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The 10 Most Important Things I Have Learned About Dividend Investing

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It's only when the tide goes out that you learn who has been swimming naked. - Warren Buffet Warren Buffet says it best in this famous quote. For investors, the only true thing we have to help us build successful portfolios is learning and being prepared. Investors learn in many different ways - by reading books from other successful investors, by learning from past experiences (and mistakes), and by learning from other people who have done some learning along their investment journey. …

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How I Involve My Family in Investing

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I am the person who manages the money in my family. My wife has very little interest in it, other than knowing how we are doing and where (i.e what accounts we have and how to access them should something happen to me). My kids, who are still very young do not have much understanding of what investing is and why you do it. My wife and I want to start changing this by getting them more involved in the investing process. This post is about how to get your family more involved in investing. …

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Some Concerns with the S&P/TSX Canadian Dividend Aristocrats

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In last week's Roundup I wrote about a news item that you would think Canadian dividend investors would be ecstatic about - the S&P is creating an index of Canadian companies similar to the U.S. Dividend Aristocrats. I have been looking more closely at the new index and I must say that I am not too impressed. I basically have two issues with it: 1. The criteria to get on the index is to have raised dividends for only the last seven years From the S&P fact sheet on the fund, the fund is …

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Buying: Starting a Small-Cap Position in my Dividend Portfolio

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Over the past couple of weeks I have been investigating whether small-cap stocks have a place in my dividend portfolio and how I should actually get small-cap exposure into my dividend portfolio. My conclusions from these two articles were as follows: 1. Small-cap stocks do have a place in my portfolio as they have had good returns historically. In addition, much of a portfolio's return is based on asset allocation as opposed to individual stock picks so exposure to different asset classes …

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Giveaway: The 4 Weeks of Dividend Winners – Week 2 (Plus This Week’s Winner!!)

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We have a winner! As we close out Week 1 of The 4 Weeks of Dividend Winners, I am pleased to announce the randomly selected winner of Christopher H. Browne's The Little Book of Value Investing. Congratulations to Four Pillars of Quest for Four Pillars. I will be in touch shortly. Now onto this week's giveaway book, which is The Single Best Investment: Creating Wealth with Dividend Growth. This is one of my personal favorite dividend investment books simply because of its no …

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Book Review: A Weekend With Warren Buffet and Other Shareholder Meeting Adventures

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In the days of increased corporate governance and shareholder transparency, the annual shareholder meeting can often be a pretty good indication of how shareholder focused a company is. A recent book I read was A Weekend With Warren Buffet and Other Shareholder Meeting Adventures that provided a light and easy read into 22 shareholder meetings the author attended. Each of the annual meetings the author attended were evaluated based on 5 different items: educational value, entertainment …

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