There are only eight stocks that qualify!
Nov. 17, 2011, 12:00 a.m. EST
How to own a triple-A portfolio
Commentary: Outperform market with Band-Aids, petrol, fast trains
By Ben Weiss
TEL AVIV, Israel (MarketWatch) — What investor doesn’t want a AAA return on their share portfolio? From the United States to Asia, there are only eight remaining companies holding the envious title of Standard & Poor’s highest credit rating — and having consistently outperformed the market during the past three years, it may be worth going out this holiday season and filling up your Christmas stockings with this global portfolio of blue-chip companies.
The AAA club
The list of AAA-rated companies are becoming as rare as hen’s teeth. Well, not exactly, chickens lost their teeth some 80 million years ago, but it is only in the last 20 years that the number of AAA-rated companies has gone from 60 to just 8 today. Lost to the club in that time were illustrious companies such as Warren Buffet’s Berkshire Hathaway, Toyota and the Thomas Edison founded General Electric.
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