raising4daughters

How Wall Street Has Failed the Individual Investor

All we need for the next bull market to begin is for more weak hands to say "Yeah, I sold everything in <fill in the blank>. I couldn't take it anymore". If people wait until Dow 14,000 to get back in, they will have missed 80-100% of the next bull market (assuming we don't go below Dow 7,000)

That said, Wall Street has failed us. Our money managers should (and I think will in the future) insist on a far greater payoff to investors.

The new statistic I'm watching is the Exec Comp / Dividend ratio. Too many companies have been paying hundreds of millions to its executives while paying no dividends to its owners. Heck, the dividend yield on the S&P 500 (supposedly Blue Chip stocks) got down to, what, 1%?

Wall Street money managers should've been demanding more.