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Want to know where some of the best minds in sales and marketing earn a great living? Mutual fund companies. Mutual fund companies are not in the investment business in my opinion, they are in the selling and marketing business. Sure their sales are driven by good investment performance, but it is also driven by how well they sell the dream. According to a study by Henrik Cronqvist of The Ohio State University, Fisher College of Business, Department of Finance, U.S. mutual funds spend about …

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If you invest in dividend paying stocks like General Dynamics (GD) or Raytheon (RTN) you are contributing to genocide. Of course I am being overly dramatic, but a reader of the site named John made a very thought provoking comment on this post about investing in Exxon who was just added to the Dividend Aristocrats. He asked whether I considered the social consequences of my investing decisions when deciding to buy a stock. This is something I wrote about a couple of years ago and wanted to …

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As investors we are constantly battling the risk versus reward dichotomy. We want high rewards but without all the risk. It essentially comes down to the proper asset allocation and diversification that an individual has within their portfolio. When this question is argued about, it tends to circle around two types of risk: systematic risk and unsystematic risk. Here are definitions of each type of risk from Investopedia: Systematic Risk: The risk inherent to the entire market or …

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The Globe and Mail, a national Canadian newspaper, has recently begin putting out a magazine called Globe Investor. In the premier edition, Rob Carrick has compiled a pretty cool list of quotes from famous investors such as Warren Buffet and David Dreman. These are what he considers to be 10 pieces of his favorite investing advice. Here are the 10 quotes from the article - I would encourage you to check out Rob's articles at The Globe and Mail as there is some good additional commentary about …

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Personal Finance blogger Moolanomy has a contest going to win a book by writing a post about our own investing story. I was intrigued by some of the posts that I have been reading in reference to this contest so I wanted to participate. My entry is about my metamorphosis from being a mutual fund investor to a dividend investor. My interest in investing started when I was about 12 years old while spending summers at my grandparent's cottage. Everyday few days my Granddad would go to the …

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