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. If they need my [...]
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. Here they [...]
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 selecting [...]
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 hold and I [...]
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 it [...]
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 off-the-beaten [...]
Dividends and Your Company Stock
Each month I buy shares of my employer through a share purchase plan. This happens automatically for me – the money is contributed on my behalf to the broker and the shares are subsequently purchased. This is a great program as it is money above and beyond my salary and other earnings. It is also [...]
A Quality Dividend Portfolio Using 5 Investments
There has been a number of posts lately about building a portfolio using only a small number of specific investments. I think this really stems from a recent article run in this months edition of Money Magazine in which they outlined a diversified portfolio using 7 investments. I thought I would put my dividend spin [...]
