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Small or Large: Does Size Really Matter When It Comes to Stocks?

Asset Allocation

As a dividend investors, are you missing out on the potential higher returns? Dividend investing and dividend stocks are most often associated with large-cap stocks and can be easily ignored. However, it is important for all investors to consider various asset classes for their overall asset allocation, and this includes small-cap stocks.[ad#tdg-embedded] What are the Characteristics of Small-Cap and Large-Cap Stocks When an investor speaks of small-cap stocks and large-cap stocks, they are …

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The Good, The Bad and The Ugly of Dividend Stocks

Dividend Growth, Stock Selection

“After a meal there's nothing like a good cigar” - Blondie from The Good, the Bad and the Ugly - Wikiquote Ok, so that quote has nothing to do with investing, but you can just picture Eastwood saying it.  Like everything in life, there are good things, bad things, and ugly things.  The same can be said about dividend investing and dividend in general.  Here is how dividends break down when I thought of them as the good, the bad, and the ugly.[ad#tdg-embedded] The Good: Dividends …

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Review: The Only Stock Advice I Pay For

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I have never had much success with stock newsletters. The trouble is that over the years I often got sucked into subscribing to them with the promise of riches and huge stock market gains. As an example, I have been a subscriber of newsletters such as The Motley Fool's Hidden Gems and Income Investor, Gordon Pape's Internet Wealth Builder, and even the Keystone Small-Cap Report.[ad#tdg-embedded] The trouble with all of these was that they provide me with recommendations for individual stocks …

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Contributions Matter (Most)

Asset Allocation, Portfolio Building

When it comes to dividend investing, retirement, or any other investment related topic we as investors are always very focused on the return we are going to generate. What is the historical return of the stock market? What is my estimate for how the market will perform over the next 25 years. What rate of return do I need to hit that magical $1,000,000 portfolio value? These are all questions I have asked over and over again in my investing experience. However, it is not the most important thing …

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Your Portfolio Needs Your Help: The Investor’s Manifesto

Blog, Site Introduction

“Having emailed and spoken to thousands of investors over the years, I have come to the sad conclusion that only a tiny minority will ever succeed in managing their money even tolerably well” -- William J. Bernstein If I had to pick a favorite investment and finance writer, and one that every dividend investor should read it would be Bernstein. His newest book, The Investor's Manifesto: Preparing for Prosperity, Armageddon, and Everything in Between, is no …

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My Fixed Income Portfolio Components

Asset Allocation

At the risk of sounding like a broken record, I firmly believe that the most important component to my portfolio is my asset allocation. I think it is even more important than owning dividend growth stocks! As I do regularly these days, I made a recent portfolio move in the name of asset allocation. I bought some more of one of my fixed income assets - iShares CDN Real Return Bond Index Fund (xrb.to) in order to bring my fixed income allocation closer to target.[ad#tdg-embedded] My fixed …

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