Mike Larson

| Income & Dividend Analyst

The Safe-Money Investor Advocate

In an era of high-risk, high-stakes exuberance, Mike Larson stands out as a leader in conservative investment strategies that outperform the market over the long haul.

Using the safety-oriented Weiss Ratings as a guide, Mike's Safe Money Report has a proven history of guiding investors to stocks that provide consistent dividends, excellent growth, plus asset protection in down markets.

Meanwhile, his Weekend Windfalls service — where he collaborates with Trading Specialist Juan Villaverde and Ratings Specialist Mandeep Rai — shows investors how to make an average of $1,000 in extra cash nearly every Friday, also based on a safety-first income approach.

And his Heat Maps service reveals the top-rated stocks across a wide swath of industries. In each issue, he also gives an in-depth look into one sector and explains why it — and the stocks within it — should rise to the top investors' radars, too.

Mike is a graduate of Boston University and an alumnus of both Bloomberg News and Bankrate.com, where he helped investors and consumers better understand how to get the most from their savings, how to avoid risks in the mortgage market, and improve their personal finances overall.

He began doing the same on a much larger scale when he joined Weiss Ratings in 2001.

Working closely with founder Dr. Martin Weiss for two decades has given him the opportunity to see, firsthand, how keeping an eye on safety is so essential to building a reliable nest egg.

At Weiss Ratings, he has reached millions of readers and helped investors make sense of the markets, find safer investments with the highest returns, and grow their wealth through both good times and bad.

Over the years, you may have seen him featured on financial news channels like CNN, CNBC, Fox Business and BNN Bloomberg. He has also spoken on dozens of radio shows across the U.S., and his work has been quoted by AP, Reuters, The Chicago Tribune, The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and multiple other publications.

Today, Mike Larson is the proud standard-bearer of the Weiss 50-year tradition of safe investing.

Mike Larson's Articles
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Irish poet W.B. Yeats once warned that “the centre cannot hold” and that “mere anarchy” could be “loosed upon the world.” He wasn’t talking about the markets. But there are reasons to worry about...
Overhyped. Overvalued. Overloaded with losses. That describes most of the high-risk IPOs Wall Street has been dumping on the public markets since last spring. And that’s precisely why I warned...
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I don’t know if you’re a fan of William Butler Yeats. Or if you lean more toward Longfellow or Whitman. But he is one of the 20th century’s most famous and acclaimed poets. Yeats wrote a poem...
Sometimes, you just have to stop and appreciate how fortunate you really are. That’s how I feel here in South Florida. Hurricane Dorian was poised to deliver a knockout blow to our homes and...
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We’re into Day Two of a market rally buoyed by headlines about a possible U.S.-China trade deal/détente. I don’t know about you, but I can remember about 100 days in the last year and a half where...
When you hear “storm prep,” what do you think of? Boarding the windows? Shopping for nonperishables? Fueling the generator? Probably yes to all of these. But one thing that may not come to mind —...
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You should have just exited your 5% position in Old Republic International Corp. (ORI, Rated “A-”) for your Dynamic Income Portfolio, per my Aug. 19 Flash Alert. I estimate you made a very small...
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It’s been a long 19 months. Months of the broad averages essentially going nowhere. All three of the post-January 2018 attempts by the S&P 500 to break out to the upside … and STAY broken out to...
It’s the greatest story that’s NOT being told. The tale of amazing, unheralded, outperformance of “Safe Money” investments. And I’m determined to change that ... because it could make a dramatic...
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The stock market has perked up over the past two trading sessions. The catalysts include: 1) Optimism for some kind of “happy talk” from Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell later this week....
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