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Top 100 Investment Lessons I Have Learned – Part 2

In part 1, I began the the very enlightening process of identifying the top 100 investment lessons I have learned. As an investor, and a divdend investor, I believe this has been a valuable exercise for me as it has highlighted the things that have worked and that I should continue doing. Here are the next 25 in my list of 100 lessons: 26. Stock tips received at a party should not be acted on unless you are drunk. That way you have an excuse for your stupidity! 27. Excel (or Numbers …

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Dividend Stock and ETF Holdings

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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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Top 100 Investment Lessons I Have Learned – Part 1

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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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Do High Yield Stocks Mean Lower Returns?

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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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Manager vs. Index Funds: Who Wins

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As a Kiplinger's Personal Finance - Subscription holder, I often find good snippets of information. If you weed through the advice to buy mutual funds then it can be very helpful. Recently there was an article about the actively managed mutual funds versus index funds and a discussion on who wins. Once again, index funds came out on top.[ad#tdg-embedded] In the following image, the results are pretty clear. Over all periods of time, a relatively small percentage of actively managed funds …

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Benjamin Graham’s The Intelligent Investor

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The following is a guest post by Saj Karsan of Barel Karsan, a site dedicated to finding and discussing current value investments.[ad#tdg-embedded] Warren Buffett calls Benjamin Graham's The Intelligent Investor "by far the best book on investing ever written". (A chapter-by-chapter summary of this book is available here.) Buffett studied under Graham while enrolled at Columbia Business School in 1950. The most important idea that Graham put forth in his teachings was the concept of a …

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