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I must admit that even as a pretty serious dividend investor, I had never heard the term "dividend capturing" before. I always knew what it was all about, but had never heard an official term for it. I was doing some digging around for some keywords for investing blogs (us bloggers do that) and ran across the term and decided I must write about it.[ad#tdg-embedded] What is Dividend Capturing Dividend capturing is a timing strategy that puts an investor in and out of stocks at …

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“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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The Google Doc listed below represents my current dividend stock and ETF holdings. As with all the information on this blog, this is not a recommendation to buy these securities. Depending on my asset allocation, I am either:[ad#tdg-embedded] 1) Using additional funds to buy more of the stocks or ETFs that are below my target asset allocation 2) Selling partial amounts stocks or ETFs that represent too much of my portfolio 3) Keeping things status quo and doing nothing Disclaimer: …

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What I like the best about investing is that it is a never ending learning experience. Every time I turn around I have learned something new and will have become a better investor because of it. That being said, I just went through a bit of a process for the purposes of my blog to come up with the top 100 investment lessons I have learned to this point. I am going to break this up into 4 parts, with the first 25 in this post.[ad#tdg-embedded] 1. Asset allocation is more important than …

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