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How to Invest a Lump Sum

Investing Strategy, Portfolio Building

How to invest a lump sum. What if you buy at an all-time high right before a market crash? It can be an overwhelming anxiety-inducing puzzle. You can mitigate the risks and buy decisively. So, you received an inheritance, sold a cottage or a boat, or ended up with a chunk of cash from dividends paid in your portfolio or from rebalancing your portfolio. Regardless of where the money came from, you want to invest it; but you’re hesitant, you don’t want to make mistakes. You have to come up a …

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Detect Losers and Find Winners with The Dividend Triangle

Dividend Growth, Portfolio Building, Stock Selection

We all want our portfolio to perform well, but how? Detect losers and find winners with the dividend triangle. It’s an easy way to understand why stocks underperform and detect other risks in your portfolio, like dividend traps or potential dividend cutters. The dividend triangle also proves invaluable to find strong dividend growers that will more than make up for the few rotten apples you might have bought. What is the Dividend Triangle? I coined the term Dividend Triangle to refer to a …

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Deluxe Bonds and Dividend Traps

Blog, Investing Strategy, Portfolio Building

Deluxe bonds and dividend traps are high-yield stocks. Deluxe bonds can play a useful role in your portfolio, but dividend traps can seriously hurt your retirement. Know the difference between them! After writing at length about the qualities of low-yield, high-growth stocks, and the reasons you should have some, it’s time I offer some insight about high-yield stocks. To be fair, high yield stocks are not all bad investments. Some companies provide a source of high income that is fairly …

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Cracking the Code: The Ideal Portfolio Allocation [Podcast]

Blog, Podcast, Portfolio Building

After looking into why low-yield, high-growth stocks matter at retirement and how to find them, we hit an important part of a portfolio: the allocation! Your portfolio allocation explains your returns and its strengths and weaknesses. Don't overlook it; make it perfect! Go back to the previous episodes of the Dividend Income for Like series: Why Low-Yield, High-Growth Matters at Retirement Unlocking My Secret on How to Find Low-Yield, High-Growth Stocks Save Yourself the Notepad! …

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A Guide To Buying Dividend Stocks

Blog, Investing Strategy, Portfolio Building

There is something fundamentally wrong about the stock market; how do you buy dividend stocks at this valuation? This is what you usually hear when you are about to invest. Interesting enough, I’m writing this article in May 2019, but I could have written it 2 years ago when I invested over 100K after quitting my job. I could have also written it back in 2014, once most markets had fully recovered from the 2008 crash. Regardless when you are about to invest, you will likely find more …

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Falling Knives… or Opportunities for You to Catch!

Blog, Investing Strategy, Portfolio Building

Imagine you throw a knife in the air to impress people around you and you try to catch it as it rapidly falls. If you succeed, you look like a pro. If you fail, you will catch the blade and cut yourself. Picking a stock rapidly dropping on the market is like catching a falling knife. Some stocks will bounce back and make a great investment, others will continue to drop and bleed your portfolio. Therefore, we call a stock that is brutally dropping a falling knife. As you can imagine, not all …

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