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Generate More Income With This Smart Trade

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Every quarter, my team and I review our Dividend Stocks Rock portfolios. We use our portfolio booklets (you can find mine here) to analyse a few points such as: Our current sector allocation (ideally less than 20% per sector) Each holding’s weight in our portfolio (ideally an equally weighted portfolio) Each holding’s ratings (PRO rating and Dividend Safety Score to make sure we are on the right track) When we reviewed our retirement portfolios, the first thing that came to my mind …

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Vietnam for A Family of Five – Lifestyle Design

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I booked my airplane tickets! My whole family gets to visit Vietnam for 30 days in January! “You are lucky.” I hear that one all the time…. Or “You must be financially independent?” “Do you live of your dividend income?” And my kids at school hear this one “Damn, you’re rich!” No, no, no and not yet! I will always remember that summer day back in 2014 when my wife and I were chatting around a nice cabernet sauvignon on our terrace and in fifteen minutes we decided to quit everything …

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Retirees Make These Fatal Investing Mistakes

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Many retirees make costly investing mistakes based on common beliefs or make bad investment decisions based on fear. I think the biggest concern retirees have regarding their portfolio is probably the fear of losing money. The emotional charge linked with managing your portfolio may lead you to make fatal investing mistakes. The feeling that comes with withdrawing money from your portfolio when you’ve spent your entire life adding to it creates big shock. It’s impossible to have a flawless …

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Retirement Vs FIRE: You Got It All Wrong and Both Your Ideas Suck

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Retirement is a concept that didn’t age well ~ The Dividend Guy Nope, this is not another article to tell you how those FIRE adepts (Financial Independence, Retire Early) are full of baloney. It’s not an article about how you should shut your mouth and endure your job until you reach 65 to finally enjoy life. So Mike, what’s that article about? It’s about what I discovered by not working for a full year. I’ll share with you what I found deep down my soul after living as a young retiree …

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Top 5%+ Juicy Canadian Dividend Stocks

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Yesterday, I’ve made my list of my favorite 5%+ yielder on the U.S. market.  Finding solid companies paying high yields is a very difficult task. Many investors think they can simply pull out a filter including a 5 year history and some more metrics and they can build their portfolio by picking any stocks in this basket. This sounds a lot like the perfect recipe to suffer from dividend cuts in a few years from now! Since I started Dividend Stocks Rock 5 years ago, I haven’t suffered a single …

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My Favorite 5 Stocks Paying a Juicy Yield Over 5%

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Each year, they would receive juicy dividends, see their payments increasing and their portfolio growing in value. Wow! This really looks like buying a seafront house in Hawaii for $200K, doesn’t it? Unfortunately, however, many 5% yielders end-up cutting their dividend. A 5% yield is only good if it keeps getting paid Over the past few weeks, investors got hit by dividend cuts coming from well-known businesses. As I’ve highlighted last week in this article, large caps, dividend achievers and …

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