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6 Steps to Buy a 7% Dividend Paying Stock With Low Risk

Investing Strategy, Portfolio Building

High dividend yield in a low risk portfolio? How is that possible? Well there is a way that you can invest your money and earn a high dividend yield without taking much risk. I think that’s this is basically what we all want as dividend investors: high dividend yield from low risk stocks. But unfortunately, it is rarely the case. If you remember my yellow pages (YLO) analysis you know that high dividend yield is usually followed by dividend cuts (especially if the dividend yield is combined …

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How To Build a 6 Figure Income Dividend Portfolio with $600 per month

Investing Strategy

Last week, I discussed how to build a retirement portfolio with dividend stocks. Since bonds and certificates of deposit offer historically low rates, chances are that retirees and future retirees will invest more money into “safe” dividend stocks. Following this post, a reader asked me how to build a 6 figure income dividend portfolio. First of all, this is not an easy task; making 100K per year from your investments requires 3 things: A lot of time A lot of capital A bit of luck …

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Investing Myths Debunked Regarding Inflation And How To Beat it With A Shovel

Investing Strategy

With the US Government keeping interest rates at the lowest possible level while printing money like there is no tomorrow (QE3 coming up anyone?), all we can fear is to see climbing inflation rates to come. In addition to this, the prices of commodities are rising and if you live in Canada, it’s not any better as the Bank of Canada resists raising interest rates based on economic uncertainty and a already strong dollar. However, this hasn’t stopped inflation from rising in the …

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Playing With Ex-Dividend Date

Investing Strategy

  Can you play with an Ex-Dividend date? Is there a way to make a quick buck out by trading the stock according to when it pays its dividend? Do you believe in elves and hobbits? Okay… maybe some people look like hobbits… so maybe playing with Ex-dividend dates work… Let’s take a look at this trading “strategy”.   How Can You Make Money By Playing The Ex-Dividend Date So let’s take a look at an example on how you could possibly make money by playing with the ex-dividend …

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Dividend Stocks Vs Corporate Bonds

Investing Strategy

We currently live in a very interesting investing world. I say this because, in some cases, the dividend paid on a stock has a higher yield than the company’s bonds. The bond market is so low due to historically low interest rates that the dividend market seems more attractive. Here are a few examples that I took from my own Dividend Holdings: In order to build this chart, I used the “quicktake” tool from Morning Star. This is an interesting stock analysis tool as it gives you a lot …

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6 Tricks To Manage a Dividend Portfolio With Less Than $10,000

Investing Strategy

As I write on The Dividend Guy Blog, I notice that many young investors are starting their investing journey and looking for answers. If you are interested in investing for dividends but you have less than $10,000, you might think that it’s not enough. You might be tempted to wait longer in order to build a bigger portfolio before starting to invest in the stock market. However, if you are putting your money in an ING savings account for 4 years, you won’t be getting much interest and you …

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