As a subscriber to Kiplinger's Personal Finance magazine, every once in a while I run across a piece of information that I find really valuable. In this month's edition, there was an article about hedging your bets and one of the topics was the impact if slightly reducing your equity exposure to reduce the volatility of your portfolio. Sure, you give up some future gains but the difference is not worth doing given the volatility and additional risk more equity exposure gives you. In the …
Weekly Dividend Investing Roundup – June 20, 2009
Welcome to the June 20, 2009 edition of The Dividend Guy's weekly roundup of posts and articles about investing, dividend and non-dividend related. If you know of other blogs that are covering the topic of investing and dividends, please feel free to let us all know using the comment section below. [ad#tdg-embedded] The DIV-Net Total dividend income Indicators of our economic future Why dividend cuts happen Medtronic increases dividend Dividend Portfolios – concentrate or …
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Bought Some More Fixed Income For My Portfolio
In my struggle to bring my fixed income asset allocation in line to my target allocation, I did some buying in May. It was not a huge transaction, but essentially it took me from only 10% fixed income to a whopping 12.4% fixed income. As I wrote about a month ago, I had been focused on buying equities with the market down from October to January and the fixed income got away from me. The security I purchased was one I already held in my portfolio - the iShares CDN Short Bond Index Fund …
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Knight Kiplinger’s Investor’s Manifesto
I digitally subscribe to Kiplinger's Personal Finance Magazine through the Zinio Reader (affiliate link but I really do love it!) and there was a pretty good article by the magazine's founder, Knight Kiplinger. In this article, he outlines what he calls his investor's manifesto or rules he lives by in his investment life. Here they are, with some of my own comments added.[ad#tdg-embedded] Click to Enlarge I am an investor. I do not trade my assets frequently. That's speculation, not …
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Think Diversification. Think Simplicity. Think.
I am often amazed at the things people do with their own portfolios. I am not a financial advisor nor do I review other people's portfolio's as a "friend" on a regular basis. However, as soon a people hear that I have this blog they inevitably ask me questions. And honestly, 9 times out of 10 I am amazed by what people have done in their portfolios.[ad#tdg-embedded] As an example, one individual I was speaking with the other day is a highly educated professional working in a crazy high paying …
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