Three Essential Dividend Portfolio Question Every Investor Must Ask Now
There are three components to an investment plan that every dividend investor must ensure is in place. In my opinion, before you make another move in your portfolio these aspects must be addressed. The risks of not doing them places you with too much risk and with too much risk comes emotional decisions [...]
Contributions Matter (Most)
When it comes to dividend investing, retirement, or any other investment related topic we as investors are always very focused on the return we are going to generate. What is the historical return of the stock market? What is my estimate for how the market will perform over the next 25 years. What rate of [...]
I Am An Active Procrastinator
My wife tells me I am a procrastinator. She is usually referring to things like cleaning the bathroom or putting my glass in the dishwasher. I know I also procrastinate on other things, but I never procrastinate in two areas of my life. First, is when it comes to my kids. [...]
Knight Kiplinger’s Investor’s Manifesto
I digitally subscribe to Kiplinger’s Personal Finance Magazine through the Zinio Reader (affiliate link but I really do love it!) and there was a pretty good article by the magazine’s founder, Knight Kiplinger. In this article, he outlines what he calls his investor’s manifesto or rules he lives by in his investment life. [...]
My 5 Steps to Choosing the Right ETF
As an investor who uses index funds as the core of my portfolio (supplemented with dividend growth stocks), I came to the realization a long time ago that not all ETFs are created equal and some were more appropriate for my portfolios than others were. Although originally I never went into the process of [...]
5 Successful Traits of a “Successful” Investor
(This article originally appeared on The DIV-Net) Notice I did not say trader. There is a difference between trading and investing and it is important to distinguish between the two. The problem is that these days the people who actively trade their portfolios are very vocal about the death of buy and [...]
The Top 6 Things I Learned from The Market Crash of 2008
2008 was (still is?) the worst stock market and economic period I have had to live through, and I don’t think I am faring that poorly. I still have a good job in a foreign company as an expat, my stock portfolio is not down to zero, I sold out of Citigroup (even if [...]
Invest When It Feels Like the End of the World
I just finished reading a fascinating book that I thought had one very powerful message, given the market that we are in today. The concept of the book is the author’s journey around the world via a tricked-out Mercedes Benz as he experiences life and considers investments in some of the most remote and [...]
