The Best Portfolio Protection Money Can Buy
Published Tue, 31 May 2011 on The Motley Fool

These aren't necessarily outliers. Using the same strategy -- the one I'll reveal in a minute -- you could have enjoyed 25% or better returns in each of these two "losing" stocks: Company Unadjusted Return* Total Return N. European Oil Royalty Trust (NYSE: NRT) (3.4%) 26.1% Resource Capital (NYSE: RSO) (5.2%) 73.2% Sources: Capital IQ, a division of Standard & Poor's, and Yahoo! Finance.*From July 10, 2008, per Yahoo! Finance. Our family portfolio has done almost as well. Our stake in Apollo Investment is up 18%, while Prospect Capital has returned 33%. Gross losses became net gains thanks to some not so fancy maneuvering on my part.... Read more