As you know, I'm currently travelling with my family across Central America countries for one year. 100% of my income is coming from my websites. The reason that I'm able to finance my trip through my investing website is that I offer great quality and I'm fully committed to my readers. Over the past six years, I've purchased this blog, built a unique dividend investing platform (DSR) and bought The Dividend Monk. When I bought the Dividend Monk back in March 2015, I did it for a very …
Back to School; The DSR Dividend Growth Investing Course Launches Again This September!
Back in May 2016, I’ve launched the DSR Dividend Growth Investing course. This is a 30 days email course including a complete step-by-step methods covering the following points: Building a stress-free investment process making buy & sell decisions easy; Finding strong dividend growth stocks providing solid returns overtime; Identifying buying opportunities through a proven valuation process; Maintaining a recession proof portfolio providing a steady flow of income. I …
The Bond that Will Kill You
What’s the worst thing that could happen to a retiree? a) 2 golf balls in the lake the same day b) A Barista at Starbucks putting cinnamon topping with whole milk on his Non-Fat Vanilla Latte c) Outliving his savings Once you retire, it’s finally time to enjoy life. It’s time to relax, do what you love most and stop stressing. Unfortunately, this definition of retirement is pretty rare. Most retirees still have to work to fill the hole in their …
How Dividend Aristocrats & The PEG Ratio Can Improve Your Portfolio
This guest post was written by Ben Reynolds, of Sure Dividend The Dividend Aristocrat Index has outperformed the overall stock market by 2.88 percentage points per year over the last decade. A Dividend Aristocrat stock has paid increasing dividends for 25 or more consecutive years. To accomplish this feat, a business must have stable, growing cash flows. Dividend Aristocrats as a whole have made excellent buy and hold investments over the last several years. Not all Dividend Aristocrats …
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Why Do I Find it So Important to Compare My Returns to an ETF?
Each month on this blog, I publish my Best 2014 stock picks for both the US and Canadian markets. I always compare my picks to a dividend ETF. When I look at my own portfolio, I do the same thing. Finally, each month I publish my Dividend Stocks Portfolios at Dividend Stocks Rock and compare them to dividend ETFs as well. Some investors don’t do this because they feel good as long as they receive their dividends on a monthly basis and that their portfolio value doesn’t show a …
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The Split That Makes Me Want More
About 6 months ago, I wrote about how stock splits are more a marketing strategy than anything else. In fact, the real stock value doesn’t change and the individual investor who cares about buying a stock at $30 instead of $90 after a split 1:3 won’t affect much the market. After all, institutional traders (banks, insurance companies, financial firms and pension plans) are the real players in this market. How can you and I influence the stock market when one player can buy $10M worth …
