Weekly Dividend Investing Roundup – May 17, 2008

I am greatly looking forward to this long weekend and time with family at our cabin. It is the time of year that we put the dock and boat in the water getting it all ready to ski. Who knows, we may even get to ski if the weather holds up like it supposed to. We will be skiing in our wetsuits, but it will be skiing nonetheless! It was another interesting week in terms of posts and articles about investing and dividend investing. I hope you enjoy all of these as much as I did!

The Carnivals

Money Hacks Carnival #12 — The Twelve Labours of Heracles – If Your Portfolio Is Down, Just Wait Longer

Carnival of Personal Finance – Most Mutual Funds Still Can’t Beat the Markets

The Posts

A contrarian view on dividends

Commodities are kicking us dividend investors all over the place – for now anyway

Even for long term investors, we need to understand the ‘M’ in CANSLIM

Guess what – couples make money mistakes

Further evidence you need to stay invested

Rising dividends = rising returns

Dividends do have tax implications unfortunately, especially the foreign ones

Dollar cost averaging works, but lump sum is better (if you can do it!)

Long term investing vs. short term investing – guess who wins?

Asset allocation is the key to life

Financial questions to avoid before investing

Pepsi is a dividend compounding machine

The Articles

I am no Christian Scientist, but they write a good dividend article

Five Reasons Sell in May and Go Away Will Not Occur in 2008 – read half way down the page

Dividends don’t lie

Margins are important when using the P/E ratio