What can you do when the bull gets long in the tooth? Buy convertibles. My friends at Convergex recently penned a note to Jeff Gundlach about how old this bull market really is, but that’s beside the point. The fact is that investors are eager for downside protection after a good run, but they still want upside potential. We want to have our cake and eat it, too. The situation puts advisors like me in a fix: I don’t want to get burned trying to time the market, since this bull market has fooled the best and brightest, and I’m

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