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Dividend Income Lessons I Have Learned

One of the reasons I love the investment process so much is because every time I turn around I realize that I have learned something new. Just when you think you have "the game" down, something comes along and knocks you on your ass. Take those dividend cuts by Bank of America, Citigroup, and General Electric for crying out loud. GE was never ever supposed to have to cut its dividend. But it did and many of dividend investors learned a valuable lesson - never assume that dividend growth, …

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Tracking Your Dividend Income

Dividend Growth

For those of you long-standing dividend investors you probably have a method to track the growth in your dividend income. However, for those of you who may be new to dividend investing or perhaps have a number of dividend stocks but have never set up a method to track this income then this post may help you. I have personally been tracking my dividend income for years and find that it is a powerful way to see my investment strategy at work.[ad#tdg-embedded] The method I use is super simple. …

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My 5 Steps to Choosing the Right ETF

Dividend Growth, Portfolio Building, Stock Selection

As an investor who uses index funds as the core of my portfolio (supplemented with dividend growth stocks), I came to the realization a long time ago that not all ETFs are created equal and some were more appropriate for my portfolios than others were. Although originally I never went into the process of selecting ETFs with a series of steps, I have realized upon reflection that I do actually have a process! Each time I look to fulfill my asset allocation requirements, I use these steps to …

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Why 2008 Was An Awesome Year for Dividend Investors

Asset Allocation, Dividend Growth

As I reflect back on 2008, I am caught by the overwhelming feeling that the year was actually a very good thing for dividend investors. It is easy to think that it was a terrible year for our kind! Both Bank of America and Citigroup - long standing dividend payers with wonderful dividend increases year after year - cut their dividend payments drastically. General Electric - the poster buy for dividend growth stocks - elected not to increase its dividend for the first time since the 1970's. …

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Tracking My Portfolio Income

Dividend Growth

The best thing about being a dividend growth investor is watching your dividend income grow over time. As I have written about time and time again, the power of a dividend growth portfolio is the compounded growth that an investor receives . As new dividends come into the account from the companies paying dividends, those dividends should be plowed back into more shares of the best companies. Over time your number of shares grow. Also, with the right companies the actual company dividend also …

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Sold Some Dividend Cut Stocks

Dividend Growth

In a recent post, I wrote about how I had altered my investing code to reflect that I would now be selling dividend stocks soon after a dividend cut. This is quite a departure for me as I traditionally had not sold stocks very often. However, given my primary objective to generate a reliable and growing stream of income from dividend stocks, stocks that cut their dividends do not allow me to achieve this goal and something must be done about it. There are really only two things that a …

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