Dividend Paying Sin Stocks – Follow Up
As a follow up to this post, there has been some developments with tobacco companies up here in the Great White North. It appears that the British Columbia government is going to sue Rothmans in order to recover billions of dollars in health-case costs. These types of lawsuits are a definite risk of investing in [...]
DRIPs – Dividend Reinvestment Plans
About 5 years or so ago, I held a couple of DRIPs outside of a brokerage account. I went through the whole process: Bought 1 share of Johnson and Johnson and 5 shares of Pepsi to get started. The number of initial shares that are required is dependent on the company. A good place to [...]
A Strong Financial Plan
Ray over at “The Millionaire Blog” posted an interesting synopsis of what constitutes a good financial plan (according to Dave Ramsey). You will notice that at the root of it all is the planning – and that a plan is useless unless it is carried out. Easier said than done. I tend to focus on [...]
Real Estate As An Asset Class
I was speaking with a friend of mine the other day about asset classes, and the topic of real estate as an asset class came up. We were under the impression that there are really two ways to hold real estate: Investing in Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) that purchase and hold real estate investments; [...]
Vanguard to Offer Dividend Fund
According to this link Vanguard is going to be offering a fund focused on dividend achievers – what their definition is for this I cannot tell, but I am assuming it is based on S&P’s Dividend Achiever’s Index. A good thing for those of you who do not want to research individual stocks and want [...]
Example of a Good Buying Opportunity?
I read this article in the paper on the weekend and it struck me as one of those potentially good buying opportunities that come about every once in awhile: Teachers’ Plan Sells Off Nexen CALGARY — The Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan is selling off 7.5 million of its shares in oil and gas company Nexen [...]
Welcome to the New and Improved ‘The Dividend Guy’
Welcome to my newly transferred site off of Blogger to my own host using an amazing piece of blogging software called WordPress. The process was relatively painless, just a bunch of research and making sure all my ducks were in a row, so to speak. If anyone wants information on how to do this, I [...]
