I recently read a great book by down to earth investor, Larry E. Swedroe. In his book, The Only Guide to Alternative Investments You'll Ever Need: The Good, the Flawed, the Bad, and the Ugly, Swedroe outlines a number of different types of investments with the main objective being to explain how one can diversify risk. As we all know, are a number of types of investments out there that dividend investors can use to round out their asset allocation, but only a few of them are actually worth …
Dividend Stocks in My Portfolio that Have Raised Dividends
It is always fun to watch for the individual dividend stock holdings that have recently increased their dividends. To me, this really means two things. First, it means that the company is strong as it has been able to raise the amount of cash it pays out to investors. Second, it means that I have just got a raise in the form of more dividends. This adds up over time and one day, I will be able to retire on this additional income. [ad#tdg-embedded] I recently had a look through my …
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Dividend Income Lessons I Have Learned
One of the reasons I love the investment process so much is because every time I turn around I realize that I have learned something new. Just when you think you have "the game" down, something comes along and knocks you on your ass. Take those dividend cuts by Bank of America, Citigroup, and General Electric for crying out loud. GE was never ever supposed to have to cut its dividend. But it did and many of dividend investors learned a valuable lesson - never assume that dividend growth, …
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Chopping Stocks to Lessen Your Risk
As a subscriber to Kiplinger's Personal Finance magazine, every once in a while I run across a piece of information that I find really valuable. In this month's edition, there was an article about hedging your bets and one of the topics was the impact if slightly reducing your equity exposure to reduce the volatility of your portfolio. Sure, you give up some future gains but the difference is not worth doing given the volatility and additional risk more equity exposure gives you. In the …
Weekly Dividend Investing Roundup – June 20, 2009
Welcome to the June 20, 2009 edition of The Dividend Guy's weekly roundup of posts and articles about investing, dividend and non-dividend related. If you know of other blogs that are covering the topic of investing and dividends, please feel free to let us all know using the comment section below. [ad#tdg-embedded] The DIV-Net Total dividend income Indicators of our economic future Why dividend cuts happen Medtronic increases dividend Dividend Portfolios – concentrate or …
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Bought Some More Fixed Income For My Portfolio
In my struggle to bring my fixed income asset allocation in line to my target allocation, I did some buying in May. It was not a huge transaction, but essentially it took me from only 10% fixed income to a whopping 12.4% fixed income. As I wrote about a month ago, I had been focused on buying equities with the market down from October to January and the fixed income got away from me. The security I purchased was one I already held in my portfolio - the iShares CDN Short Bond Index Fund …
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