Large Cap Growth and Other Investing Strategies

February 20, 2012

Buy ($175)

Topics covered: Strategic Asset Allocation, Socially Responsible Investing, Covered Calls as a Hedge, Absolute Performance and Focused Portfolios

Companies covered: Compagnie G?n?rale de G?ophysi, Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL), Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN), Exxon Mobil Corporation (NYSE:XOM), Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE:VZ), Vodafone Group Plc (NASDAQ:VOD), United Parcel Service, Inc. (NYSE:UPS), Union Pacific Corporation (NYSE:UNP), TriQuint Semiconductor, Inc., AT&T Inc. (NYSE:T), STEC, Inc., RF Micro Devices Inc., Nuance Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ:NUAN), JDS Uniphase Corporation (NASDAQ:JDSU), Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ:GOOG), General Electric Company (NYSE:GE), E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Company (NYSE:DD), Chevron Corporation (NYSE:CVX), Computer Sciences Corporation (NYSE:CSC), Canadian Pacific Railway Limited (NYSE:CP), Crown Castle International (NYSE:CCI), CACI International, Inc. (NYSE:CACI), Boeing Company (The) (NYSE:BA), American Tower Corporation (REIT) (NYSE:AMT), Illinois Tool Works Inc. (NYSE:ITW), CVS Health Corporation (NYSE:CVS), Franklin Resources, Inc. (NYSE:BEN), Accenture plc. (NYSE:ACN), United Technologies Corporation (NYSE:UTX), Procter & Gamble Company (The) (NYSE:PG), Occidental Petroleum Corporation (NYSE:OXY), Netflix, Inc. (NASDAQ:NFLX), McKesson Corporation (NYSE:MCK), Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (The) (NYSE:GS), General Motors Company (NYSE:GM), eBay Inc. (NASDAQ:EBAY), American Express Company (NYSE:AXP), AMERIPRISE FINANCIAL SERVICES, INC. (NYSE:AMP), Aflac Incorporated (NYSE:AFL), American Electric Power Company, Inc. (NYSE:AEP), Automatic Data Processing, Inc. (NASDAQ:ADP), Yum! Brands, Inc. (NYSE:YUM), Southern Company (The) (NYSE:SO), McDonald's Corporation (NYSE:MCD), International Business Machines Corporation (NYSE:IBM), Ecolab Inc. (NYSE:ECL)