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TSX Ex Dividend Date + Best 2014 Dividend Stocks Returns

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    Wow… it has been a long month, right?   I left for my first “couple vacation” (read; without kids!) in the last ten years! We went to Hawaii to take some real time off, do all kinds of crazy things (like jumping into a waterfall and diving into a crater) and get some sun (I live in the cold winterland: Canada!). Now that I’m back, snow and ice are still around and the stock market seems to be relatively stuck in ice as well.   Both the Canadian and US …

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January: Stocks are Down, But I Still Beat Both Benchmark with my Picks!

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The market didn’t start the way we thought it would in 2014. I was in the camp of optimists believing the rally would continue with the earnings season. But there were some hiccups and the S&P 500 is down -3.56% and the S&P TSX was timidly up by 0.54%. The sad part is the hiccups came from the earnings. In other words: companies didn’t make as much profit as anticipated. For the superstitious, the first month of the year on the stock market means a lot. When we look at the stats over …

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Another Purchase in My Portfolio

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  I truly enjoy the month of January as it is usually the time when I have extra cash to fund my retirement investment account. This year, I’m adding $5,000 to my pot. In addition to this amount, I have over $1,500 that was waiting in an US index fund that I will use to buy new stocks. Instead of waiting on a pile of cash, I usually invest my dividend payouts in an index fund. This is a good method to diversify a few hundred bucks at a low cost that benefits from any market upside. I …

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Compilation of all Dividend Stocks Per Sector for 2014

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warning; this post is quite lengthy and includes several stock charts, you may want to bookmark it if you read this on your mobile! I don’t know if you are like me, but the thing I like the most about managing my own portfolio is buying stocks. The simple fact of adding another company to my investments thinking I will generate profits makes me happy for the day. The second thing I like best is when I sell a stock and cash out the profit. Here again, it’s always fun to look at your paper …

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Best 2014 Dividend Stock Picks Book – Free for 5 Days Only!

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Hello Dividend Investors!   I know I’ve been quite silent on my blog in December, but this is because I was working very hard behind the scenes to come up with two major announcements! For a third year in a row, I’ve produced my Best 2014 Dividend Stock Picks Book. This is a compilation of 20 US dividend stocks and 10 Canadian dividend stocks with one pager analysis for each pick. In 2012, I almost matched the US market and beat the Canadian market by more than 8%. In 2013, I …

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10 Handpicked Dividend Growth Stocks Increasing Payout by More Than 20%

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At the beginning of each year, I like to pull out a search from my stock screener using my favorite investing metrics. One of them is obviously to find stocks with aggressive dividend growth over the past five years. I revisited this list not so long ago and handpicked 10 high growth dividend stocks from the past five years. They may be of interest if you are looking for big dividend payment increases!   #10 KLA-Tencor Corp (KLAC) +23.24%   KLA-Tencor supplies process controls …

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