What is a Good Growth Target
When we evaluate our portfolios or project our portfolio value out into the future, we need to have a proxy for what we should be achieving in terms of growth rate to get there. I have seen a lot of interpretations of what this growth rate should be. The most common one used is to [...]
Covered Calls – Too Risky?
I have been doing some reading recently on the concept of Covered Calls as a way to generate income from your portfolio. To describe what this is, I cannot do any better than Investopedia.com has: An options strategy whereby an investor holds a long position in an asset and writes (sells) call options on that [...]
Where to Get Financial Data
When analyzing a stock there is a ton of research available on the web that can really help. Last night I went through all the sites that I have used in the past and have listed some of them here. Keep in mind that there are a few sites that provide the same data – [...]
TheStreet.com’s Best Large-Cap Dividend Stocks
Although I don’t venture to TheStreet.com very often, I was of course intrigued when I saw that Jim Cramer and his team had a listing of what they consider to be the best large-cap dividend stocks. To come up with their list, they focused on stocks with the following: 1. A minimum market capitalization of [...]
Some Recent Transactions
My dividend paying stocks have been chugging along lately and I have been automatically reinvesting these dividends in more shares, My broker, CSA, takes care of this for me. For the month of October and to-date in November, I have received the following dividends or payments and completed the subsequent reinvestments into more shares: Company [...]
International Equities – Asset Allocation
As I have talked about many times before on this blog, I try to structure my investments so that I am diversified across US, Canadian, and International equities. The purpose of doing this is to ensure that I remain exposed to different markets across the world as theoretically, some markets will be heading up while [...]
Ben Stein on Getting Rich
Say what you will about Ben Stein, but I like him. Probably known best (much to his chagrin I am sure) for his small role in “Ferris Bueller’s Day off” where he calls attendance and calls out, “Bueller, Bueller, Bueller….”. Good stuff. Ben writes a column over at Yahoo’s finance section. He is probably one [...]
Sivy on Proctor & Gamble
Michael Sivy has touted Proctor & Gamble a few times in recent articles. However, in this article he is really laying it on strong. And I hope he is right as I am a PG shareowner, for many of the reasons he speaks about within the article. 1. P&G is the world’s largest consumer products [...]
