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Welcome to the October 11th, 2008 edition of The Dividend Guy’s weekly roundup of posts and articles about investing, dividend and non-dividend related. Once again a good week in terms of posts and information for all of us avid blog readers.
The DIV-Net
Hold your resolve on the dividends
Investor sentiment
Should you reinvest your dividends
Dividend increases are still happening
Cramer has a rear view mirror
Is oil demand really falling
More dividend increases
A fine mess we are in
Some people are buying dividend stocks – should you?
The continuation of a quality short-term plan
The Articles
Dividend yield stocks and their debt loads
Read a stock chart in 5 seconds
Some short-term investment winners
Bad Board of Directors are why we are in this mess
Pros and cons of dollar cost averaging
Mistakes can kill you in these markets
Britney Spears spends a crap load of money
Investing myths
Bad markets followed by violent recovery
Many many many people are sitting on huge paper losses
Retirement accounts losing money – some ideas on what to do
Fix the problems, not the symptoms
The death of index investing?
Are we having fun yet…remember markets go through cycles and this is just a down period!
This is definitely an interesting time for the world economy. This is the first big down market I’ve experienced since I really started socking away as much money as I could. (I started around the end of the tech bubble and I only had a few grand saved after September 11th). So this is very eye opening for me. I’m still taking the long term approach and investing for retirement – which is still about 30 years for me. I plan on continuing to invest with dollar cost averaging via my company’s 401(k) plan. Since I’m investing for the long term, I don’t mind if the depressed market hangs around awhile (more asset accumulation on my end). However, I understand a lot of people need the money for retirement now, so for their sake I hope it rebounds. I still have plenty of time to build a nest egg!
Thanks for the mention. 🙂
These are really tough times for investors. But it is in tough times when your course of action should be to be a contrarian and ignore all the great depression mumbo jumbo. Instead purchase some good quality dividend stocks at depressed prices.
Best Regards,
Dividend Growth Investor
I’m wondering if anyone knows of an online calculator where you could put the following in:
Stock price
Shares
Dividends
Dividend Growth
So you could calculate what the dividends might be 10-20 years down the road if they company stays true with their dividend growth strategy. Of course an even better calculator would allow DRIPs so you can see that company ABC is selling for $20 a share and has a 3% dividend yield. Their growth rate for the past 10 years is 8%.
If I buy x shares now, what will my dividends be in 10 years if I continually reinvest the dividends?
Adam,
Is that what you had in mind?
http://www.compounding-dividends.com/dividend-growth-calculator/
Best Regards,
Dividend Growth Investor
That’s *exactly* what I was looking for. Thanks!!!!