Days Like These – Dividends Are Good
It is days like today when the market has dropped a whopping 416 points when the effects of dividends really comes into effect. The most telling thing about today is that if you look at the Dow winners and losers, there was not one winner – that is to say there was not one stock [...]
Roundup of Some Dividend Articles
I was digging around Google’s blog search this morning and came across a few good articlesand spots on the web that I would like to pass along. These are all dividend focused (no kidding you say!) and taught me some things that are important to be aware of. How to Optimize Dividend Income Tax – [...]
Bloomberg Dividend Increases
There has been a bit of talk on a couple of blogs about a new service that Bloomberg has been touting concerning dividend payments. Ticker Sense has a good post about it and actually ran some numbers and came up with a list of stocks that have projected dividend growth rates of above 3% and [...]
Top 10 Reasons Dividend Investing Is Good
I read a lot of articles on the web and books about dividend investing, and find that there is some real consistency in this literature concerning the top reasons dividend investing is a good approach. I would like to present these here and invite your feedback and comments on ones I may have missed. So [...]
The Dividend Guy Asset Allocation
I keep track of my asset allocation on a regular basis. The way I do this is to have a goal allocation that I want to have within my overall portfolio and then compare that to my actual portfolio. Upon analysis of my allocation, there are some areas that I need to focus on. Before [...]
Employer Share Purchase Plans
Employee share purchase plans are great. They are an awesome way to accumulate shares in a company, often with a discount or some other benefit of buying the shares. The way my company’s share purchase plan works is that I tell payroll what percentage of my earnings I want to contribute to the savings plan. [...]
The Secret to Investment Success
Let’s face it – investing is serious business. After all, we are talking about your hard earned money being put at risk for the “chance” of some future gains. One wrong move and you can wipe out a good chunk of capital. Talk about pressure. However, every once in a while we need to step [...]
My Watch List – Dividend Focused
I have developed a watch list of dividend paying stocks that I am going to keep track of going forward. This list is mostly quelled from Michael Sivy’s Sivy 70. I basically took his list, and filtered the stocks that are on either the Mergent’s Dividend Achiever list or the S&P Dividend Aristocrats. This list [...]
