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Why Bother Investing in Dividend Stocks When You Have ETFs?

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    Over the past two weeks, I’ve been looking at the top dividend growth US stocks and the top dividend growth Canadian stocks held in the biggest dividend ETFs in terms of market cap. I have explained that by looking at the top dividend ETF holdings, you can build a very interesting list of potential stocks to add to your dividend portfolio.   I started with 2 simple investing principles to build my theory:   #1 Portfolio managers are professionals who …

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This is How You Should Invest Your Next 10K In Dividend Stocks

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    Investing has become an extreme sport of late. If you are looking for growth; you’ll have to ride the stock market rollercoaster. While you will eventually end-up with more money in your pocket, you will have to endure several “end of the word news headlines” and bad quarter results in the meantime. On the other hand, if you are looking for secure investments, you will run into a different brick wall with interest rates around 2% for a five year term deposit. That doesn’t …

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Best Online Trading

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    In this section, you will our top 8 discount brokerage services. We have gone through several online brokerage companies and seek for the highest combination of: -          Low trading fees -          High level of customer service -          Additional features (trading community, free subscription, automatic wire transfers, etc).   You can click on each discount broker chart to learn more about it or open a discount brokerage account.   Here’s …

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QE3 Since When Is Pushing on the Accelerator a Good Way to Avoid a Wall?

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  We have been waiting for it more anxiously than the next release date of a U2 show. After a good 12 months of waiting, the market finally got what it was asking for: more money pumped in the system. Last week, Big Ben (Ben Bernanke) revived the stock market by announcing another round of Quantitative Easing surnamed QE3. The market surged by almost 2% in a single day. I guess we can call this good news… but is it really?   Quantitative Easing (QE) History So …

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Investing and Cash Flow Strategies Through Insurance

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    There are few strategies that could be used to invest or generate extra cash flow through insurance products. Insurance is not exactly part of my usual topics but this post is part of the Insurance Movement hosted by a buddy of mine at Good Financial Cents. It shows the importance of insurance for everybody. Since there are a few ways to invest or generate a steady cash flow by using insurance, I thought it was a good angle to use for this blog. Did you know that insurance …

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