Market Timing Works
Note: Don’t forget that I have a new RSS feed due to some issues I recently had with Feedburner. You can subscribe using your favorite reader by clicking here. …only if you are lucky. I was reading some back posts by one of my favorite bloggers out there, Canadian Capitalist, on a topic that I [...]
Fewer Firms Offering Dividend Payouts
An article posted over at the WSJ presented this chart that highlights the declining payout ratio that companies have been historically paying to investors. However, the article the goes on to elaborate that companies are missing the boat as the number of baby-boomers who will require income from their portfolio gets stronger year after year, [...]
Pension Fund Update
As many of you know, part of my investment assets are membership in my employer’s registered pension plan. As a reminder, the way this plan works is that the company automatically contributes 2% of my earnings into the pension plan. I then choose to contribute an optional 2% at which time my employer does a [...]
The Dividend Guy Asset Allocation
I keep track of my asset allocation on a regular basis. The way I do this is to have a goal allocation that I want to have within my overall portfolio and then compare that to my actual portfolio. Upon analysis of my allocation, there are some areas that I need to focus on. Before [...]
2 Mistakes an Investor Can Make
I was recently surfin’ some investing message boards and came across a great summary of the investment process. More specifically, it was a very simple description of the two kinds of mistakes an investor can make. It really hit home with me. When you filter the investment process down to its most basic level, there [...]
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What Does Ex-Dividend Mean
Ex-dividend is a term that seems to have a lot of people I speak with confused. Many people I talk with on a pretty regular basis think it means the date that the dividends are paid out to shareholders of the company. This is not correct. The easiest way for me to explain ex-dividend is [...]
