Weekly Dividend Investing Roundup - May 3, 2008

Written by The Dividend Guy on May 3, 2008

Weekly Roundup

This was a good week for me as I received the pension plan contribution and employee stock purchase matches on my recent salary increase and bonus. It always feels good to get this additional money. My plan, as has been for awhile now, is to deploy these funds to get closer to my target asset allocation. This may mean some dividend stock purchases as well - I will let you know what I decide to do it when it happens.

Before I get into the Roundup, I want to thank Smarty over at Growing Money. He ran a recent stock market challenge and asked participants to pick a stock that would perform well in April. My pick was Citigroup as the mood at the beginning of April was very doom and gloom and I thought we might see a bump. Turns out I was right and won, however it was due to the fact that one of the participants did not meet all the entry requirements.

However, the purpose of this post is to provide some high-quality links to various resources across the web that focus on the investment process, including dividend investing. As usual, I will start with the Carnivals I participated in and then move on to blog posts and articles.

The Carnivals

The Carnival of Everything Finance included my post on Returns of Growth Versus Value Stocks.

The Carnival of Personal Finance included my post on sector allocation.

The Posts

Amateur Asset Allocator asks, “Should I Become an Income Investor“.

Quest for Four Pillars talked about one of my new holdings, the Vanguard U.S. REIT (VNQ).

Sun provided one of my favorite type of posts, the portfolio review.

See Me Get Rich also talked about his portfolio, specifically the dividend payments he received.

Why the fuss over dividends - Moneygardener asks this very question.

Not investing is a bad mistake to make - especially with all the resources available to you.

Long Term Investing according to Everything Finance.

More investment portfolio performance from Canadian Dream.

Dividend paying stocks versus growth stocks at Free Money Finance.

The top dividend growing REITs.

Systematic investing is powerful.

The Articles

Much too young to play it safe.

This is not a good picture Peter Bernstein paints of these market.

Watch out for brokers scamming you on your statements.

Looking for high yield ETFs?

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5 Comments so far

  1. Four Pillars May 3, 2008 7:30 am

    Neat - what did you buy VNQ at?

    I still haven’t bought any yet.

    Mike

  2. moneygardener May 3, 2008 7:55 am

    great articles….thanks for the link too.

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