Do You Have What It Takes To Be A Dividend Investor?
If you are visiting this quiz from the homepage, please click here before doing the quiz, for some reason it does not seem to work otherwise…! We all want to make money and we all think that we can do it through investing. In fact, we are not far from the truth as there is [...]
5 Things You Must Know You Before You Invest
I often meet with people that are looking to start their own investment plans. In fact, several readers find The Dividend Guy Blog or my Free Dividend Investing eBook during their search for beginner investing information. For the past 2 years, bond rates have been so low that more investors are heading towards dividend investing [...]
Day 6: The Dividend Key – Dividends as Defensive Buffers
This is the final post in six part series on The Dividend Key. This final post will discuss how high dividend stocks have fared in down markets. In this study, David Dreman (Contrarian Investment Strategies in the Next Generation) looked at 27 years worth quarters where the markets were down. The results showed that stocks [...]
Day 5: The Dividend Key – High Yields and Low Payout Ratios
The last couple of posts in The Dividend Key series have covered high dividend stocks and the fact that they have been better market performers than low yield stocks. However, it has not been simply buying all the high dividend stocks that has been the most powerful. A study conducted by Credit Suisse Quantitative Equity [...]
Day 4: The Dividend Key – High Dividend Stocks and the Risk and Reward Balance
On Thursday the post in The Dividend Key series talked about High Dividend Stocks and how they performed better than low dividend stocks. One thing I mentioned in that article was how the highest dividend stocks produced better returns with less risk. There is another study on dividends that talks more in depth about this [...]
Day 3: The Dividend Key – High Dividend Stocks
As a dividend growth investor, I am not necessarily after the highest yields. I tend to look for dividend growth as opposed to just yield. That being said, high dividend stock investing has proven to be a positive strategy. Jeremy Siegel, who is famous for his book, The Future for Investors, studied the S&P 500 [...]
Day 2: The Dividend Key – Real Return Comes from Dividends
In yesterday’s post on The Dividend Key, the importance and value of reinvested dividends was presented. Today, I am going to present the findings of a study by Robert D. Arnott that broke down investment returns into their individual components. The study looked at three sources of returns for investors: 1. Inflation – the amount [...]
Day 1: The Dividend Key – Reinvested Dividends
I thought I would kick the new year off with series of posts on why I have focused on investing in dividend paying stocks. There is scads of research out there that speaks to the benefits of a dividend based approach, and Tweedy, Browne Fund Inc. has put together a summary of these benefits and [...]
