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Implications of an International Move on My Dividend Reinvestment Plan

Personal Update

My family and I are relocating from Calgary, Canada to Stavanger, Norway as a result of a career opportunity with my current employer. Although this is an absolutely fabulous opportunity for my family and I, it does have some implications on my dividend reinvestment program. As you know if you have been reading this blog for awhile now, I use the Canadian Shareowner's Association as my primary broker. The reason I like them is for two reasons - they reinvest dividends into additional …

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3 Possible Actions to Take with a Dividend Decrease

Blog, Site Introduction

We are seeing a lot more dividend decreases in the most recent past (see matisse's post). Both large and small firms (primarily financial) are decreasing their dividend payments to investors to manage their financial performance. For an investor like me who searches for and attempts to invest in only those companies that continually increase their dividends, it certainly reduces the pool of possible investments. In addition, I currently own Citigroup which has recently slashed its dividend …

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Carnival of Money Stories Edition #65

Blog, Site Introduction

I am pleased to be hosting the 65th edition of the Carnival of Money Stories. This carnival shares personal stories and experiences on saving, investing, finance, money management, money generating, business ventures, success and tales of struggle. It is all about hearing how we all are handling our financial and business challenges as well as opinions on money news and stories you come across. Let's get right into it! Editor's Pick Dividends4Life presents The Race of Your Life posted …

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Patience Will Always Reward You in Dividend Investing

Blog, Site Introduction

“It's time in the market, not market timing, that counts”Dividend investing is not a one month process. In fact, I don't think it is even a one year process. Successful dividend investing is all about learning to determine a distinct course of action based on sound principles, and then having the patience and fortitude to let your plan work. Sometimes this patience is required for periods of 10+ years or more. An article on a page from RBC Investments had a good illustration of the need …

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Dividend Stock Wednesday: Johnson & Johnson (JNJ-N)

Stock Analysis

This is an analysis completed by The Dividend Guy. It is not to be used as investment advice or a recommendation to buy, hold, or sell any stocks discussed. Please ensure you complete your own analysis. Johnson & Johnson is the quintessential dividend growth stock and it was a pleasure to run my dividend analysis on it. It has a huge history of very strong dividend growth and the fundamentals are strong. I have recently refined my dividend analysis process as I often do to make it more …

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Where to Find Dividend Growth Rates

Dividend Growth

On this blog, and other dividend investing blogs, we talk a lot about the dividend growth rate of the various companies we track. As part of good dividend analysis determining what the dividend growth rate has been is important, primarily because we need to see if the growth rate is accelerating or slowing. I have some suggestions for you to help determine these growth rates - the first one more difficult than the second but depends on the data available for the stock you are examining. …

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