Oct 31 2011

What’s Your Investing Horror Story?

  For Halloween, I thought it would be fun to hear about your investing horror story. We all brag about how we have made a great move (as I always boast that I bought my first house with the trading profit from a leveraging Manoeuvre!). But we rarely talk about our worst trade, the one [...]

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Jul 11 2011

Chasing Highest Yield Dividend Stocks Is Chasing Your Own Loss

With a shaky stock market and low interest bonds, I can see people going crazy for income producing assets. Some of them are the Highest Yield Dividend Stocks. However, chasing the highest yield dividend stock is not necessarily a good idea.   After reviewing a portfolio paying an 8% dividend yield, I wanted to share [...]

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Apr 20 2011

Top Canadian Dividend Stocks – Is There Anything Good Besides Banks?

If you are Canadian and you are looking to invest in dividend stocks, I am ready to bet my first born (not really!) that you have Canadian banks in your portfolio. Why? Because Canadian Banks have several awesome qualities any dividend investor is looking for: – They are leaders in their industry (they are actually [...]

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Apr 6 2011

Founder Operator Shares – Are They Better For Your Wallet?

I had this interesting conversation with a stock broker the other day; we were discussing if there was a difference for an investor to buy shares of a founder-CEO or an “employee” CEO.  This particular stock broker was a big fan of founder operators and believed that these stocks would outperform the stock market. When [...]

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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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