Why Dividends Matter
Every once in a while I seem to come back to this topic but I think that it is extremely important to remember. Every once in a while an investor will read about the hot sectors and stocks that are shooting through the roof. The natural inclination is to think – hey I should be [...]
10-Top Paying Dividend Investments – According to IBD
Yahoo has posted an article from the Investor’s Business Daily (IBD) that presents a list of 10 dividend paying stocks that they deem as good to ad to an investor’s watch list. Their premise for inclusion on the list is summed up in the following statement: A stock that pays solid dividends AND has strong [...]
Banks as Investments – Works for Me
One of my best performing companies has increased its dividend yet again – an increase 0f 11% to $0.40 per share per quarter. This increases my yearly dividend income to $978 from $929. In addition, Royal Bank had a pretty good run up over the last couple of days in anticipation of the earnings increase. [...]
Way to Go Mutual Fund Companies in Canada
Canadian Capitalist has a good post over at his site that talks about a recent study showing us that the “fees charged by the median fund in Canada is the highest among 18 countries covered by the study in every fund category.” This is amazing. Please check it out – but for those of you [...]
My Biggest Financial Blunder
We all make mistakes, especially in investing. I have and will continue to do so (I am no expert) As one who is constantly trying to improve my returns I make sure that I try my best to learn from these mistakes. It got me to thinking about what types of mistakes investors make. Based [...]
Point of Maximum Financial Risk
I usually don’t do these quick posts, but I saw something on a cool blog – The Big Picture – that pretty much sums up the investment sentiment cycle: I think every investor has gone through this cycle in their investing careers – no matter how short or long they have been at it. The [...]
Shareholder Friendly Management
The recent garbage us Home Depot shareowners have endured with the company’s lack of good judgement at the recent annual meeting has had me thinking about what good shareholder management is. Is it kissing shareholder a$$? I don’t think it should be, but I think that there definately needs to be a great deal of [...]
Perspective: The 10 Worst Stock Market Crashes
In my voyaging through the web on various investment message boards, there is a lot of chatter out there about how poor many investments have done. Many people seem to be questioning their holdings as they have gone sideways or down for the past 3 years. Take companies like Home Depot and General Electric (which [...]
