Wow… that was a BAD week… or should I say a bad two weeks! I came back from vacation on March 2nd, fully energized with my brain ready to explode with plenty of ideas. Then, two days later, I found my two feet in two inches of water in my fully finished basement. Needless to say that I’ve spent more time in my basement than on my computer since then! But I’m finally back and this is behind me. After all, I just wrote a post about perseverance! In the good news department, my portfolio is …
Live Off Your Monthly Dividend Portfolio
During his/her accumulating phase of investing; the dividend growth investor focuses on building a strong money making machine. Each month, dividend payouts are deposited into his investment account and combine this money with his current savings to enable him to buy more shares. At this point, the only question that matters is: which is the best stock for my new investment money? Should he buy more shares of an existing holding or perhaps add another company to his portfolio? In both cases; his …
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Day#3 What is the Best Dividend Growth Stock?
We are now at our Day#3 of the 6 Days to Dividend Growth Investing series. I previously discussed how to find your purpose to invest and why I choose dividend growth investing to manage my portfolio. But knowing why you put money aside and that dividend investing is a sound way to make it grow doesn’t tell you which stock to buy. It doesn’t tell you how to manage your portfolio as a whole either. This article may become your best friend for the years to come when you will have a stock purchase …
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Day#2 Why Dividend Growth Investing?
Following up on my series of 6 Days to Dividend Growth Investing, I continue today with Day#2: Why choose dividend growth investing? Once you know why you invest, the next step is to build a solid investing strategy. Many investors think all is required is money and the ability to read a few financial newsletters to trade. Then, they get more experience and believe they can successfully invest by reading and analyzing financial reports. That’s definitely a start, but you won’t go far if you only …
6 Days to Dividend Growth Investing
Last week, I was going through the archives for this blog. Since there are over 1,300 articles written over almost five years, there was a lot to look at! But a series caught my attention. It was a series of six posts from the original owner of this blog called “The Dividend Key”. They were short posts that spoke to young dividend investors as they referred to well documented researched. This gave me the idea of revisiting the 6 Dividend Keys and produce a 6 Days to Dividend Growth Investing. …
4 US Stocks for Your RRSP Portfolio
The RRSP season is nearing its end (your last day for 2014 RRSP contribution is March 2nd 2015) and I thought I would go for 4 stock pick ideas. Since US dividend payouts are non-taxable in a registered account, this is the perfect place for Canadians to buy US stocks. Between you and me, even though the currency exchange rate is hurting your purchasing power, this won’t change this year and it could even get worse. So why not considering the great US diversification in dividend payers and go …
