. Join PF Editor Neil George and Associate Editors Roger Conrad and Elliott Gue on board two of EUROPE’S FINEST LUXURY CRUISES June 14-25, 2007, and Sept. 8-16, 2007, respectively. The editors will be available to discuss any queries regarding your portfolio, while you see the sites of Europe. Read More

Statewide smoking ban proposals hit hard in the Washington, DC, metropolitan area early this month; thankfully, Virginia’s legislative body shut down Gov. Tim Kaine’s proposal to end freedom of choice, but as of this writing, the jury is still out in Maryland. Read More

Major stock market indexes were basically flat for the first quarter. The most widely followed benchmark, the S&P 500, was up 0.64 percent; the cheapest index fund mirrored that performance, returning 0.6 percent. Read More

Steady as a rail: That’s the approach we’re honing when it comes to our highlighted investments. With the general stock market marked by nothing if not volatility of late, we’re taking steps to ensure that each of you has the right foundation of Steady Eddies in your portfolio. Read More

Sometimes just being steady is enough to make a portfolio work. When stocks are plunging day after day and much of the bond market’s doing the same, more and more investors are eager for investments that stay put. Read More

Each year of the last five has featured pretty much the same story. Emerging markets and natural resources massively outperform, correct in scary fashion and then continue to outperform. Read More

Did something absolutely horrible happen to one of our Cash Cow companies? Did the CEO flee the country with millions of our assets? Did the headquarters blow up? Did someone from the Justice Dept show up with a writ? You’d think that one of those things—if not something worse—had happened, given the way some of our stocks have behaved recently. Read More

Enerplus Resources is cutting a deal to issue more trust shares and putting cash into tar sands— not what we’d like to see in light of pending tax changes. Read More

Residential REITs Home Properties and Mid-America Apartment have been hit by concerns about the US real estate market. Read More

Preferred stocks are one-decision investments: Buy at a price that makes sense, then sit back and collect the distributions. Even if they’re redeemed or called, the worst is you’re cashed out at a solid total return. Read More