The best thing about being a dividend growth investor is watching your dividend income grow over time. As I have written about time and time again, the power of a dividend growth portfolio is the compounded growth that an investor receives . As new dividends come into the account from the companies paying dividends, those dividends should be plowed back into more shares of the best companies. Over time your number of shares grow. Also, with the right companies the actual company dividend also …
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays
I am going to take a couple of days to spend some time with my family and friends this holiday season. There will be no posts on December 24th. I will resume posting on December 31st well rested (I think) and rarin' to go! Merry Christmas and happy holidays to all readers of tDG. See you in a couple of days...[ad#tdg-embedded] …
RSS Update – Please Update Your Readers
I have had some fun with the most recent version of Wordpress, a theme update, and my RSS Feed. I still have not idea what happened, but I have had to create a new feed address. Theoretically, the way I have things set up now, all of my existing subscribers should redirect to the new feed, but just to be safe, you can always update the feed in your favorite RSS reader to the new address. My new feed address is: http://feedproxy.google.com/TheDividendGuy As I work through everything on …
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The Top 6 Things I Learned from The Market Crash of 2008
2008 was (still is?) the worst stock market and economic period I have had to live through, and I don't think I am faring that poorly. I still have a good job in a foreign company as an expat, my stock portfolio is not down to zero, I sold out of Citigroup (even if it was too late), and my wife and kids still love me! However, I think that there is a HUGE amount of learning that we can all do as a result of this experience. Let's face it - the old adage that you learn from your mistakes holds …
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Switched My Main Broker to Questrade
(This article originally appeared on The DIV-Net) A few days ago one of my colleagues over at the DIV-Net wrote about online brokerages and using Zecco as low cost provider. As a Canadian, I like the sounds of Zecco's low costs however we Canadians are not eligible to open an account with them. In this post I would like to talk about a Canadian broker that I have been using to good effect that offers cheap trades - not $0 trades but pretty close. My primary broker for a long time was the …
Viewing My Sector and Asset Allocation
As part of my portfolio management processes, I have a behemoth spreadsheet that I use that includes all the data on my portfolio, including dividends per year, portfolio values, and investment returns. In addition to these normal portfolio management tools, I have two charts that I use to monitor a couple of very important aspects of my portfolio. These charts give me real time views of my portfolio structure. They include both asset allocation and sector allocation. Let's deal with …
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