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1 Stock I Wouldn't Touch With a 10-Foot Pole

The Motley Fool

Put a REIT into a tax-advantaged Roth account and you can avoid taxes altogether. A mortgage REIT like AGNC buys mortgages that have been pooled into bond-like securities, often referred to as something like a collateralized mortgage obligation (CMO). In some ways, a mortgage REIT is more like a mutual fund than a company.

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1 Stock I Wouldn't Touch With a 10-Foot Pole

The Motley Fool

There was an accounting scandal in the mix that I couldn't have known about, but that wasn't the only problem with buying an over-leveraged telecom company focused on the dying long-distance business. Mortgage REITs are way more complex, more akin to running a mutual fund.

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MicroStrategy (MSTR) Q1 2024 Earnings Call Transcript

The Motley Fool

Overall, 2024 started off as a tremendously successful year, taking into account our bitcoin purchases and appreciation of our bitcoin holdings year to date. Lastly, bitcoins purchased through excess cash from the software business are also held at MicroStrategy, the parent entity, and also collateralized our 2028 senior secured notes.

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Big Banks and Big Screens

The Motley Fool

Yet for Dune 2, I think right now it's the biggest blockbuster the year, it accounted for 22% of the revenue for that movie, less than 1% of the screens, 22% of the revenue. This accounts for about 25% of the company's revenue. APY with a high yield cash account. This blew my mind. This came from their episode.

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William Bernstein Helps Investors Improve

The Motley Fool

If you're careful, there's no reason why you can't have an account at one of the big bad, old warehouses, let alone, Schwab or Fidelity, which you're just fine too. Collateralized loan obligations from the Great Recession of 2007-2009, part of it is what causes the booms and busts. William Bernstein: Exactly.

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Prudential Financial (PRU) Q2 2024 Earnings Call Transcript

The Motley Fool

businesses; Yanela Frias, chief financial officer; and Rob Axel, controller and principal accounting officer. Retail outflows of 600 million were driven by subadvised equity strategies and mutual funds and were partially offset by positive momentum in public fixed income. Institutional outflows of $8.9

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Blunt, unfiltered truth about Indexed Universal Life

Sara Grillo

Now… indexed universal life insurance is where a carrier takes a universal life product (as described above) and instead of paying a crediting rate to the policyholder (as they would in a fixed universal life policy), they take those earnings out of their general account and go out and buy call options. What is AG49?