I was recently asked by a reader (thanks Edwin) about my take on using a hedging strategy in a dividend investing portfolio. Although I have never done any true hedging (other than covered calls) in my dividend growth portfolio, it has been a huge topic of discussion from many financial pundits as a way to help limit the downside with a sliding portfolio. I did some research on it and wanted to provide a quick overview here, and provide my take on it.[ad#tdg-embedded] The intention of …
The Dividend Guy 2008 Year In Review
Typically on Saturdays I post my Weekly Roundup, which links to a number of the posts that I have found particularly valuable over the past week. However, seeing that we are in a brand new year, I thought it would be appropriate for me to link to a number of the articles I have published over the past year. It has been a busy year both at the blog and in the market. Thanks to everyone for continuing to come back time and time again. I really do appreciate it.[ad#tdg-embedded] January …
Tracking My Portfolio Income
The best thing about being a dividend growth investor is watching your dividend income grow over time. As I have written about time and time again, the power of a dividend growth portfolio is the compounded growth that an investor receives . As new dividends come into the account from the companies paying dividends, those dividends should be plowed back into more shares of the best companies. Over time your number of shares grow. Also, with the right companies the actual company dividend also …
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays
I am going to take a couple of days to spend some time with my family and friends this holiday season. There will be no posts on December 24th. I will resume posting on December 31st well rested (I think) and rarin' to go! Merry Christmas and happy holidays to all readers of tDG. See you in a couple of days...[ad#tdg-embedded] …
RSS Update – Please Update Your Readers
I have had some fun with the most recent version of Wordpress, a theme update, and my RSS Feed. I still have not idea what happened, but I have had to create a new feed address. Theoretically, the way I have things set up now, all of my existing subscribers should redirect to the new feed, but just to be safe, you can always update the feed in your favorite RSS reader to the new address. My new feed address is: http://feedproxy.google.com/TheDividendGuy As I work through everything on …
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The Top 6 Things I Learned from The Market Crash of 2008
2008 was (still is?) the worst stock market and economic period I have had to live through, and I don't think I am faring that poorly. I still have a good job in a foreign company as an expat, my stock portfolio is not down to zero, I sold out of Citigroup (even if it was too late), and my wife and kids still love me! However, I think that there is a HUGE amount of learning that we can all do as a result of this experience. Let's face it - the old adage that you learn from your mistakes holds …
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