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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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About a month ago, I reviewed a US Dividend Portfolio that is being offered by a broker I know. Since the broker is Canadian, he also had a Canadian Dividend portfolio he presents to his clients. I thought of taking a look at this portfolio too and adding my grain of salt. So here’s the Canadian Dividend Portfolio: The Canadian portfolio give about the same result Funny enough, you can build this Canadian dividend portfolio with $20,470$ (including 15 buy transactions at …

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On Monday, I discussed how I modified my filter in the search of the best US dividend stocks. What I like about the US market is its size and diversification. You can “easily” find great dividend stocks across different sectors and complete your asset allocation without much trouble. Well when I ran the same filters on the Canadian market, I wasn’t able to get 49 great picks. In fact, I was only able to get 13 dividend stocks that made the grade with the following criteria: - Dividend yield …

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Back in August, I created a filter to find the best US dividend stocks. My criteria were the following: - Dividend yield over 3% - Stock price over $10.00 - Payout Ratio under 60% Then, with your comments, I decided to pull out another search for the Top US dividend stocks by changing my filters for the following: - Dividend yield over 3% - Maximum dividend yield 7% - Payout Ratio under 60% - Dividend growth (min 5% annualized growth over 5 years) - P/E ratio under …

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We are quickly heading into the last quarter of 2010 while the stock market has been boiling for the past couple of weeks. After the worries generated by the PIIGS (Portugal, Italy, Ireland, Greece and Spain) back in May and the enormous US deficit, investors seem to be comforted by the good news coming from US companies. When we talk about good news, we also talk about dividend stocks maintaining or increasing their dividends. So let’s take a look at what happened in Q3 2010 in the world of …

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I recently met with one of my friends who is an investment broker. We were talking about the US stock market and how there are plenty of investing opportunities for dividend investors at the moment. This is when he showed me his dividend holdings. He explained to me that since most US stocks are undervalued right now, the chances of building a high paying dividend stock portfolio is very good. Since most of you have already have a great dividend portfolio, I thought of sharing his and give you …

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