Re: Should having a pension effect our asset allocation? + MORE

momar wrote:Dont count it as part of your allocation, but do use it to reduce the amount of income you need to generate from your portfolio.This is what I do and what I believe to be the best strategy. My pension is not really like a lump of bonds; it is extremely volatile in how much income it is going to produce, based upon what happens over the next 30 years (where I am employed, what my salary is in the intervening years, when I choose to retire, when I choose to begin drawing from the pension)…

These five companies are moving in the right direction on the bottom line.

Tesla Motors (NASDAQ:TSLA) has had a rocky run since its IPO in July 2010. The first shares of Tesla stock were offered at $17, popped to $19 the first day of trading and soared as high as $35 by November 2010. But since then it has been a wild ride with many plunges and recoveries in TSLA stock, but no momentum sticking for long either way…

April 1 (Bloomberg) — Tim Lesko, principal and partner at
Granite Investment Advisors Inc., and Bloomberg West editor at
large Cory Johnson, discuss technology companies Apple Inc. and
Blackberry. Lesko and Johnson talk with Bloomberg’s Pimm Fox and
Vonnie Quinn on Bloomberg Radio’s “Taking Stock…

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On the back of a solid first-quarter performance capped with an all-time nominal (nominal) high, stocks opened flat this morning, with the S&P 500 down 0.2% and the narrower, price-weighted Dow Jones Industrial Average up 0.04% as of 10:10 a.m. EDT.
Netflix: Two thumbs up The best-performing stock in the S&P 500 during the first quarter was that of movie platform Netflix , which more than doubled:

NFLX data by YCharts…