Including Investing Contributions in Your Budgeting
As an investing blogger, I read a whole bunch of blogs that are personal finance related. Some of them cover investments, but mostly they cover how to live below your means and save as much as possible. A large part of this includes setting and living to a budget so that you know where your [...]
Quality Investing Quotes from Some Big Name Investors
The Globe and Mail, a national Canadian newspaper, has recently begin putting out a magazine called Globe Investor. In the premier edition, Rob Carrick has compiled a pretty cool list of quotes from famous investors such as Warren Buffet and David Dreman. These are what he considers to be 10 pieces of his favorite investing [...]
The Metamorphosis From Mutual Fund Investor to Dividend Investor
Personal Finance blogger Moolanomy has a contest going to win a book by writing a post about our own investing story. I was intrigued by some of the posts that I have been reading in reference to this contest so I wanted to participate. My entry is about my metamorphosis from being a mutual fund [...]
High Dividend Stocks More Attractive in Volatile Markets
In very volatile markets that we have just seen in the last few weeks, and with much more to come, high dividend stocks may be safer in the long term. I think about it in terms of what a company can and cannot control. Although a company’s share price is determined by things like revenue [...]
Risk vs. Reward: Higher Risk Does Not Equal Higher Returns for Investors
One of my favorite sites about a dividend-based investing approach is Dividend Based Investing. I was perusing his site today and came across something I had not seen before concerning risk and reward in the context of investing. I think this applies to our dividend based strategy, more than any other investing concept. The statement [...]
Let’s Put This “Crash” into Perspective
According to the data posted on GlobeInvestor, here are the % price changes for the year for the three big indexes in the U.S. and Canada: DJIA: This Week: Up 0.44% This Month: Down 1.9% This Year: Up 6.2% S&P 500: This Week: Up 1.44% This Month: Down 3.7% This Year: Up 2.5% S&P/TSX: This [...]
Reaching for Yield Is Not a Good Strategy
I often get asked why some of the holdings in my portfolio have such low dividend yields. If I am such a proponent of dividend investing, why then am I not sporting a 5 to 6% average dividend yield in my portfolio. Rather than struggle to frame a response in my own words, I thought [...]
Sometime Things Just Don’t Go as Planned
I have another passion other than dividend stocks (and my family of course!) – it is running and training for races. On another blog I write, The Running Guy, I just had to write a post about how I have dropped out of training and running in an upcoming marathon. Things were just not going [...]
