Stock market crash protection is offered by a unique bond investment and real estate investment trusts (REITs) for investors seeking to avoid correlation with major equity indexes.
These investments feature a bond that offers an 8.5 percent annual return for a seven-year commitment, as well as two REITs that focus on hotel and apartment properties, respectively. With the stock market in the midst of its longest and biggest bull market ever, it is understandable that investors may wonder and worry when the climb will end, especially with the spread of the deadly coronavirus to 36 other countries around the world from its origin in Wuhan, China.
GWG Holdings, Inc. (Nasdaq: GWGH), a Minneapolis-based financial services holding company, owns a large, actuarially diverse portfolio of life insurance policies from “highly rated life insurance companies” through its subsidiary GWG Life. The holding company also has a strategic investment in the Beneficient Company Group, L.P. (BEN) which helps to provide liquidity to people who have life insurance policies and are willing to sell the benefits at a discount to obtain near- and long-term income during their lives.
Paul Dykewicz interviews Bob Carlson (left), who chairs the Board of Trustees of Virginia’s Fairfax County Employees’ Retirement System and leads the Retirement Watch advisory service.
Paul Dykewicz gathers investment tips from Hilary Kramer, whose advisory services include 2-Day Trader, Turbo Trader,High Octane Trader, Value Authority and Inner Circle.
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Paul Dykewicz, www.pauldykewicz.com, is an accomplished, award-winning journalist who has written for Dow Jones, the Wall Street Journal, Investor’s Business Daily, USA Today, the Journal of Commerce, Seeking Alpha, GuruFocus and other publications and websites. Paul is the editor of StockInvestor.com and DividendInvestor.com, a writer for both websites and a columnist. He further is the editorial director of Eagle Financial Publications in Washington, D.C., where he edits monthly investment newsletters, time-sensitive trading alerts, free e-letters and other investment reports. Paul previously served as business editor of Baltimore’s Daily Record newspaper. Paul also is the author of an inspirational book, “Holy Smokes! Golden Guidance from Notre Dame’s Championship Chaplain,” with a foreword by former national championship-winning football coach Lou Holtz.The book is endorsed by Joe Montana, Joe Theismann, Ara Paseghian, “Rocket” Ismail, Reggie Brooks, Dick Vitale and many others. Follow Paul on Twitter @PaulDykewicz.
