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How Did You Do On The Dividend Investor Test?

Blog, Site Introduction

  Last week, I opened a can of worm by publishng a dividend investor survey. The goal of this survey was to have you think about whether or not you have what it takes to be a successful dividend investor. I thought the idea was interesting or at least funny and it could create some buzz around The Dividend Guy Blog. Man! It worked very well. In fact, the day we launched it, we had 1,009 visitors on this article alone! I received several reactions concerning the survey. Some were great …

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14 Dividend Stocks For a Portfolio that Beat the Market in 2011

Stock Analysis

Over the past year, I have shared several dividend stock analyses. I’m trying to analyze both Canadian Dividend Stocks and US Dividend Stocks as I think it is important to hold both of them in your portfolio (regardless if you are American or Canadian!). Since both markets are accessible and have different strengths, why not benefit from both worlds and invest on both sides of the border?   Since we are at the end of the year, I wanted to recap each stock I’ve analyzed throughout the …

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TSX 60 Dividend Yield and Ex Dividend Date

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  Wow! What a crazy end of the month on the TSX60 !?! I don’t know about you, but my portfolio took a huge jump from the past 3 days! I must admit it feels good after losing so much money during the last 2 weeks!   Since it was a big month, I’ve decided to make an exception and post a third article this week in order to publish the TSX 60 Dividend yield, Ex-Dividend date and Dividend Payout.   Some thoughts on Canadian stocks:   Sunlife (SLF) is now on …

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Invest $25,000, Make Money and Don’t Even Dip Into Your Pocket To Fund Your Investment!

Investing Strategy

    You can make money with other’s people money.   I’m sure you have heard this somewhere else before. And I’m sure that many of you will disagree with me. But I think that making money with other’s people money is one of the best, if not the best way to acquire wealth.   On Monday, I was talking about how 2012 might be the investing opportunity of the decade. You may agree with me but it doesn’t mean that you have more money to invest. What if you don’t …

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The Opportunity of a Decade – Looking Up For 2012

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I know, I know, my title just sounds like I’m a huge believer. That I’m one of the few people that only see the positive in the world and forget, read ignore, the bad things happening. But, truly, I don’t think that the picture is that dark right now. In fact, I think that we are right in the middle of the opportunity of a decade on the stock market. I’m definitely looking forward to 2012. We keep looking at worst case scenarios where the entire Eurozone collapses and provokes the biggest …

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Uncommon Portfolio Diversification

Asset Allocation

  When the market goes up and down like this, all we hear about is « patience » and « diversification ». While it is sometimes a bit annoying to hear the same broken record over and over again, this is sound advice. If you are too concentrated in a specific sector (Techno in the 90’s and financials in 2008 just to name two examples!) you will suffer a lot more than other investors.   Besides fixed income and equities or sectorial and geographic diversification, are there any …

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