I credit that outperformance to one basic advantage: Being ready, willing and above all able to choose what we invest in.
ETF investors are stuck owning whatever the governing algorithm dictates. We on the other hand can choose what we buy and—just as critically—when we do and how much.
After 30 years plus in this business, I can tell you there’s no substitute for experience. And I’ve had my share, successfully navigating bull and bear markets since the late 1980s. But most of all, we’ve been willing to do the hard work of continuously researching and analyzing hundreds of individual companies—so we can find the handful that maximize our chances of reliably building wealth and regular income.
It's a process that set us up well for this year too. so we could dodge the unprecedented wave of dividend cuts. It’s continued to sustain us, even as many companies and popular income-generating mutual funds have faltered. And it’s allowed us to buy premier dividend stocks over the past year, when others have over-estimated the risks and fled.
If CUI Plus sounds like an approach you’d be interested in, I have one more thing to tell you. This year could be your last, best chance to unload weaker dividend stocks before they head lower again, some possibly for the last time.
When the bottom fell out of the stock market a year ago, the popular view was it was the end of the bull market that began in March 2009. What’s become clear since is it was no such thing. Rather, the decline was just a deeper and scarier version of the selloff of late 2018 and before than those of 2016 and 2011—simply pauses in a bull market now entering its 13th year.
The combination of record monetary and now fiscal stimulus—along with the inevitable winding down of the pandemic—are likely to take stocks to even loftier heights this year. And we’re positioned to take advantage of that at CUI Plus.
But a growing number of stocks we’re avoiding are once again what I call “Icarus” stocks: Flying dangerously close to the sun and therefore at growing risk to crashing and burning. And when this bull market does finally end, their investors’ losses are going to be truly epic.
My objective at CUI Plus is always to generate big, safe and reliably growing dividends. But now more than ever, I also want to give investors the tools they need to keep participating in the bull market as long as it lasts, and to dodge the debris from its inevitable fall.
Bottom line: If you’re an individual investor that wants to put hard earned money to work at reasonable prices—and without taking undue risks—it’s designed with you in mind.
Each bi-weekly Action Report highlights my Portfolio recommendations, the apex of the income investing universe carefully selected to provide you with solid income and growth to expand your net worth.
My straightforward investing advice features explicit instructions on what to buy and sell, as well as recommended position sizes. I also provide concise commentary on all the major developments affecting each Portfolio holding, and how they’re shaping our advice.
And for those times when something critical happens in between issues, I’ll send an alert with clear instructions for what needs to be done and why—buy, sell or hold.
The cost of CUI Plus is $299/year —or $5.75 a week. Why such an affordable price? Because I believe in this service, and I think you'll agree once you take a look inside.
I know some of you may not have tried income investing or, as I like to call it, “responsible investing.” If that’s true, you couldn’t have picked a better time to discover this remarkably effective approach to living comfortably off your investments. You can improve your quality of life and secure the latter years just by following my simple guidance and rules.
I’m NOT asking for a long-term commitment today.