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Dividend Growth Index Roundup

Best Dividend Posts of the Week

As many of you are excited about the launch of the Dividend Growth Index I wanted to highlight some of the articles from the blogs involved in this project... 1. 6 Premium Dividend Payers On Sale @ Dividend Monk. 2. 10-Year Treasury Yield? Double It! @ Dividend Mantra. 3. Backgammon and the Stock Market @ Dividend Ninja. 4. Kevin O’Leary: The Fire of a Dragon @ Wealthy Canadian. 5. Revisiting why I DRIP @ My Own Advisor. 6.  Finding Cheap Stocks In The Steel Sector  @ Buy Like …

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6 Reasons Why You Should Panic and 1 Reason Why You Should Keep Investing

Market Frenzy

Since its peak back at the end of April and beginning of May, the stock market has gone down 20%. Regardless if we are looking at the US stock market, Canadian or International markets, they are all in the red. During the summer, we had front pages telling us that one or another government was going to collapse under the weight of their debt. Is it the time to panic yet? If you listen to Joe-Investor, you have 6 reasons to panic right now... but I think you still have 1 reason to invest …

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Dividend Growth Index

Blog, Site Introduction

Dividend growth investors, you don’t have to wait any longer to find great dividend growth stocks; The Dividend Guy Blog along with my fellow bloggers are launching the Dividend Growth Index next week!   What’s the Dividend Growth Index? I was looking create a group project with other dividend bloggers but didn’t want to post a stock picking contest. The purpose of dividend investing is to hold your stock long enough to benefit from the power of dividend growth. Therefore, hosting …

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Dividend Dad How I Show The Importance of Money To My 6 Year Old Son

Blog, Site Introduction

I’m going a little bit out of topic this week with a Dividend Dad article (the first one I wrote was back in May!). Since money is a very important topic, I think it is also important to discuss how we teach money management to our children. After all, if they learn that before they earn some real money, they will definitely become better investors than us ;-).   We are already in the middle of September and this means that school has started for many of our children. My oldest, …

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6 Steps to Buy a 7% Dividend Paying Stock With Low Risk

Investing Strategy, Portfolio Building

High dividend yield in a low risk portfolio? How is that possible? Well there is a way that you can invest your money and earn a high dividend yield without taking much risk. I think that’s this is basically what we all want as dividend investors: high dividend yield from low risk stocks. But unfortunately, it is rarely the case. If you remember my yellow pages (YLO) analysis you know that high dividend yield is usually followed by dividend cuts (especially if the dividend yield is combined …

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Why You Should Not Care About The US Government’s Debt Problems

Blog, Site Introduction

  If you have been reading any financial newspaper or site for the past 6 months, you have seen numerous front pages concerning the catastrophic Government debt situation. It’s not only about the Greek debt anymore, now, we have tons of countries to be worried about: Portugal Ireland Italy Greece Spain And the most popular one: The United States of America has reached 100% of their GDP in debt.   So this is the end my friend, all governments are going to collapse …

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