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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 - [...]
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 [...]
Creating an Investment Plan
There has been some good posts and resolutions from personal finance and investment bloggers as a result of Cash Money Life’s Financial Resolution for 2008 request. It has had me thinking about writing a post about how to define investment goals and objectives. Patrick presented a very common way to help prepare goals [...]
3. The Dividend Guy’s Guide to Building a Dividend Portfolio: Asset Allocation
Disclaimer: Remember, nothing in this post, or any other post on this blog is to be considered as investment advice.
Here we go with post #3 in the series, The Dividend Guy’s Guide to Building a Dividend Portfolio. In this post I am going to discuss Asset Allocation.
Keep in mind that I am not [...]
