recent report forecasts that LNG demand growth will continue to at least 2040 and double from current production levels. Several stocks let you participate in the attractive growth potential. VettiFi recently interviewed Stifel managing director Ben Nolan to discuss the […]
Surviving And Thriving In An Ugly Stock Market
After a wonderful 2021 for stock investors, the last two years have been rough, to say the least. The next sustained bull market seems to remain in the unknown future. So let’s look at a couple of market strategies that have worked and will do so no matter how the stock market goes… It is […]
Why Value Stocks Are About To Outperform
The bulk of stock market gains since last October are due to large price increases from a handful of large-cap, tech-focused stocks. But growth stocks like that have had their time in the sun. Let’s look at why value stocks could outperform in the future… According to Investopedia, growth stocks are shares of companies that […]
What Gen X Can Do To Save Their Retirement
Arecent report highlights that many Gen Xers’ retirement savings are woefully short of what they will need to be income secure for their retirement years. Let’s look at the problem and some steps they can take to not reach their retirement years with worries about making ends meet. This month, the National Institute on Retirement […]
How ETFs Really Work – And Why It Matters
Active investors typically hold a lot of different types of securities in their brokerage accounts. From interacting with my newsletter subscribers, I know that many of them think of every investment in their brokerage account as “stocks”; however, much of what we own may not be common stock shares. This may seem like a minor […]
How To Invest For What’s Coming In The Markets
I have never believed you can see the future by comparing current economic factors to the past. The current economic conditions validate my belief: they are so different that making that type of comparison would not provide valid signals. Instead of trying to guess the future based on history, let’s look at the last three […]
Your Cash Could Be Earning You More Income
With interest rates rising, your cash holdings could now earn you some interest income. Again, they could—but they may not be doing so. Many financial institutions are not passing along higher interest to customers holding cash. You should check to see how much your money earns, and if it’s a pittance, look at some alternatives. Here […]
The No. 1 Way To Make Money After Stock Downturns
You may have heard the saying, often (mis-)attributed to Mark Twain, that history does not repeat, but sometimes it rhymes. Well, I just saw a table of historical returns that shows how some historical rhyming will benefit our stock portfolios. Let’s take a look… This table comes from Charlie Bilello, founder and CEO of Compound […]
How To Invest For Rising Interest Rates
A few weeks ago, Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell threw the stock markets under the bus with his comments about making stopping inflation the Fed’s top priority. If the central bank follows through, the result will have interest rates moving higher and staying higher for longer than stock market investors were expecting. That sent stocks […]
