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Wal-Mart To Offer Brokerage Service – Time for Everyone to Sell!

Market Frenzy

In a recent artcile posted over at Money.com, it was reported that Wal-Mart (disclosure - I own Wal-Mart) is teaming up with Sharebuilder to offer brokerage services to its customers. The article talked about how Wal-Mart is looking to sell everything to its huge customer base, just as Sears tried to do once before but failed. I think the article missed a huge issue related to this announcement. Don't get me wrong, I believe the more educated people are about investing the better off in the …

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Insane Mutual Fund Fees

Site Introduction

I was reading the latest edition of Canadian Moneysaver, which is a great magazine that is Canadian focused but would be of value to any type of investor from any country as it touches on many key investment and personal finance topics. In one of the sidebar boxes, they had a blurb about the fees paid to one of Canada's largest mutual funds: $291,117,000 Yup, you read that right. The Investors Dividend fund pulled in that much from fees. Ok, granted the fund has over $13 billion in …

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How to Invest in Mergent’s Dividend Achievers Without Buying Individual Stocks

Stock Selection

So you say you love dividend stocks and know in your heard that buying stocks that consistently raise their dividends will be crucial to a well performing portfolio. However, like a lot of people you neither have the time nor the inclination to research, keep track of, and purchase individual securities. The good thing is that there are a lot of options available in the market for you to do some dividend investing without buying individual companies. The folks over at Seeking Alpha have put …

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Top 10 Reasons Dividend Investing Is Good – Updated With Your Comments

Principles, Stock Selection

I have received a number of inputs to why Dividend Investing is good. Thank you so much for your input. Presented below is the original article with the additional reasons dividend investing makes sense. I read a lot of articles on the web and books about dividend investing, and find that there is some real consistency in this literature concerning the top reasons dividend investing is a good approach. I would like to present these here and invite your feedback and comments on ones I may …

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The Secret to Investment Success

Principles, Stock Selection

Let's face it - investing is serious business. After all, we are talking about your hard earned money being put at risk for the "chance" of some future gains. One wrong move and you can wipe out a good chunk of capital. Talk about pressure. However, every once in a while we need to step back and lighten up a little bit. To that end, I present to you a passage by the famous Dave Barry in his book, "Money Secrets": ...the only way to make money in the stock market is to use a rational …

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My Watch List – Dividend Focused

Stock Selection

I have developed a watch list of dividend paying stocks that I am going to keep track of going forward. This list is mostly quelled from Michael Sivy's Sivy 70. I basically took his list, and filtered the stocks that are on either the Mergent's Dividend Achiever list or the S&P Dividend Aristocrats. This list is the behemoths of business that have huge market caps. However, in my opinion, building a core portfolio around any of these stocks could be a good strategy. My next step will be to …

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