7 Utility Stocks Offering A Spectrum Of Opportunities

By David Fabian:The ETF landscape is continuing to evolve to include more and more multi-asset strategies that give investors access to a wide range of investment options in a single fund. This ever expanding menu makes it easy to custom tailor your portfolio to suit your risk tolerance, give you instant diversification, and provide complete transparency of the underlying holdings.

By Jeff Williams:Over the past month the Utility Sector (XLU) has been selling off. As the utility sector has "fallen out of favor" this has presented an excellent opportunity to investigate utilities for investment purposes. ALLETE Incorporation (ALE) is one company utility worth considering.

ByNick Chiu:3 Utilities Stocks in the regulated electric sector with a low beta will be presented in this article, including Duke Energy Corp (DUK), The Southern Company (SO), and American Electric Power Company, Inc. (AEP).

By Ron Hiram:In prior articles I looked at the sustainability of distributable cash flows with respect to a number of MLPs. In this article I focus on something quite different - the relationship between MLP returns and oil prices.

Parsimony Investment Research submits:If you have been following my posts the past few weeks, you'll know that I am a big believer in sector rotation strategies for domestic equity exposure. We are in the middle of a defensive shift that I believe is signaling a market top (Is Sector Rotation Signaling a Market Top?).

Parsimony Investment Research submits: Protecting the Quarterback Let's be honest, there is nothing sexy about utility stocks. They don't need the spotlight or the glory. But when they get called upon, they step in and do their job ... no questions asked. They are humble and reliable.

Each quarter, Pimco’s investment professionals from around the world gather in Newport Beach to discuss the outlook for the global economy and financial markets. Saumil Parikh, managing director and portfolio manager, recently assumed leadership of these forums. In the following interview, he discusses Pimco’s cyclical economic outlook for the next six to 12 months.The outlook in a nutshell is:

Scott's Investments submits:Low fixed income yields continue to frustrate income investors. For those wanting higher yields and willing to take additional risk, utilities are one sector worth consideration as part of an overall portfolio strategy. Utilities tend to be lower growth, lower volatility stocks compared to other sectors.