To my female readers, pardon the expression, but it is aggressive bear markets that separate the boys from the men. The conviction to hold to a solid investment plan (such as a dividend growth plan) is the cornerstone of good portfolio management and amateur investors typically fare very poorly. I have been thinking about why this is a lot lately and the reason I have come up with is that many investors do not really understand what their true risk tolerance is. I have spoken with many …
Hedging a Dividend Portfolio
I was recently asked by a reader (thanks Edwin) about my take on using a hedging strategy in a dividend investing portfolio. Although I have never done any true hedging (other than covered calls) in my dividend growth portfolio, it has been a huge topic of discussion from many financial pundits as a way to help limit the downside with a sliding portfolio. I did some research on it and wanted to provide a quick overview here, and provide my take on it.[ad#tdg-embedded] The intention of …
The Dividend Guy 2008 Year In Review
Typically on Saturdays I post my Weekly Roundup, which links to a number of the posts that I have found particularly valuable over the past week. However, seeing that we are in a brand new year, I thought it would be appropriate for me to link to a number of the articles I have published over the past year. It has been a busy year both at the blog and in the market. Thanks to everyone for continuing to come back time and time again. I really do appreciate it.[ad#tdg-embedded] January …
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays
I am going to take a couple of days to spend some time with my family and friends this holiday season. There will be no posts on December 24th. I will resume posting on December 31st well rested (I think) and rarin' to go! Merry Christmas and happy holidays to all readers of tDG. See you in a couple of days...[ad#tdg-embedded] …
RSS Update – Please Update Your Readers
I have had some fun with the most recent version of Wordpress, a theme update, and my RSS Feed. I still have not idea what happened, but I have had to create a new feed address. Theoretically, the way I have things set up now, all of my existing subscribers should redirect to the new feed, but just to be safe, you can always update the feed in your favorite RSS reader to the new address. My new feed address is: http://feedproxy.google.com/TheDividendGuy As I work through everything on …
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Switched My Main Broker to Questrade
(This article originally appeared on The DIV-Net) A few days ago one of my colleagues over at the DIV-Net wrote about online brokerages and using Zecco as low cost provider. As a Canadian, I like the sounds of Zecco's low costs however we Canadians are not eligible to open an account with them. In this post I would like to talk about a Canadian broker that I have been using to good effect that offers cheap trades - not $0 trades but pretty close. My primary broker for a long time was the …
