In the summer of 1944, with the war in Europe not yet won, the United States convened 44 nations at a resort hotel in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, and wrote the rules of the postwar world. The dollar ...

Have you ever heard of Succession Risk? It occurs when key leaders of a company leave their position—whether expected or ...

In 1712, an ironmonger named Thomas Newcomen built a machine in Dudley, England that changed the world. Not immediately. Not obviously.

PFE’s quarterly dividend payment is $0.43. That makes its payout ratio 91% or 57% depending on which figure you use.

Earlier this month, I headed from Virginia to Florida on the Amtrak auto train. I highly recommend this option instead of driving down I-95. On my way back to the DC area, the sleeper cabins and ...

One of the things I’ve learned after more than two decades of SIC is that the conference doesn’t really end when the final session wraps up. In some ways, that’s when the real work begins. It’s ...

This is the Strategic Investment Conference week, and I and our attendees are drinking through a fire hose. There have been some surprises that we will go into as I start reviewing the SIC next week, ...

It’s a weird time to be a dividend investor. Dividend stocks are a great defense when there’s fear in the air. Inflation fears are real with energy-driven price increases front and center. These ...

I started in the financial publishing industry as a “temp” back in 2011. I spent my first week learning about the industry, and the writing style and routine of my assigned senior editor—the income ...

I’ve been traveling for a week, reading and talking to a lot of readers and friends. It seems to me there is a great deal of angst in the media and newsletters and podcasts. And the more bearish you ...

In 1989, the first Dividend Aristocrats list was published. At the time it was just a curated list of twenty companies that had increased their dividends for 25 consecutive years. Fast forward to 2002 ...