RRSP Contribution
I just made my final RRSP contribution for the year. For my US readers, and the definition of an RRSP can be found here – think of it kinda like a 401K. My plan is to invest this money into more General Electric stock. This will bring my investment in this stock more in line [...]
Carnival of Personal Finance
As I am the upcoming host of the Carnival of Personal Finance, please submit posts to me at info@thedividendguyblog.com or here. See you all Monday!
Another Good Dividend Blog
One of my colleagues over at the Financial Webring has another dividend-based investing blog. On this site, you will find recent changes to dividend paying stocks as well as a couple of really good articles here and here. The first article provides some good advice on the ramifications of a company cutting (or omitting) its [...]
Dividend Increases Slowing Slightly – Who Cares?
wysockiman over at the Motley Fool discussion boards posted this article from the LA Times in the Dividend Growth Investing forum (use BugMeNot if you don’t want to sign up): Cash Dividend Hikes FlattenBy Tom Petruno, Times Staff Writer U.S. companies in the third quarter turned cautious about raising cash dividend payments to shareholders, after [...]
Welcome to the New and Improved ‘The Dividend Guy’
Welcome to my newly transferred site off of Blogger to my own host using an amazing piece of blogging software called WordPress. The process was relatively painless, just a bunch of research and making sure all my ducks were in a row, so to speak. If anyone wants information on how to do this, I [...]
My Poorest Performing Investment – Merck
Right now, the worst performing investment in my portfolio is Merck. I made my first purchase of Merck in December of 2003. At that time, things were not looking great for pharma but I liked Merck’s numbers and the fact that they had been consistently raising the dividend year after year. In fact, I ended [...]
My Personal Finance Strategy
As part of my entire personal financial management plan, I have been looking at some of the debt and emergency reserves that I have and want to take action immediately. I have been thinking about it for some time now, but this post over at It’s Your Money really got me thinking about it again. [...]
Slow Progress
I have been on vacation for the past week and half and the life of leisure is a wonderful thing. Today, my kids and I headed out to Banff, Alberta just to hike around and I got to thinking how much I enjoy the ability to just go out and do whatever I want. That [...]
