Last week, I started a short series about dividend investing for beginners. I noticed that it had generated a few comments as I waved the first option that would be to start with stock picking right away. I still believe that starting with 1 or 2 stocks in your portfolio may put you at risk if you are just starting to learn the investing ropes and you are not fully aware of all the risks. I remember when I first started trading back in 2003, I thought I knew how the stock …
Dividend Investing With Less Than $1,000 Part 1
Since I received access to The Dividend Guy Blog email address, I got a very interesting question from one of our readers. Here’s what Michael had to say: I'm just starting to look into stock investing and potentially dividend stocks. After some initial research, my question is this: How can I make real returns from dividend stocks when the only companies with high dividend payouts have a high cost per stock? If dividends are paid per stock owned, I would need a large number of …
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Contest: Comment on This Post and You Could Win an iPod Touch!
Hello everyone! As you may have noticed, there weren’t too many articles posted on The Dividend Guy Blog recently. This was because there has been a change of ownership. My name is Mike and I am the blogger behind The Financial Blogger and I will be your new host on The Dividend Guy Blog. My friend and I own a few other sites (like The Intelligent Speculator which has been mentioned a few times on this blog) and we have strong investing backgrounds. The reason we wanted to purchase The …
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Three Unique Problems I and Other Dividend Investors Face
Dividend investors are a unique and frankly, quite a passionate bunch! Those of us who have research the topic extensively and believe strongly in it's benefits understand the impacts it can have on our own portfolios over the long-term. As such, I continue to invest in dividend stocks. However, this has created some unique problems not all investors face when building a portfolio based on a strong and balanced asset allocation. One of these unique problems is what to do with those dividends …
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ADRs as a Dividend Investment
For those of you unfamiliar with the term ADRs, it stands for American depositary receipt. An ADR is a stock that trades in the United States but represents a specified number of shares in a foreign corporation. ADRs are bought and sold on American markets just like regular stocks, and are issued in the U.S. by a bank or brokerage company. For dividend investors looking for diversification, ADRs can offer diversification benefits by allowing us to invest in companies outside of the U.S. and …
Vanguard Dividend Lineup
If you have been following me for some time now, you know that I often suggest investors build up a core index portfolio before taking on dividend investing through individual dividend growth stocks. One way to look at that core portfolio is to consider Vanguard's extensive lineup of dividend orientated funds.[ad#tdg-embedded] Vanguard is best known for their low cost indexing approach to investing. Personally, I hold Vanguard Emerging Markets Stock ETF, the Vanguard REIT Index ETF , the …
