DOLLARS AND SEN$E

Product vs. Process BY CHRIS HANLY Investment Consultant, Gary Goldberg Financial Services As the first quarter of 2012 comes to a close, Iโ€™ve been meeting with clients regularly to review their portfolios and discuss our results. Needless to say, thereโ€™s been a fair amount of smiling and sincere thanks. While we will certainly pat ourselves […]

DOLLARS and SEN$E

BY CHRIS HANLY Investment Consultant, Gary Goldberg Financial Services Noise on dividends and buybacks has reached an almost fevered pitch since Appleโ€˜s (AAPL) $100 billion cash hoard came to light. Accordingly, I thought some context and perspective on dividends and buybacks was in order. Some advisors, brokers, and investors believe that share-buyback programs are “alwaysโ€ […]

MOODY’S DOWNGRADES ROCKLAND AGAIN

The echoes of Legislator Alden Wolfe emphatically bellowing “Who says” the county hospital needs to break even are still ringing in the collective ears of Rocklanders and apparently those echoes were also picked up by the evaluators over at Moody’s Investors Service, who’ve gone ahead and downgraded Rockland’s credit rating from A1 to A3, only […]