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      Dividend investors were treated well in 2012 with the release of two great dividend books! You probably know that I published my second book this year; Dividend Growth, but there is another dividend blogger who published his book too. Matt Alden from The Dividend Monk (a very good blog to follow by the way) has released The Dividend Toolkit; How To Efficiently Analyse Dividend Stocks.       About Matt Alden   Matt is part of the “DIY …

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    Officially, it’s been 1 year now since we started the Dividend Growth Index. This group project was initiated last year to build a dividend growth portfolio. We are eight dividend bloggers who manage three dividend stocks each. We are allowed to make any transactions we want as long as we announce them (so you can follow the Dividend Growth Index on our blogs). We could also pick stocks amongst Canadian dividend payers and American stocks. It’s not a stock picking …

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  What’s the point of investing in dividend stocks if it’s not to earn high dividend yields?   The main appeal of investing in dividend stocks is definitely to build a passive source of income. Too often, low dividend yield stocks are dismissed to the profit of high yield dividend stocks. Investors are often greedy and look at short term income. Most dividend stocks are paying a dividend yield between 2% and 4%. In my own terms, stocks paying higher than 4% are called high …

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