Asset Allocation

  At the beginning of the year,  I had set 3 main investing goals (you can read about them here):   #1 Buying a consumer stock (I picked another techno stock instead with Apple) #2 Dripping most of my stocks (not done yet, I’m procrastinating!) #3 Buying an index ETF (most probably an ETF tracking the S&P 500)   Why a Dividend Investor Would Switch to Index Investing?   The main purpose of dividend investing is obviously to select the stocks you …

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    Investing can be pretty frustrating sometimes. You can make a lot of “okay” and “good” trades to make some decent profit. But if you have some bad luck to pick a poor company, your whole portfolio can be damaged. I just wrote the word “luck” in an investment blog… man! I should have written “if you have the lack of discipline to deviate from your investing strategy!”. It is true that you might run into some bad luck when you select your own stocks. But most of the time, when …

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    After last week’s post about Techno stocks being the new dividend favorites,Charlotte mentioned that she was too old to invest in the stock market. I found this comment intriguing as I just met an 85 year old investor who still has about 20% of his portfolio in stocks…. And I’m not considering the amount he has in preferred shares! He was pretty happy with his portfolio and liked the fact that he could beat the inflation. If this investor doesn’t follow the 100 minus your age …

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    For a long time in the stock market, dividend stocks were synonymous with diversified blue chips such as PG,JNJ, KO,PEP, CL, etc. These clue chips had long since put their period of high speed growth behind them and since been time to reward investors through increasing dividends. Investors select these kinds of stocks for the great mix of stability and quarterly cash flow. This is what you usually expect from mature companies in mature markets.   Similarly, we …

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