Weekly Dividend Investing Roundup - December 14, 2007 Edition

Written by The Dividend Guy on December 14, 2007

Weekly Roundup

As my kids keep reminding me, there are 10 more sleeps until Santa comes! There are lots of great carnivals and articles in this week’s dividend roundup. As usual, some are dividend focused and some are not. However, they all are great and I encourage you to check them out.

The Carnivals

Carnival of Financial Planning

Carnival of Money Stories #38

Carnival of Personal Finance

New Dividend Blogs

A new dividend blog has popped up and it looks like to has been around for a couple of months. It is called the Dividend Investing Blog.

Articles and Posts

First saw this one on the National Post website and then on Canadian Capitalist’s site. The book is called No Hype and it attempt to break down the perceptions people have about investing today. I have not read the book but am trying to get a copy to review.

The scariest thing for a dividend investor is a dividend cut. It can send a stock diving off the deep end and really speaks to widespread problems at a company. Washington Mutual did the deed and Mish talks about it in article, WaMu Cuts Dividend and Jobs.

Just as one company cuts its dividend, another hikes theirs - a lot. Encana, a Canadian energy company, reported their plans to increase their dividend drastically.

Nothing can kill investment returns quicker than huge fees. Free Money Finance proved this in the post, Costs Can Cripple Your Investment Returns.

Man it seems like financial bloggers including me have been talking a lot about asset allocation lately. There is a reason for that - asset allocation is a crucial determinant to portfolio returns. Picking the right asset allocation for your own situation is important, and here are 8 models that My Money Blog presented us with.

Let’s get back to basics here - The Curious Investor provided a good dividend primer on what the different dividend dates mean.

Dividends4Life wrote about 5 lessons learned about investing. Pay particular attention to number 3 and 4: Dividend Investing is About Future Yield, Not Current Yield and Successful Dividend Investing is About Substance, Not Style.

Thanks to all my readers for checking the site out this week! I appreciate all your comments and emails so please keep them coming.


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4 Comments so far

  1. Dividends4Life December 14, 2007 8:34 am

    Thanks for the link to my article on “5 Lessons Learned About Investing”!

    Best Wishes,
    D4L

  2. Jake December 14, 2007 8:55 am

    Great roundup, Dividend Guy. I really enjoy your site.

    The 5 lessons from Divindends4Life are excellent as well.

  3. FMF December 14, 2007 11:34 am

    Thanks for highlighting my post!

  4. Canadian Capitalist December 17, 2007 10:10 am

    Thanks for the link. I liked the book simply for the long list of investments that the author thinks are not suitable for the average investor.

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