Adam Fischbaum brings more than 20 years of professional investment experience as financial advisor and portfolio manager. Affiliated with an NYSE-member firm, he specializes in value, income and macro thematic investing. Adam is also a contributing editor for Yieldpig.com and his work is published frequently on TheStreet.com, BusinessInsdider.com, as well, Seeking Alpha and TalkMarkets.com. He currently holds a Series 7, 63, 65, and 31 license. Adam lives on the Gulf Coast with his wife and two sons. When he’s not running money or writing about it, he enjoys hunting and fishing.
Utility stocks can best be described as the four-door, mid-sized sedan of equity investing: boring.... Read More
Utility stocks can best be described as the four-door, mid-sized sedan of equity investing: boring. Nothing sexy about them — they get you from point A to point B. Investors own utilities for... Read More
The French are funny. They smoke cigarettes while riding bicycles. They hail Jerry Lewis as a... Read More
The French are funny. They smoke cigarettes while riding bicycles. They hail Jerry Lewis as a filmmaking genius. My favorite scene in Monty Python and the Holy Grail is when King Arthur and his men... Read More
I had a manager at a firm I used work with. This guy had been in the investment racket for what... Read More
I had a manager at a firm I used work with. This guy had been in the investment racket for what seems like forever. He was always available to give young brokers advice on stock selection. He would... Read More
As the U.S. wireless telecom backbone has evolved since its infancy of the late 1990s, the game,... Read More
As the U.S. wireless telecom backbone has evolved since its infancy of the late 1990s, the game, save for a few minor players, has been dominated by two companies: AT&T (NYSE: T) and Verizon... Read More
As equity markets grind higher and investors complain about the absence of value, they continue to... Read More
As equity markets grind higher and investors complain about the absence of value, they continue to flock toward cheap and efficient exchange-traded funds (ETFs). Money directed to equity ETFs grew... Read More
Recently, I had to take an exam for yet another license my industry requires me to have. Aside from... Read More
Recently, I had to take an exam for yet another license my industry requires me to have. Aside from feeling like I’d given birth to a compliance officer afterwards, I came away from the... Read More
For the past three years, I’ve driven an SUV and a pickup. I got an unbelievable deal on the... Read More
For the past three years, I’ve driven an SUV and a pickup. I got an unbelievable deal on the pickup (I always buy used), but it needed new tires. When I took the truck to the friendly... Read More
Market observers like to refer to companies involved in mature or dying industries as “buggy... Read More
Market observers like to refer to companies involved in mature or dying industries as “buggy whip” companies. What is commonly overlooked is that many of these companies, despite their... Read More
During a bull market, you can just about set your watch to individual investors being fashionably... Read More
During a bull market, you can just about set your watch to individual investors being fashionably late. Institutional money is always early to the party. They must be per their investment mandates.... Read More