Weekly Dividend Investing Roundup - February 8, 2008

Thanks to all me readers for your continued readership of my blog and all your great emails. Thanks as well to all the other personal finance and investing blogs for another week of great articles. As usual, here is this weeks dividend investing roundup, starting with the Carnivals.

The Carnivals

Tim Sykes hosted this week’s festival of stocks, which included my analysis of Wal-Mart. According to him it is the most boring stock in the world. That is something that I am very ok with.

The Articles

One the blogs that I consistently read, Donaldson Capital, wrote an interesting article on Uncovering Value with Total Dividend Return. This is from the perspective of Greg Donaldson, Director of Portfolio Strategy at Donaldson Capital Management, an investment advisory firm.

I liked this article from the Financial Blogger because of his #3 suggestion - wait a week before making any rash decisions during a down market.

If you want to see a very positive and diligent approach to dividends and portfolio management, then please check out Dividends4Life’s article on keeping score. This is the first post in a series of two on using tools to see how your portfolio is performing.

Although I am the furthest thing from a short-term trader, Chris Perruna’s blog offers good insight to what is happening with the market and provides some interesting ways to look at it. Check out this article on Where’s the Smart Money Going?

If you have a lump sum of money, is it better to invest it all at once or in smaller amounts - in other word dollar cost average it into the market? From what I understand, the math tells us that it is better to invest it all at once. This article from CNN provides a relatively good answer.

My approach to index investing is to keep it simple - choose the big asset classes, find well followed index funds (or ETFs) that track those asset classes and leave it at that. Don’t try to get fancy and go into real niche index funds. This article from Sun talks about the huge number of ETFs in the market.

A relatively recent addition to my feed list is Create Increasing Passive Income from stocks with above average dividend growth. The article in this link talks about dividend aristocrats.

I like to read other blogger’s stock analysis they completed on stocks, both to see the results as well as to see their analysis approach. Middle Class Millionaire recently looked at ING Canada as he recently took a position in the company.

And finally, there is an interesting post at Political Calculations about finding deals in dividend stocks. An interesting approach to looking at it.

Thanks again to all the bloggers and readers out there.