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Canadian Banks Results; National Bank Hikes Dividend to $0.66 (+$0.04)

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Quick news after the markets close; National Bank of Canada, the first bank to declare its financial results for their Q4 and year end announced they hike their dividend to 0.66$ per share per quarter. Therefore, the dividend rise to $2.64 per year and represents a 3.89% yield. Nationale Bank revenues are up by 19% for Q4 and 21% for compared to year 2009. Gradually other Canadian banks will post their financial results and some others are also expected to raise their dividend. Just …

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Free Dividend Newsletter

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  We are proud to launch our Free The Dividend Guy Blog Newsletter!   Before you sign-up, we wanted to talk a little bit more about what you will find inside. You probably receive tons of information already, so we want to provide you with concise and useful dividend and investing information.   First; The Freebies!   Right after you sign-up to The Dividend Guy Newsletter, you'll get 2 free downloads:     #1 Dividend Investing eBook This …

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SRI – Socially Responsible Investing or Investing to Make Money: Are Both Possible?

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We are coming to the end of this SRI series today with the ultimate question: as an individual investor; can you make socially responsible investing choices while making money? In order to answer this question, I had to go back and look at what we previously discussed: - What is SRI means and biggest Social Investment Indexes - Socially Responsible Stock List That Pays Dividend - My Socially Responsible Stock Portfolio (averaging a 3.5% dividend return) In my most recent post …

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Socially Responsible Dividend Portfolio

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Looking for socially responsible investments? But you also want to make money (with a clear consciousness?), after making a huge list of dividend paying ethical stocks, I’ve played around and build my own socially responsible dividend portfolio. The goal here was to start from the stock list and use different filters in order to build a diversified and competitive dividend portfolio. I have decided to combine both US and CDN stocks as the CDN list was too short and not diversified …

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Socially Responsible Stock List That Pays Dividends

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Last week, I started to discuss the topic of ethical investing. The point of my first post was to explain the definition of a socially responsible company. As capitalism has shown both its strengths and weaknesses, some investors are interested in companies that will not only produce great results for the next quarter or two but corporation that believe in sustainable business models. While no one is perfect, more and more companies are trying to become good corporate citizens. Is it just a …

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How To Build a Socially Responsible Stock Portfolio

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Ethical investing, sustainable investments, green investing and socially responsible investments have been words that barely existed 10 years ago. Even today, investors have a hard time knowing the difference between all these social investing terms. While qualifying green investments may seem a little bit easier, describing what is ethical or not, even socially responsible, is a bit harder. I noticed substantial interest from my tobacco industry stock review a couple of months …

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