If you are Canadian, you know that the RRSP season is about to start. To be honest, it has already started for some good financial advisors ;-). Since half of my readers here are Canadians, I thought of publishing some RRSP contribution information along with 5 of the best RRSP investment strategies to boost your retirement savings. 2012 RRSP Contribution Limits The RRSP contribution limit for the taxable year of 2012 is $22,970. This does not include …
Dividend Investing Goals for 2013
In the middle of 2010, I purchased this blog mainly because I wanted to switch my portfolio from an aggressive growth model to a dividend investing model. I took me about 6 months to trade my non dividend paying stocks in order to rebuild my portfolio. Since then, I’ve kept only one stock that doesn’t pay dividends (and it’s down sharply now). When I look at the rest of my portfolio (i.e. the dividend stocks), I can say that I’ve made some good trades. In a few weeks, I’ll …
Dividend Yield or Dividend Growth?
This is a guest post written by a new dividend investor blogger; Frank @ Dividend Engineering. You guessed it, as many DYI investors he is an engineer ;-). To paraphrase John William Burr, one of the founding fathers of stock valuation, a stock is worth what you can get out of it. This simple principle applies completely to dividend investing. In fact, it is probably the basic principle of dividend investing. We, as dividend investors, buy dividend stocks to …
What Can We Expect From Dividend Stocks in 2013?
Back at the beginning of 2012, I played Nostradamus and tried to call the shots on a bullish versus a bearish market for 2012. It appeared that I was right (read my prediction here) and I even called the bluff on the “potential” dividend bubble. So, I thought it would be interesting to look at what we can expect in 2013 for dividend investors… Bullish or Bearish for 2013? As I did back in 2012, I started my analysis by looking at cold, hard facts. It can …
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Best 2013 Canadian Dividend Stocks
For the beginning of the year, I did some research on a lot of stocks and wrote the Best Dividend Stocks for 2013 eBook (you can download it for only $2.99 here). This eBook includes 30 Dividend Growth Stocks (20 US and 10 Canadian) that have been showing very solid dividend metrics. Last week, I pulled out the Best 2013 US dividend stocks with an impressive list of 96 stocks. This is a lot more than the 20 picks I selected for the best 2013 dividend stocks (30 stock …
Best US Dividend Stocks for 2013
For the beginning of the year, I did some research on a lot of stocks and wrote the Best Dividend Stocks for 2013 eBook (you can download it for free here). This eBook includes 30 Dividend Growth Stocks (20 US and 10 Canadian) that have been showing very solid dividend metrics. On top of analyzing what I think will be the best 2013 dividend stocks (30 stock analyses in this book), my research over the Holidays led me to create a list of 96 US dividend stocks. This …
