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The Pros and Cons of Selling Covered Calls on Dividend Paying Stocks

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This is a guest post from Dividend Growth Investor. Dividendgrowth has been investing in stocks, options, futures, forex and bonds for the past thirteen year. He has been focusing his attention particularly to companies that pay regular dividends to their shareholders since 2003. In his blog he shares his journey on his quest for achieving a sizeable passive income stream that would be realized by investing in dividend paying stocks that have consistently increased their payments over time. He …

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What Makes a Stock Defensive? The Ultimate Defensive Stock

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This post exploring the concept of a defensive stock was written by The MoneyGardener. In the article he describes what a defensive stock is. Make sure you read to the end because he presents his suggestion for the ultimate defensive stock. According to Investopedia.com, a defensive stock is a stock that provides a constant dividend and stable earnings regardless of the state of the overall stock market. Defensive stocks remain stable during the various phases of the business cycle. During …

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Watch Out For These 6 Slick Mutual Fund Marketing Tricks

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Want to know where some of the best minds in sales and marketing earn a great living? Mutual fund companies. Mutual fund companies are not in the investment business in my opinion, they are in the selling and marketing business. Sure their sales are driven by good investment performance, but it is also driven by how well they sell the dream. According to a study by Henrik Cronqvist of The Ohio State University, Fisher College of Business, Department of Finance, U.S. mutual funds spend about …

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Investment Ideas from My Fridge

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Did you know that your fridge can hold the key to a well funded portfolio? I personally make money from my refrigerator every day. Every time I grab that Diet CokeI am contributing to the success of Coca-Cola and helping to ensure that my dividend payments continue to increase every year. Ok, so maybe I am stretching things a bit here, but I receive at least one email a day asking for investment ideas and wanted to present a 'cool' way to generate dividend investment ideas. Let's take a look …

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Carnival of Personal Finance #137 – The Passion Edition

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Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion -- Hebbel That image at the start of this post is a Passion Flower. My passion is investing, primarily dividend investing. However, the thing about blogging and reading other people's blogs is that you receive great insight and knowledge about other people's passions. Live is nothing without passion. This carnival is dedicated to those passions that keep us moving forward and provide us with all the excitement and …

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The Dividend Guy Investment Process Part 11: My Portfolio

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This is the last post in a series of posts that discussed my dividend investing process, which started at my investment principles and lead us here, to a view to my portfolio. Given that this post in the series happens to come at the end of the month, when I regularly present my asset allocation and holding on The Dividend Guy Blog, I thought it would be the perfect way to finish the series off. My Portfolio My portfolio is comprised of a number of different assets, all of which make …

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