Top 8 “Other” Ways to Save Money on Your Investments
As readers of investing and finance blogs, you have probably heard of the cardinal rules for saving money when managing your investment portfolio. These rules include such things as keeping buying and selling of securities to a minimum to reduce transaction costs, only buying low cost mutual funds or index funds, and not buying load [...]
Weekly Dividend Investing Roundup – September 28, 2007
Howdy there partner! Welcome to the September 28, 2007 edition of The Dividend Guy’s Weekly Roundup of interesting articles to do with dividend investing, or other articles I learned something from. I hope you receive something from these as well… 1. My Money Blog discusses the Dow Jones Industrial Index and the flaws that exist [...]
Does Contrarian Investing = Value Investing?
In another one of my conversations with a coworker on the topic of investing, an interesting discussion came about concerning contrarian investing and what it meant. To this individual in particular, it meant that an investor buys a company that is mispriced lower than an investor believes it should be. I suggested that his definition [...]
Pre-Screened Securities Through Your Broker
One of the investment accounts that I have is through the Canadian Shareowner’s Association’s (CSA) Co-Op Trading Service. Part of their offering is a pre-screened list of securities that passes what they call their criteria based on, “strong growth, financial and operating fundamentals [with] the capacity to continue their strong growth into the future.” Once [...]
Weekly Dividend Investing Roundup – September 21, 2007
There was a lot of news this week in the investing and dividend investing world. Like last week’s roundup, this weeks roundup up will include interesting articles from the news, and posts from other dividend bloggers that I found especially interesting. 1. Dividends Matter wrote a good analysis on Canadian National Railway Company, who has [...]
Buying Stock in a Company Just Because You Love The Products?
We all have all read that it is our responsibility as dividend investors to buy stocks in companies that we know and that we can understand. There is also the mindset that one should invest in companies that you are a passionate user of the products the company produces. I had an interesting conversation with [...]
Impacts of Investing in the Most Profitable Sector of the S & P – Financial Services
First off, before we get into today’s post, thanks to Credit Card Lowdown for posting this week’s Carnival of Money, Growth and Happiness. There is an interesting “thought piece” over at the Money.com site that has a number of experts presenting their thoughts on what the future has in store for us. From a purely [...]
Weekly Dividend Investing Roundup
I would like to start a new feature here at The Dividend Guy that I must admit is not my own idea. It comes from one of my favorite investing blogger and his weekly “This and That” section of his site: Canadian Capitalist. I am going to call it The Weekly Dividend Investing Roundup (creative [...]
