One Guy’s Journey to Passive Income Through Dividend Investing

In another one of my conversations with a coworker on the topic of investing, an interesting discussion came about concerning contrarian investing and what it meant. To this individual in particular, it meant that an investor buys a company that is mispriced lower than an investor believes it should be. I suggested that his definition [...]

One of the investment accounts that I have is through the Canadian Shareowner’s Association’s (CSA) Co-Op Trading Service. Part of their offering is a pre-screened list of securities that passes what they call their criteria based on, “strong growth, financial and operating fundamentals [with] the capacity to continue their strong growth into the future.” Once [...]

We all have all read that it is our responsibility as dividend investors to buy stocks in companies that we know and that we can understand. There is also the mindset that one should invest in companies that you are a passionate user of the products the company produces. I had an interesting conversation with [...]

There is a recent article posted at Bloomberg that provides investors with some advice on things to do to keep a portfolio chugging along, even if we see a prolonged period of weak markets in North America. Among their suggestions are being weary of REITs and looking outside of the U.S. market by way of [...]

As most investors know, there are two types of investors. There are the active investors who actively research stocks through fundamental analysis, technical analysis, top-down or bottom-up analysis, or any combination of these. These investors are actively looking for mis-priced stocks. There are also the passive investors – those investors who invest using index funds, [...]

The are basically two lists is North American that track the dividend increases for thousands of companies: high dividend achievers and high dividend aristocrats. The primary criteria for these lists are a consistent record of dividend increases for a specific number of years. When I say consistent, I mean it. Each company on each list [...]

If you are unfamilair with the Stockpickr! concept, it is a stock recommendation site that allows users to enter a list of stocks that meet their criteria that you can then received as personal recommendations. You enter your favorite stocks and you receive recommendations based on what other hedge funds, mutual funds, and other peer [...]