These four fund managers’ secret to success: Don’t go with your gut on stocks

Are you the type of investor who goes with your gut or follows the herd? Or do you deliberate, considering a company from all angles — even trying to find the flaws in your own thinking? Taking the extra time can help you improve the performance of your investments. This recent article by Charlie Bilello provides plenty of food for thought, using two-year stock charts for McDonald’s Corp. MCD, +0.47%  and Chipotle Mexican Grill Inc. CMG, -0.07%  as examples. The two stocks have taken divergent paths in that span: Hardly anybody predicted that Chipotle would suffer so badly — and for so long — from the food-safety problems that began in July 2015. Remember that, before Chipotle’s decline, many

More than half of these high-yield dividend stocks are on sale

Dividend-paying stocks that have gotten left behind in the rally now feature higher dividend yields, which may be attractive to investors. But buyer beware: Many yields are high because some investors fear the stocks. But if you do extra research on specific companies and reach a certain comfort level, you may be looking at some bargains. Long-time income investors are constantly facing the problem of how to replace income lost when older and higher-yielding bonds and callable preferred stocks are redeemed. And more than eight years into the bull market, while interest rates are still historically low, the problem keeps getting worse. We have featured the S&P High-Yield Dividend Aristocrats,

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