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10 stocks to own for the long term
Buy and forget is not a viable strategy in a volatile market. But with periodic tweaking, a portfolio can capitalize on long-term global trends.
Ten long-term picks for 2013? In this market? You've got to be kidding. There's just too much volatility.
Precisely. Which is why long-term investing can make sense in this market. All that volatility can give you opportunities to buy great long-term stocks when everybody else is -- for the moment -- running for the hills.
But . . . and it's an important "but" . . . the kind of long-term investing I'm talking about isn't buy and forget. It's not even exactly like traditional buy and hold.
I'd call it buy rarely and sell seldom. But do pay attention to the potential for wild swings in a market ruled by central bank cash flows.
I don't think it matters a whole lot whether you use something as traditional as dollar-cost averaging or a more complex system of market timing. The key is to find stocks of good companies that are positioned to ride trends of 10 years or more. You buy more shares when the companies are out of favor. You sell completely when the company shows signs of losing its way or when the trend itself changes.
If you want to increase your potential returns, you can sell partial or entire positions when the fundamentals say a stock is overvalued or when technical analysis says momentum is fading.
This is the system behind my December 2008 book "The Jubak Picks" (still available from places like Amazon.com and Powell's Books (powells.com). Since January 2009, I've run a portfolio built on this system. Every year, I've done an update, buying five new stocks and selling five old picks out of the 50-stock portfolio.
The update for 2013 is a little late this year -- May 3 -- but in this column you'll find this year's five buys and five sells.
Jim Jubak
Extreme market volatility
And you'll find something a little different too -- a continuation and extension of something that I introduced into the portfolio in January 2012. In that update I not only gave my five buys and five sells -- but also picked the five stocks from the portfolio that I thought would perform best in 2012. In essence I created a list of 10 long-term buys for the year out of the larger 50 stock long-term portfolio.
In this piece you'll find my 10-long-terms buys (five new buys and five picks from the existing portfolio) for 2013.
Before I go into a summary of this system and the specific buys and sells, let me give you some performance numbers. After all, why pay any attention to this system if the results are terrible?
For the life of that total portfolio -- that's the whole 50 stocks, taking into account annual revisions -- the Jubak Picks 50 has returned 64.4%. That trails the 72.3% return on the Standard & Poor's 500 Index ($INX). The problem? The kind of volatility that has driven so many long-term investors either to other strategies or out of the market completely.
In 2011 commodity prices tanked, and that took the Jubak Picks 50 down, too. The return on the portfolio that year was a loss of 18.6% against a gain for the S&P 500 of 2.1%.
It was exactly that volatility that drove me in January 2012 to create and track an annual portfolio of 10 long-term picks from the larger portfolio. Since the beginning of the Jubak's Picks 50, I'd been advocating that investors occasionally buy and sell inside that larger portfolio, depending on market conditions. But I hadn't given any specific picks to help guide the transactions.
In January 2012, I did. The return on that portfolio of five new buys and five best picks from the existing portfolio came to 16.6% in 2012. That slightly beat the 16% return on the S&P 500 for the year, and it hands-down beat the 6.6% return for the Jubak Picks 50 as a whole.
So with that setup, let's get down to the portfolio and the 10 long-term picks for 2013.
I'm not going to rehash the strategy behind the Jubak Picks 50 here. In a nutshell, the idea was to see if a buy-and-hold-ish strategy would pay even in times of extreme stock-market volatility.
Picking the trends
The premise of my book was that by picking trends with long life spans (10 years or more) -- such as the growing demand for food and especially protein as developing economies get richer -- a buy and hold investor could beat the market even if the individual picks used to buy into those trends were sometimes clunkers.
Because markets and companies do change, I'd tweak the portfolio once a year. But not with a very big tweak. I'd sell no more than 10% of the portfolio (five stocks) and buy no more than 10% (five stocks) of the portfolio. For more detail on how the portfolio is built you can see last year's post or dig up a used copy of my book.
In the January 2012 revision, I dropped Central European Distribution (CEDCQ), Deltic Timber (DEL), Encana (ECA), First Solar (FSLR) and Kinross Gold (KGC). The 2012 results for those stocks were, respectively, -50.4%, +17.4%, +11%, -8.6% and -13.3%. The average loss for those five drops was 8.8%.
In the January 2012 revision, I added Home Inns and Hotels Management (HMIN), Lynas (LYSDY), Pioneer Natural Resources (PXD), Weyerhaeuser (WY) and Yamana Gold (AUY). The 2012 results for those added stocks were, respectively, +12%, -43%, +19.2%, +52.3% and +18.8%. The average gain was 11.9%.
Finally, in the January 2012 revision, I picked five stocks from the portfolio that, in my opinion, would be the best performers of 2012. They included Cemex (CX), Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold (FCX), General Cable (BGC), Gol Linhas Aereas Inteligentes (GOL) and Potash of Saskatchewan (POT). The 2012 results for those picks were, respectively, +90.4%, -3.8%, +21.6%, -1.1% and -0.1%. The average gain was 21.4%.
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Traditional Irish Soda Bread Recipes
All recipes for traditional soda bread contain flour, baking soda, sour milk (buttermilk) and salt. That's it!!!
This was a daily bread that didn't keep long and had to be baked every few days. It was not a festive "cake" and did not contain whisky, candied fruit, caraway seeds, raisins (add raisins and it becomes "spotted dog" not to be confused with the pudding made with suet of the same name), or any other ingredient.
There are recipes for those types of cakes but they are not the traditional soda bread eaten by the Irish daily since the mid 19th century.
Here are a few basic recipe. Note that measurements below are in American standards. (An Irish teaspoon is not the same as an American teaspoon measurement.)
Note for New Bakers: a fluid cup contains 8 ounces of liquid. A dry ingredient cup contains around 4 ounces by weight. Don't use a liquid measuring cup for dry ingredients. Tsp means Teaspoon.
Of course our great grandmothers just grabbed a handful of this and a pinch of that to make their bread. We modern bakers need help since we don't do it every day.
The best flour to use is "soft wheat" which is called "pastry flour" or "cake flour" today in the US. If you want to try using Irish flour, may I suggest Odlums.
In 1845, about the time that soda bread baking was taking off in Ireland, William Odlum opened a four mill in Portlaoise and his descendants expanded the business over the years until 1988 when it was purchased by a corporation that continues production today. They produce not only the white and wheat flours, but for the modern Irish family, a soda bread mix flour and brown bread mix flour that only needs water added to create a soda bread dough.
The latter mixes are similar to what I create using Saco Cultured buttermilk, flour, baking soda, and salt to create my own "add water" mix for camping trips.
If you want to try using Odlums flour, you can purchase it by clicking on this link. Your purchase helps keep this web site up and running and you will be baking with real Irish flour. for what we are attempting to create here, avoid the self-Raising flour and not that "cream flour" means just regular white flour. No baking soda or baking powder added to it.
Check out the Dutch Oven Link for more cooking hints.
Brown Bread
3 cups (12
oz) of wheat flour
1 cup (4 oz) of white flour (do not use self-rising as it already contains baking powder and salt)
14 ounces of buttermilk (pour in a bit at a time until the dough is moist)
1 teaspoon of salt
1 1/2 teaspoon of bicarbonate of soda.
2 ounces of butter if you want to deviate a bit.
Preheat the oven to 425 F. degrees. Lightly grease and flour a cake pan. In a large bowl sieve and combine all the dry ingredients. Rub in the butter until the flour is crumbly.
Add the buttermilk to form a sticky dough. Place on floured surface and lightly knead (too much allows the gas to escape)
Shape into a round flat shape in a round cake pan and cut a cross in the top of the dough.
Cover the pan with another pan and bake for 30 minutes (this simulates the bastible pot). Remove cover and bake for an additional 15 minutes.
The bottom of the bread will have a hollow sound when tapped to show it is done.
Cover the bread in a tea towel and lightly sprinkle water on the cloth to keep the bread moist.
Let cool and you are ready to have a buttered slice with a nice cup of tea or coffee.
White Soda Bread
4 cups (16 oz) of all purpose flour.
1 Teaspoon baking soda
1 Teaspoon salt
14 oz of buttermilk
Preheat the oven to 425 F. degrees. Lightly crease and flour a cake pan.
In a large bowl sieve and combine all the dry ingredients.
Add the buttermilk to form a sticky dough. Place on floured surface and lightly knead (too much allows the gas to escape)
Shape into a round flat shape in a round cake pan and cut a cross in the top of the dough.
Cover the pan with another pan and bake for 30 minutes (this simulates the bastible pot). Remove cover and bake for an additional 15 minutes.
The bottom of the bread will have a hollow sound when tapped so show it is done.
Cover the bread in a tea towel and lightly sprinkle water on the cloth to keep the bread moist.
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One of my favorite Irish cookbooks is by Monica Sheridan, the Julia Child of Irish Television, called "The Art of Irish Cooking" published in 1965. It has been long out-of-print but if you get a chance to grab a copy, do so. She talks about traditional cooking without any of the "spicing up" that we see in modern interpretations of Irish baking although she does experiment a bit with recipes. Here is her recipe for "Brown Bread"
4 cups Stone
2 cups White flour
1 1/2 tsp Baking soda
1 1/2 tsp Salt
2 cups Buttermilk
Mix the whole
wheat flour thoroughly with the white flour, salt, and baking soda.
Make a well in the center and gradually mix in the liquid. Stir with a wooden spoon. You may need less, or more liquid - it depends on the absorbent quality of the flour.
The dough should be soft but manageable. Knead the dough into a ball in the mixing bowl with your floured hands. Put on a lightly floured baking sheet and with the palm of your hand flatten out in a circle 1 1/2 inches thick.
With a knife dipped in flour, make a cross through the center of the bread so that it will easily break into quarters when it is baked. Bake at 425 degrees for 25 minutes, reduce the heat to 350 degrees and bake a further 15 minutes. If the crust seems too hard, wrap the baked bread in a damp tea cloth. Leave the loaf standing upright until it is cool. The bread should not be cut until it has set - about 6 hours after it comes out of the oven. (personally, I can't wait 6 hours to eat fresh soda bread
OK! If you gotten this far down and are still feeling uneasy about making soda bread, there is one last trick you can try: Imported Irish Soda Bread already mixed and ready to bake. Just add water. Click on the flour bag that looks like an Owl. That's Odlum's Brown Bread Mix. Then Go to Baking Needs on the upper left. It's as close to traditional as you can get without going to the extra trouble. Enjoy!
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- Studio: Warner Bros. Pictures
- Release Date: Oct 15, 2010
- Starring: Bryce Dallas Howard, Cécile De France, Matt Damon
- Summary: Hereafter tells the story of three people who are touched by death in different ways. George is a blue-collar American who has a special connection to the afterlife. On the other side of the world, Marie, a French journalist, has a near-death experience that shakes her reality. And when Marcus, a London schoolboy, loses the person closest to him, he desperately needs answers. Each on a path in search of the truth, their lives will intersect, forever changed by what they believe might--or must--exist in the hereafter. (Warner Bros. Pictures)… Expand
- Director: Clint Eastwood
- Genre(s): Drama, Thriller, Fantasy
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Score distribution:
Positive: 17 out of 42
Mixed: 21 out of 42
Negative: 4 out of 42
What's much more fascinating and enriching is Eastwood's Olympian vision, the sympathetic and all-encompassing understanding of the pain and grandeur of life on earth.
Eastwood and Morgan's movie, with its epic natural disasters (and a terrifying, man-made one) is optimistic. Hokey, even. But it's beautiful, too.
A multi-character melodrama about the supernatural that's affecting both in spite of and because of its flaws.
It's the first boring performance of Damon's career, although the bland inertia may not be his fault. The way Eastwood stages the "readings," they hold no terror for George.
Hereafter is a consistently identifiable Clint Eastwood movie only in the sense that the prolific filmmaker shows that he still has the ability to confound our expectations of him.
When an 80-year-old director turns his attention to death, you hope for some insight, or gravitas, or even whimsy or anger. Hereafter has none of that.
It doesn't help that Eastwood's laconic style is as torpid as it was in such misfires as "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil" and "Changeling."
Score distribution:
Positive: 40 out of 68
Mixed: 10 out of 68
Negative: 18 out of 68
Oct 16, 2010To be fair, this is a lousy movie, but its more interesting as a subconscious message from Clint Eastwood stating that when you hit 80 years old, suddenly accepting things like psychics and spirits provide a psychological comfort. Sometimes watching the personal issues of a filmmaker translate onto the screen is an delightful experience that makes good art. This is just not one of those times. Sorry Clint, this is a sour and ironic note to go out on if its you final film.… Expand
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Oct 25, 2010The tsunami that launches this film is simply riveting. It promises a masterful film experience that slowly falls apart and ends in a confusing, disappointing ending. The plots revolve around two people who have close experience with death and a reluctant psychic (Matt Damon). Their intensely personal struggles are absorbingâ… Expand
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Is there a reason why you want to use Spymemcached? We have a Java SDK that is built on top of Spymemcached and doesn't use moxi which lowers the latency of operations. The Java SDK can be found here:


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Share what you know now that you wish you'd known way back when or download the Girls for a Change Action Kit to become an agent for real social change in your community.
(P.S. Every time you share the facts, U By Kotex will donate* $1 to Girls for a Change)
On October 11th, as part of the International Day of the Girl, girl activists came together at the United Nations to discuss issues that are prevalent in their lives and then offered solutions! 6 inspiring girl activists presented the initiatives they've founded to spark change in their communities, on issues ranging from immigration to transportation. 50 girls in 17 countries submitted clips to be included in the beginning video compilation, and I Am Proud made the cut!
Check out the full webcast at the link above!
(Source: iamproudcampaign)
Hadiza Mohammed runs Women Rock Science, an organization that promotes and tells the stories of women and girls in science. She is an advocate not only for increasing the number of women and girls in STEM fields but also for reaching men and boys and getting them question the lack of female presence in their science books, awards ceremonies and workspaces…………read more
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Ready to wrap your head around shutter speeds, apertures, and shooting modes? Make the leap and take on the mysteries of Lightroom and Photoshop? Explore the basics of portraiture and studio lightinng? Or tackle the "digital image to final print" transformation process?
You gotta start somewhere, and our intro level workshops are the best of the best. Our instructors have outstanding skills and qualities, including boatloads of patience. And they were beginners once, too.
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Nikon D800: Getting The Most from Your Camera
November 10 - November 13, 2014
Get to know your D800 and get the most from the extensive imaging and video capabilities of this truly stellar camera.
CATEGORIES: The Basics
WHO SHOULD ATTEND: Amateurs, Advanced Amateurs
Basics of Digital Photography
November 3 - November 6, 2014
Master the fundamental skills you need to confidently photograph with a digital SLR or mirrorless camera.
CATEGORIES: The Basics
WHO SHOULD ATTEND: Beginners