Recent content by DAB456

Interesting journey/observations. Gainesville is attempting to redevelop its historic districts. Redevelopment-Community Development Department-City Of Gainesville, Florida They are fixing up houses and auctioning them w/ a $25K mort. forgiveness if you live there 10 yrs.

Isn't it a lot easier to let somebody else do it with a closed end fund? Like NFJ or ETW. I think some of them are also managed to produce favorable tax rates.

Check out : Water Utilities Overview: Industry Center - Yahoo! Finance. There's an argument to be made for consolidation which is what Aqua America is doing. I owned the Claymore ETF (CGW) for a year and it did nothing. PHO has done better. Perhaps premature for this commodity.

The London Interbank Offered Rate (or LIBOR, pronounced /ˈlaɪbɔr/) is a daily reference rate based on the interest rates at which banks offer to lend unsecured funds to other banks in the London wholesale money market (or interbank market). It's now used to set many rates including...

There is value in some segments of the credit markets. Not Treasuries or TIPS. Junk and its sub-segment leverage loans are attractive as spreads have widened and very high default rates have been factored into prices. Given the yield curve I think anything but the shortest maturities is...

Consider Floating Rate Bank Loan funds. After years of stable NAV they were whacked in Aug and Mar. In theory there is no interest rate risk because they float with LIBOR. Credit risk perception fueled the decline even though they are ahead of other debt in a default. Fidelity has the best...

Left FLL in 2005. Cashed out in Coral Ridge and moved to GA. I'm considering returning to GVN next year. Also spent 2 yrs there in early 80s. It's hotter in the summer than FLL. Age distribution is bi-modal -- middle aged missing. But more people are retiring there. I live in college town now...