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Dear Investor, Why Are You Paying Those Fees?

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The Eternal Question: To Pay or Not To Pay Fees? This is basically what Paul asked on How I Beat The Market With My Trades. He mentioned that he owns shares of the popular BMO Monthly Income Fund. While I’ve already analyzed this fund, I wanted to add more thoughts on why you should or shouldn’t buy indexes or mutual funds instead of trading your own stocks.   I’ll tell you upfront, I think that investing in dividend stocks, ETFs and mutual funds are all great investing …

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INTC Intel Stock Analysis

Stock Analysis

  It’s been a while since I published my last dividend stock analysis. I got busy launching the Dividend Growth Index and beating the stock market with my dividend stocks. So today, I’ll be analyzing Intel (INTC) in which I bought shares a few months ago. So I’m obviously going to tell you how great the company is ;-). Just kidding, I’ll actually tell you why I bought them!   INTC Company Profile If you have a computer, chances are that there is an “Intel Inside”. Intel (INTC) is …

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Would You Invest Everything in a 6% Distribution Portfolio?

Canadian Dividend Stocks

Recently, I received 2 emails from newsletter subscribers asking what I think about investing massively in Canadian REITs. I guess that both of them are retired as they mentioned that their goal was to receive a consistent stream of income. Well, at first glance, this is exactly the main purpose of investing in Canadian REITs. However, a better question is the following:   Would you invest all your money in a few stocks that provide a high dividend yield / distribution …

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How I Beat The Market With My Dividend Trades

Dividend Growth, Investing Strategy

To be completely honest with you, I have been interested in dividend investing for a while but only switched my portfolio towards this approach back in January 2011. Why did I take so long? Simply because I had a lot of success by trading more aggressively in the past. From 2003 to 2006, I made enough money to build up a $50,000 down payment to buy my first house. Then, I started in 2008 to trade the way I had previously (by taking a lot of risks!) and I got hit brutally by bad trades such as …

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TSX60 Ex-Dividend Date and Dividend Yield

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Here we go with another round of the TSX60 ex-dividend date and dividend yield. Please note that YLO is not part of the index anymore with NO DIVIDEND whatsoever ! On the other side, we find now 24 great dividend stocks paying over a 3% dividend yield and 12 of them as a dividend payout ratio under 65%! I don't know about you, but this tells me that some dividend stocks from the TSX 60 are undervalued! Finally, I would be worried to hold the first 2 positions (Enerplus & Penn …

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Dividend Growth Index Results

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Last week, we launched the Dividend Growth Index, a dividend stock index created by a few bloggers. On a quarterly basis, each blogger will follow their stocks and may also comment on the portfolio as a whole. Since we just launched the index, I won’t be discussing the results after this first week but will rather talk about my 3 picks: Intel (INTC), Coca-Cola (KO) and National Bank (TSE:NA). These 3 stocks together pays a 3.80% dividend yield and are known for their dividend growth over time. …

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