Sunday, November 11, 2012

Millionaires chase returns, storm into stocks




What’s keeping the markets up in a down economy?  The “super rich,” according to a NY Post report on a battery of new studies, as they find that stocks are the best investment in a time of low interest rates.

“The ultra-wealthy are looking for yield, and right now the average yield of a S&P 500 stock is over twice the average on a two-year CD,” financial adviser Ron Weiner told The Post.

“If you are just looking for some kind of dividend that pays more that a fixed-income CD, that search would drive you into buying relatively conservative stocks,” added Weiner, founder and CEO of RDM Financial Group.  “There are plenty of these kind of stocks in traditional, safe-yielding companies like AT&T, Johnson & Johnson and IBM,” he said….

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