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Robert Isbitts

Founder,

Sungarden Investment Publishing

About Robert

Robert Isbitts is the founder of Sungarden Investment Publishing (SungardenInvestment.com) and creator of the YARP™ tactical dividend investing approach. A serial investment myth-buster and educator, Mr. Isbitts applies his more than 30 years of hands-on investing experience to dissect the market with a common-sense approach for his audience. He is also an active contributor at etf.com and Seeking Alpha. Before semi-retiring in 2020 to focus on investment research and education, he spent 27 years as an investment advisor and is three-time fund manager.


Robert's Articles

If there were ever a time to throw out a lot of the traditional approaches to investment analysis, this is it. At least for a week or so. The US presidential election is squarely on the brains of investors. Plus, there are plenty of other stimuli, notes Robert Isbitts, founder of Sungarden Investment Publishing.
How big could this US Dollar decline story get? Pretty dang huge! Right now it is risk. Unrealized risk. Like unrealized return, the dollar is slipping but the downward move has not truly “cashed in” yet. I keep seeing signs it could. Meanwhile, I like the Invesco S&P 500 High Dividend Low Volatility ETF (SPHD) here, advises Robert Isbitts, editor of ETFYourself.
As a long-time baseball fan, I know a lot of the classic expressions around that sport. One comes to mind when I look back at what has transpired in the stock market recently: Every time you go to a ballgame, you see something you’ve never seen before. Meanwhile, I recently reviewed the iShares MSCI Emerging Markets ETF (EEM) and said it was “what a strong chart looks like,” observes Robert Isbitts, editor of ETFYourself.
I am not a “gold bug” but I will admit to being bugged by gold. That is, all of the attention it gets based on a reputation. I think that like Bitcoin, meme stocks, and wildly-overvalued mega cap stocks, there’s one reason to own gold: Because others are buying it and lifting the price, which can create short-to-intermediate-term profits for me in things like the SPDR Gold Shares ETF (GLD), writes Robert Isbitts, editor of ETFYourself.com.

Robert's Videos

Many traditional approaches to dividend investing do not truly address the need for defense as part of the income investing equation.  Robert will introduce his proprietary research and development of a dividend stock selection process called YARP (Yield At a Reasonable Price). YARP prioritizes risk management and total return by identifying stocks with historically high dividend yields that are currently undervalued and have the potential for price appreciation. "Dividend" does not always mean "safe." YARP seeks to address that. He will review the process and history of YARP investing, which he used to manage stock portfolios and a mutual fund during his "past life" as an investment advisor. Now a full-time investment researcher and publisher, he will explain how investors use the YARP concept to deliver sufficient cash flow from dividend income, keep losses in a tolerable range, and develop their own repeatable, systematic total return investment process.

Investing keeps evolving, and exchange-traded funds (ETFs) are now an essential part of navigating modern markets. Veteran market strategist Rob Isbitts of ETFYourself.com teaches you about ETFs, why they are replacing mutual funds, and how to use them to create your own portfolios.