Ben Carlson

A Wealth of Common Sense is a personal finance blog that focuses on financial planning, investments, markets and investor psychology. You can use your common sense to help create a comprehensive financial plan. Ben Carlson, CFA helps manage the investment portfolio for an endowment fund and has been developing institutional investment strategies since 2005.

Shareholder Yield, A Better Approach to Dividend Investing – Book Review

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The following is a guest post from Ben Carlson at A Wealth of Common Sense.  Ben writes about personal finance, investments, investor psychology and using your common sense to build wealth. [easyazon_image add_to_cart=”default” align=”left” asin=”B00CRLSL4W” cloaking=”default” height=”auto” localization=”default” locale=”CA” nofollow=”default” new_window=”default” src=”http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51JBj5Xm-9L.jpg” tag=”divninjaca-20″ width=”230″][easyazon_link asin=”B00CRLSL4W” locale=”CA” new_window=”default” nofollow=”default” tag=”divninjaca-20″ add_to_cart=”default” cloaking=”default” localization=”default” popups=”default”]Shareholder Yield: A Better Approach to Dividend Investing[/easyazon_link]by Mebane Faber, answers one of the most often asked questions in investing today – “Where do I find yield”? Academic research on the topic of dividend investing is fairly well-known at this point (especially to loyal Dividend Ninja readers).  Dividends make …

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The Risks of High Yielding Investments that Investors Need to Know

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The following is a guest post from Ben Carlson at A Wealth of Common Sense. Ben writes about personal finance, investments, investor psychology and using your common sense to manage your money.  You can follow him on Twitter (@awealthofcs). If you missed part one of my series on rising interest rates, please read What Happens to Bonds When Interest Rates Rise. Rising Interest Rates Affect on High Yield Investments Rising interest rates are a hot topic in the ever changing investment landscape these days. Historically low rates have forced investors to prepare for the inevitable rate increase. And, this is especially …

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What Happens to Bonds When Interest Rates Rise?

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The following is a guest post from Ben Carlson at A Wealth of Common Sense. Ben writes about personal finance, investments, investor psychology and using your common sense to manage your money. If you’d like to write a guest post, check out our guest posting guidelines. Don’t Try to Predict Interest Rate Movements There is one recommendation that I received early in my wealth management career that has served me well: do not try to predict interest rates. There are way too many moving parts involved. To predict interest rates you must try to decide whether we will see inflation …

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