regulated utilities

• 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.

• Steady Streams

  By Jane Wollman Rusoff  |  April 25, 2012

  An unusual — and stunning — thing happened on the way out of the financial crisis: In 2009, the United States became the world’s largest producer of natural gas.

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  Buffett Backs Fink on Controversial Allocation Advice

  By John Sullivan, AdvisorOne  |  February 9, 2012

  Calling bonds “among the most dangerous of assets,” Buffett's sentiment adds credence to BlackRock Chairman Larry Fink’s controversial advice from Wednesday that investors should allocate 100% of their assets to equities.