Tuesday, June 19, 2007

Income Investing Today - new book

Income investing is becoming a more popular subject. I just found another hardcover book devoted to it in the bookstore today -- Income Investing Today by Richard Lehman. I've got it on order from Amazon and can't wait to read.

Obviously there are many people looking for an alternative place to put their money besides a passbook account in a bank or chasing "growth" stocks that often don't grow - or which soon pop like a balloon.

My only concern is that, from flipping through it, it's obvious that he comes from a fixed income background -- although he prefers to avoid that phrase -- and so focuses on various securities besides dividend-paying stocks. This puts your portfolio at risk from inflation.

Still, it takes dividend-paying stocks years to catch up and then surpass the higher fixed income securities, and money in the present and near-term is worth more than a money in later years.