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The Eternal Question: To Pay or Not To Pay Fees? This is basically what Paul asked on How I Beat The Market With My Trades. He mentioned that he owns shares of the popular BMO Monthly Income Fund. While I’ve already analyzed this fund, I wanted to add more thoughts on why you should or shouldn’t buy indexes or mutual funds instead of trading your own stocks.   I’ll tell you upfront, I think that investing in dividend stocks, ETFs and mutual funds are all great investing …

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Here we go with another round of the TSX60 ex-dividend date and dividend yield. Please note that YLO is not part of the index anymore with NO DIVIDEND whatsoever ! On the other side, we find now 24 great dividend stocks paying over a 3% dividend yield and 12 of them as a dividend payout ratio under 65%! I don't know about you, but this tells me that some dividend stocks from the TSX 60 are undervalued! Finally, I would be worried to hold the first 2 positions (Enerplus & Penn …

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Last week, we launched the Dividend Growth Index, a dividend stock index created by a few bloggers. On a quarterly basis, each blogger will follow their stocks and may also comment on the portfolio as a whole. Since we just launched the index, I won’t be discussing the results after this first week but will rather talk about my 3 picks: Intel (INTC), Coca-Cola (KO) and National Bank (TSE:NA). These 3 stocks together pays a 3.80% dividend yield and are known for their dividend growth over time. …

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Dividend growth investors, you don’t have to wait any longer to find great dividend growth stocks; The Dividend Guy Blog along with my fellow bloggers are launching the Dividend Growth Index next week!   What’s the Dividend Growth Index? I was looking create a group project with other dividend bloggers but didn’t want to post a stock picking contest. The purpose of dividend investing is to hold your stock long enough to benefit from the power of dividend growth. Therefore, hosting …

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I’m going a little bit out of topic this week with a Dividend Dad article (the first one I wrote was back in May!). Since money is a very important topic, I think it is also important to discuss how we teach money management to our children. After all, if they learn that before they earn some real money, they will definitely become better investors than us ;-).   We are already in the middle of September and this means that school has started for many of our children. My oldest, …

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  If you have been reading any financial newspaper or site for the past 6 months, you have seen numerous front pages concerning the catastrophic Government debt situation. It’s not only about the Greek debt anymore, now, we have tons of countries to be worried about: Portugal Ireland Italy Greece Spain And the most popular one: The United States of America has reached 100% of their GDP in debt.   So this is the end my friend, all governments are going to collapse …

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