Aug 31 2010

High Dividend Stock Picking Ideas

I know that it is always interesting to get a full throughout analysis on a high dividend paying stock but I thought of searching through the highest paying dividend stocks of the S&P 500. I have used the following filters to produce this dividend stock list: – Dividend yield over 3% – Stock price over [...]

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Apr 8 2009

Quarterly Portfolio Review – What a Difference a Month Makes

Although I do not post about it regularly, at least once a quarter I have a look at my portfolio’s performance to see how I am stacking up against the market. The reason is simple – if my portfolio is not at least meeting the returns of my chosen benchmark then I am failing as [...]

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Nov 19 2008

Calculating My Portfolio’s Annualized Return

I use Microsoft Money to manage my portfolio. I find it very useful to enter and keep track of all the various transactions that occur in a dividend investing portfolio. Through the years I have relied upon the software program to calculate the various returns my portfolio has achieved. However, when I recently upgraded to [...]

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Aug 21 2008

Mutual Fund Returns Versus Individual Investor Returns

(This article originally appeared on The DIV-Net) While listening to the podcast over at SoundInvesting.com, I was referred to an article by famed investment columnist Jason Zweig. In this article he spoke about the difference between what the mutual funds present as their investment returns in market materials and what individual investors actually made. To [...]

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Jun 20 2008

Patience Will Always Reward You in Dividend Investing

“It’s time in the market, not market timing, that counts”Dividend investing is not a one month process. In fact, I don’t think it is even a one year process. Successful dividend investing is all about learning to determine a distinct course of action based on sound principles, and then having the patience and fortitude to [...]

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Nov 15 2007

My Dividend Investing Mistakes

Although the financial marketers would like us to beleive that managing money is a very complex task that only highly-skilled investment professionals and mutual fund managers can succeed at, investing is not that complicated. Sure it takes some planning and education to understand the process and best-practices, but it is nowhere near rocket science. However, [...]

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Nov 10 2007

My Benchmark For Tracking Dividend Portfolio Performance

If you are a do-it-yourself investor who buys individual stocks (i.e. dividend stocks), as many of my readers are, then we are slaves to our investment returns. But how do we know how we are performing. If we earned 12% last year, that may seem like a pretty good return. However, if the overall market [...]

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Jul 20 2007

Year-to-Date Portfolio Performance

Since we are at about the half-way point through 2007, I thought it would be a good time to reflect on how my overall portfolio is doing. As a reminder, and a bit of an update, my portfolio consists of the following “accounts”. I look at my entire portfolio as a whole but in Microsoft [...]

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