electric utilities

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  For Bonds in 2013, Many Unhappy Returns: Fixed Income Analysts

  By Joyce Hanson, AdvisorOne  |  December 27, 2012

  The fiscal cliff, an accommodative Fed and slow economy will conspire to push yields down, say analysts with Loomis Sayles, LPL, Morgan Stanley and more.

• Dividend Increases Hit the Mark

  By Mark Agnew  |  September 25, 2012

  The shareholder-owned electric utility industry added to its eight-year-long trend of widespread dividend increases in Q2.

• Generating Strong Returns

  By Ed McCarthy, CFP  |  September 25, 2012

  Despite the overall market’s swings from risk-on to risk-off in response to a slow U.S. recovery, Europe’s ongoing crisis and the Fed’s decision to hold rates at extraordinarily low levels, electric utilities have continued to provide solid total returns for growth-and-income investors seeking lower volatility.

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  Romney or Obama? LPL and FSI Polls Disagree

  By Joyce Hanson, AdvisorOne  |  August 14, 2012

  As the presidential race heats up with Mitt Romney’s choice of Paul Ryan as his running mate, polls from FSI and LPL have reached vastly different conclusions about who will win.

• Powerful Potential

  By Ed McCarthy, CFP  |  March 26, 2012

  Public Service Enterprise Group (PEG) / Southern Company (SO)

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  Energy Market Imbalance Could Transform Entire Industries

  By Jason Benowitz, CFA, Roosevelt Investments  |  January 13, 2012

  In the last five years, the spread between oil and gas prices has materially widened, which potentially has far-reaching effects across a value chain that touches industries including energy, utilities, chemicals and transportation, not to mention geopolitics.

• Dividend Achievers: Income and Growth for Any Market Environment

  By Ed McCarthy, CFP  |  July 26, 2011