Carla Pasternak is a leading income investing expert, serving as Director of Income Research for High-Yield Investing and Dividend Opportunities. Together, these newsletters put her expertise in the hands of more than 200,000 subscribers each month.
A highly successful income investment analyst, Carla has excelled in the industry for almost three decades. In addition to her work as a writer for several nationally recognized financial publishers, her previous experience includes a position as the Investment Relations Manager of Aberford Resources (now Talisman Energy), where she produced prize-winning annual reports and shareholder communications. It was this in-depth experience in the high-yield Canadian energy sector that began to attract Dr. Pasternak to income investing.
Later, Carla founded Canada Corporate Communications, which was responsible for writing, designing, and producing shareholder reports for companies in Canada. The company handled upwards of 50 clients per year at its peak, including many of the most popular Canadian trusts.
For over 20 years Dr. Pasternak also taught several courses in the Bissett School of Business at Mount Royal University in Calgary.
On the educational front, Carla holds an MBA from the University of Calgary and a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin. When not watching the market, she enjoys outdoors activities, including hiking, kayaking, and horseback riding.
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Analyst Articles
It’s the oldest continual holding within my portfolios for my premium High-Yield Investing advisory. I added the stock back in September 2005… nearly seven years ago. During this time, I’ve earned $17.71 per unit in dividends. Meanwhile, the share price has more than doubled. As of now,… Read More
Let’s get the bad news out of the way. Dividend-paying stocks have risen just 2.3% in value on average since 2001, according to Wells Fargo. But if you add in the value of the dividend payments, then you’re looking at a healthier 26% return. That’s about 6% higher than the… Read More
Last week, coffee icon Starbucks (Nasdaq: SBUX) announced it would begin selling its own single-serve, at-home coffee maker. The device runs hot water through small, disposable containers of flavored coffee grounds to produce one cup of the drink, after which the container is discarded. If this rings… Read More
Warren Buffett is undoubtedly one of the most prolific investors in stock market history… and for good reason. During the first decade of the new millennium (2000-2010), Buffet’s Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK-A) returned a blistering 76%. By comparison, the… Read More
In the few months since I’ve launched my $100,000 Real-Money Portfolio, the market has continued to surge upward. The gains have been especially pronounced for some of the riskiest and most of unloved stocks of 2011 that have partially been the beneficiary of recent short-covering. That’s… Read More
You have to hand it to cable companies. For years, they continually boosted prices and still managed to retain customers. Only recently has their customer base begun to shrink modestly. But thanks to several recent developments, the pace of customer defections looks set to accelerate. This implies that sales and… Read More
Last year was a disastrous year for global financial stocks. This year could be different. In the European Union (E.U.), banks underperformed every other industry group last year, due to concerns about their loans to troubled European countries such as Portugal, Italy, Ireland, Greece… Read More
Many investors have had the agonizing experience of hanging on to a stock and refusing to let go long after it became clear the stock was no longer a keeper. If that’s you, then you know what I’m talking about — the seemingly endless watching, waiting and hoping against all… Read More
Whenever assessing a stock’s long-term growth potential, investors also need to focus on the hurdles the company must overcome before growth can take off. If you’re talking about a major technological or regulatory change, for example, then an ample amount of ground work needs to be laid before the stars… Read More
When ratings agency Standard & Poor’s set about to create a group of stock indexes, it came up with the S&P 500, 400 and 600, representing large-cap, mid-cap and small-cap stocks, respectively. What about micro-caps? The company’s… Read More