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It is a common understanding among dividend investors that high yield stocks typically have meant lower capital gains than lower dividend yield stocks. The thinking is that very high yields signal trouble with a company that ultimately leads to lower stock returns. A recent American Association of Individual Investors (AAII) article from May 2009 (subscriber status required) provided some interesting research that show that is not always the case. In fact, they show in their research that …

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This will be a quick post, but I could not go without sitting down and writing it for the blog. I have been in London, England for the past week on some business and during the evenings I did a lot of walking around the major tourist and shopping areas. It was very hard not to notice, but if there is some sort of global recession going on then no one told that to the millions of travelers, Londoners, and especially shoppers. Every store I went into there were not only many people looking …

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This is a guest post from Matthew Kepnes of Nomadic Matt. Most people are under the illusion that travel is expensive. They see ads for expensive hotels, cruises, and European holidays and assume that travel has to be like that and that the only other way to travel is to be a backpacker, sleep in hostels, and cook pasta each day. That may be great for most people under 25 but for people with families, it is unrealistic. So people go on living this lie and spending hundreds per day on their one …

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Depending on the country you live in, an individual's need to save for retirement can vary widely. For example, in Norway (where I currently reside) they have a very socialist economy and any resident will retire with a pretty substantial income for their entire lives. In Canada, my home country, we have the Canadian Pension Plan. This pension plan is not huge - in 2007 the average monthly benefit was $481.46. This has huge implications on how I run my family finances.[ad#tdg-embedded] If …

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