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We’ve been questions regarding all of the dividend data that we use to analyze different stocks when we try to find the top ones (see our Top US Dividend Stocks and Top Canadian Dividend Stocks), especially about the payout ratio. It seems simple enough but the reader was (rightfully) confused about seeing different numbers between two websites and was wondering which one was right and what could cause these differences. It seemed like answer that might be of interest to quite a few readers so …

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As I am writing this article, I am really wondering: what makes YOU think you are better than the market? Or better than a financial advisor/broker? Is it because of the fees they charge? Is it because you think you can time the market? Or do you simply believe that ETF investing or Dividend Investing are better strategies that will always outperform the market? I want to know your reason… as I am in the same boat ;-) In my day job as a financial planner, I encounter a lot of people who …

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The following is a guest post from Demitrios from Sigma Swan. He is a new member of the Div-Net Network. "If you take the whole history of Berkshire Hathaway, and you take out the 20 best transactions, our record is a joke." -Charlie Munger, Vice-Chairman of Berkshire Hathaway We investors spend a lot of effort trying to protect ourselves from the danger of a default in our portfolio. The brutal math we aim to avoid is plain: the results of any string of positive numbers, no matter …

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