What is Investing? Investing is giving your money to someone else who is going to make better use of it than you can to produce goods, build buildings, do research or otherwise create wealth. Then, at some later date, this person or corporation is going to give your money back, along with a share of […]

TJX announced a 2 for 1 split and Steve Madden Ltd. announced a 3 for 2 split this morning. Could this be a reawakening on the part of Boards of Directors to the benefits of this simple signal regarding their confidence in the prospects for their companies. 2-for-1.com will look at these stocks next month

22 Years ago, almost to the day (7/31/1996), I took $50K from my IRA account and created the 2 for 1 model portfolio. No money has been added or withdrawn from that Roth IRA since that date. Today the portfolio crossed the half-million dollar mark for the first time. That’s an 11%+ annualized return. The

The 2 for 1 portfolio is outperforming the broad market by a wide margin so far this year. I use the Vanguard 500 Index fund as a benchmark because of its great popularity as the core holding for so many main street investors. As of 6/30 it’s VG +2.1%, 2 for 1 +7.9%

Mark Hulbert, the guy who knows more about investment newsletters than anyone on the planet, has written another complementary article about the 2 for 1 strategy.