| Owner, CEO | |
| Retirement Ready Income Portfolio | |
| May 2014 - Present (5 years 11 months) | |
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Steve reviews portfolios for "retirement readiness", and when asked to do so, brings them into a position to produce more income than is required by the retiree. Note, that this is rarely possible unless the work is begun years in advance of the expected retirement date. |
| President/ Investment Manager | |
| Sanco Services, Inc. | |
| September 1979 - Present (41 years 1 month) | |
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Steve manages individual investment portfolios for more than 120 individuals and businesses. He uses a Market Cycle Investment process that he developed nearly 40 years ago and that he's been refining ever since. Steve thinks in terms of market, interest rate, and economic cycles as opposed to calendar years, and focuses on the productivity of the assets in a portfolio, as opposed to day to day changes in their market values. |
| The Brainwashing of the American Investor: The Book That Wall Street Does Not Want You to Read! | |
| Steve Selengut | |
| W & A Publishing | |
| 06/20/2007 | |
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"The Brainwashing of the American Investor" is an expose' of the conflicts of interest that plague Wall Street. From stock analysts to retail brokers, no cow is too sacred for this scathing and informative investigation of the Wall Street culture and the financial pros who dwell there. What you discover will give you a whole new understanding of investment product pitfalls, and a totally new, objective based perspective for designing, creating, and managing your personal investment portfolio. |
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...lower stock prices are a cyclical fact of life, an opportunity to add to positions at lower prices. There need be no panic selling in high quality holdings, and no flight to 1% Treasuries from 6% tax free Munis... dividends and income keep rolling, providing income for retirees, college kids, and golf trips ---
How To Be Prepared For Rising Interest Rates
The purpose of income investments is the generation of income. You are not a bond trader... Control the quality selected, diversify properly, and compound that part of the income that you don't have to spend. Price is pretty much irrelevant; you can't pay the bills with market value.
One Person’s Bond Crash Is Another’s Income Opportunity
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Is Your Investment Portfolio Prepared For Higher Interest Rates?
Actually, the financial crisis was the only time that the CEFs "crashed" almost along with the stock market... they typically fall quite a bit less, get "discovered", and rise more quickly than the averages in the recovery.... Investment Grade Value Stocks also outperform the general market in terms of both drawdown and initial comeback.....
I use CEFs to DEVELOP an income program either as part of every portfolio or all of a retirement portfolio... a lower price most often (in my experience) is simply an opportunity to increase yield and decrease cost basis per share in one fell swoop.
Ironically, as a professional, I'm not permitted to give direct advice in a forum like this, or specifics...but as a general rule, it's best to treat income CEFs as income purpose securities regardless of what people think the "future" will bring.
The Investment Gods Are Furious
...lower stock prices are a cyclical fact of life, an opportunity to add to positions at lower prices. There need be no panic selling in high quality holdings, and no flight to 1% Treasuries from 6% tax free Munis... dividends and income keep rolling, providing income for retirees, college kids, and golf trips --- regardless of what the security market values are doing.
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