You Can’t Be a Lazy Investor
There is no such thing as being a successful lazy investor. I was reading a book recently at my local library called The Lazy Person’s Guide to Investing and as its title suggests, it offers a summary of investment strategies investors can use. The book got me thinking that albeit a clever marketing title, there [...]
Why Investing is Like Surfing
Being the investor geek that I am, I of course had thoughts of dividend investing pop in my head on a recent vacation to Hawaii while I was trying my hand at boogie boarding. After doing a bit of research on the web, I realized that many of the “rules” or etiquette in surfing applies [...]
Watch Out For These 6 Slick Mutual Fund Marketing Tricks
Want to know where some of the best minds in sales and marketing earn a great living? Mutual fund companies. Mutual fund companies are not in the investment business in my opinion, they are in the selling and marketing business. Sure their sales are driven by good investment performance, but it is also driven by [...]
Investing has Social Consequences Whether you Like it or Not
If you invest in dividend paying stocks like General Dynamics (GD) or Raytheon (RTN) you are contributing to genocide. Of course I am being overly dramatic, but a reader of the site named John made a very thought provoking comment on this post about investing in Exxon who was just added to the Dividend Aristocrats. [...]
High Yield Stocks as Recommended By Micahel Sivy
Is now the time to buy financial stocks with big dividend yields? I am not totally sure of the answer to this question, but one of my favorite authors gave some input on it. I am a big fan of Michael Sivy over at Money.com and his recent article titled, High-yield stocks for retirement provides [...]
What Exactly Are Blue Chip Stocks?
The concept of a blue chip stock is something that all investors seem to inherently understand. However, in the past month I really started to question what blue chip really meant. I am a Citigroup shareholder and I think that the company is regarded as a blue chip stock, the same way that Procter & [...]
How Many Dividends Stocks Should You Have in Your Portfolio?
As investors we are constantly battling the risk versus reward dichotomy. We want high rewards but without all the risk. It essentially comes down to the proper asset allocation and diversification that an individual has within their portfolio. When this question is argued about, it tends to circle around two types of risk: systematic risk [...]
