Dividend Investing Can Be Boring
As I was sitting her thinking what to write, it dawned on me that if I was writing about small-caps or oil stocks then there would be constantly something to write about – this small company did this and its stock skyrocketed (or tanked), oil stocks shot up 5% as OPEC cut production. With dividend [...]
Wal-Mart To Offer Brokerage Service – Time for Everyone to Sell!
In a recent artcile posted over at Money.com, it was reported that Wal-Mart (disclosure – I own Wal-Mart) is teaming up with Sharebuilder to offer brokerage services to its customers. The article talked about how Wal-Mart is looking to sell everything to its huge customer base, just as Sears tried to do once before but [...]
Dividend Money – Blog to Check Out
As you all know, there any many blogs out there that focus on similar topics. For example, dividend investing. One such blog I have been reading is Dividend Money, which has provided me with a consistent reminder of why I enjoy dividend investing. Based on his Feedburner subscribers, he has a pretty good following of [...]
Insane Mutual Fund Fees
I was reading the latest edition of Canadian Moneysaver, which is a great magazine that is Canadian focused but would be of value to any type of investor from any country as it touches on many key investment and personal finance topics. In one of the sidebar boxes, they had a blurb about the fees [...]
Pension Fund Update
As many of you know, part of my investment assets are membership in my employer’s registered pension plan. As a reminder, the way this plan works is that the company automatically contributes 2% of my earnings into the pension plan. I then choose to contribute an optional 2% at which time my employer does a [...]
Sell in May and Go Away?
The old adage goes that an investor should sell their holdings in May and go away until the fall when stock tend to pick up again. I think that this should be rephrased: A speculator should sell in May and go away, an investor should care less about this and just continue on with their [...]
