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Kelley Wright entered the financial services industry in 1984 as a stock broker, first with a private investment boutique in La Jolla and later with Dean Witter Reynolds. In 1990, he left the retail side of the industry for private portfolio management. In 2002, Mr. Wright succeeded Geraldine Weiss as the managing editor of the Investment Quality Trends newsletter as well as the chief investment officer and portfolio manager for IQ Trends Private Client. His commentaries have been published in Barron's, Forbes, BusinessWeek, Dow Jones MarketWatch, The Economist, and many other business and financial periodicals. Mr. Wright is an active speaker at trade shows and investment conferences, and is a frequent guest and contributor to radio and CNBC. He is the author of Dividends Still Don't Lie, which was published in February, 2010, by John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Kelley's Articles
Kelley Wright — dividend specialist and editor of Investment Quality Trends — highlights high quality, blue chip stocks trading at undervalued levels relative to their historical yields; here are two featured ideas from the utility sector.
Kelley Wright
UTILITIES
Northern Trust Corp. (NTRS) provides wealth management, asset servicing, asset management, and banking solutions to corporations, institutions, families, and individuals. The company was formed in 1971 and has a global presence, including offices in 25 US states and 23 other locations across Canada, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia-Pacific, notes Kelley Wright, editor of IQ Trends.
Kelley Wright
FINANCIALS
Tickers: NTRS
This has been a wild and wooly couple of market weeks. First, the Fed held pat on interest rates. But after badgering Jay Powell with the same question asked in myriad ways, he eventually caved and essentially told listeners what they wanted to hear. The markets went BOOM. But my thought is a topping process is underway, advises Kelley Wright, editor of IQ Trends.
Kelley Wright
STOCKS
Biases are part of the human condition, and our latest entry to the Timely Ten, the Unum Group (UNM), has been in the negative bias camp for quite some time. Now that it has risen up in the internal cash flow rankings, it is squarely on our radar screen. This is why we do the work, suggests Kelley Wright, editor of IQ Trends.
Kelley Wright
FINANCIALS
Tickers: UNM
Kelley's Videos
No, Kelley Wright is not talking politics. Since the introduction of QE into the markets in '08-'09, the markets, and therefore market participants, have enjoyed an environment where they have in large part been protected by the Fed monetarily and from the Congress fiscally. Inflation, the real kind in the real world, not the phony bologna stuff regurgitated by an intentionally obtuse media, is starting to show signs of emergence. The bond market, which has been AWOL since '08-'09, is starting to exhibit a heartbeat. In an inflationary, rising interest rate environment, active management, the ability to pick stocks that are high-quality and offer good value, will outperform passive indexing. In this workshop Kelley Wright will demonstrate the IQ Trends method of identifying high-quality stocks and when they offer good value.
Kelley Wright
STOCKS
33:40
No, Kelley Wright is not talking politics. Since the introduction of QE into the markets in '08-'09, the markets, and therefore market participants, have enjoyed an environment where they have in large part been protected by the Fed monetarily and from the Congress fiscally. Inflation, the real kind in the real world, not the phony bologna stuff regurgitated by an intentionally obtuse media, is starting to show signs of emergence. The bond market, which has been AWOL since '08-'09, is starting to exhibit a heartbeat. In an inflationary, rising interest rate environment, active management, the ability to pick stocks that are high-quality and offer good value, will outperform passive indexing. In this workshop Kelley Wright will demonstrate the IQ Trends method of identifying high-quality stocks and when they offer good value.
Kelley Wright
STOCKS
34:50
The key to successful investing in the stock market is to minimize the downside risk and maximize the upside potential. In real-world terms we want to own low-risk and sell high-risk. This requires the ability to properly identify high-quality and real economic value, then let time take its course. In this workshop with Kelley Wright, you will learn how to identify stocks that you dont have to worry about, even if Wall Street was closed for five years and then reopened.
Kelley Wright
STOCKS
30:20
In this low-interest-rate environment, safe and ample income streams are truly invaluablealso much harder to come by. Retirees in search of dependable income streams have to consider alternative strategies that go beyond stocks and bonds. This discussion will explore how you can supplement income from traditional fixed-income investments with durable income from sources such as REITs that offer solid yields, without taking on uncomfortably higher levels of risk.
Kelley Wright
INCOME
34:35
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Kelley Wright
Dividends Still Don't Lie
Written by Kelley Wright, Managing Editor of Investment Quality Trends, with a new Foreword by Geraldine Weiss, this book teaches a value-based strategy to investing, one that uses a stock's dividend yield as the primary measure of value. Rather than
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Investment Quality Trends
One of the most long-lived of all investment newsletters, Investment Quality Trends has been making money for its subscribers since 1966, following the wonderfully old-fashioned idea that one should purchase the top dividend-paying stocks when the dividend yield is historically high, sell when the dividend yield declines to historic lows and completely avoid stocks which pay no dividend at all.
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