Dear Investor, Why Are You Paying Those Fees?
The Eternal Question: To Pay or Not To Pay Fees? This is basically what Paul asked on How I Beat The Market With My Trades. He mentioned that he owns shares of the popular BMO Monthly Income Fund. While I’ve already analyzed this fund, I wanted to add more thoughts on why you should or [...]
Your Take; Dividend Investing; ETFs or Stock Picking?
When I started my series for new dividend investor beginners 2 weeks ago, I noticed that many people disagreed with ETF dividend investing. In fact, there were a lot of readers who claimed that investing in 1, 2 or 3 stocks (for $333 each including commission fees) with $1,000 would be better off than investing [...]
Why Most People Fail at Investing
Investing is hard right? There is so much to learn and every time you turn around it seems like there is a better way to manage your portfolio. Add on top of that the desire to buy high quality dividend stocks using stock market research tactics and it feels like you are never done. I [...]
Why ETF Marketing is Hurting Investors
The one thing that did the most to turn me off of mutual funds was their relentless marketing on how diversified they were. Invest in this mutual fund and you are diversified and safe – is what we often heard. All the while, mutual fund companies were charging enormous fees in the form of high [...]
Top 4 Investing Actions to Take Now
If it has been awhile since you last looked at your portfolio, or even if you have a regular routine of investment actions you take, these are the top 4 things that I believe are essential to effective management of a portfolio. It does not matter if you are do-it-yourself dividend growth investor or use [...]
The Tyranny of Investment Fees
The wonderful magic of compounding returns that is reflected in the long-term productivity of American business, then, is translated into equally wonderful returns in the stock market. But those returns are overwhelmed by the powerful tyranny of compounding the costs of investing. – Bogle (The Little Book of Common Sense Investing) There is such an [...]
Top 5 Ways to Lose Money in Stocks
In a recent series of articles, I challenged a number of other investing and personal finance bloggers to present us with their choice for the top 3 investing mistakes an investor can make. I did some additional thinking of the items on these lists and determined what I believe to be the top 5 ways [...]
What Music Band Nine Inch Nails Taught Me About Investing
Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails (NIN) fame kicked some music label butt in this past couple of weeks by releasing a 36 track album on his own using only the web as a means of distribution. He racked up sales of a cool $1.6 million. I think this is a strong message for the [...]
