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“It's time in the market, not market timing, that counts”Dividend investing is not a one month process. In fact, I don't think it is even a one year process. Successful dividend investing is all about learning to determine a distinct course of action based on sound principles, and then having the patience and fortitude to let your plan work. Sometimes this patience is required for periods of 10+ years or more. An article on a page from RBC Investments had a good illustration of the need …

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I thought picking my top 3 dividend investing books was going to be something that was easy to do. I was wrong - there are a lot of good dividend investing books available. However, picking the best 5 out of all of these books turned out to be a challenge. As a result, I came up with a list of three criteria that each book had to have to make it to my top 3 list. Here is the criteria I uses: The Book Must Offer More than Just "Selling" Dividend Investing as Good In other words, the …

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The fact that mutual fund managers have not been able to beat their underlying indexes is not new news. However, there is recent news stating these managers are still having difficulty beating the indexes. In an article from GlobeInvestor.com, the evidence has suggested that, "...Fewer than 20 per cent of large-capitalization Canadian institutional fund managers beat the index in the first quarter, according to a survey by Russell Investments Canada. That's down from 41 per cent in the fourth …

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What if you could double your returns on a 5% increase in stock price with no extra work? Sounds good right? That is the sales pitch you often hear from some stock brokers when they try to convince the average investor to buy stocks using margin - or borrowed money to purchase investments. When things go well, margin has the wonderful impact of multiplying your gains sometimes to the tune of doubling your returns. However, what brokerage houses don't tell you is that when things go bad they …

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If you are building a portfolio of individual securities, then the sectors you invest in should be part of your overall asset allocation plan. Recently I ran a post which energy companies are most predominant in a few dividend ETFs. I took this analysis one step further and tried to dissect what sectors dividend ETFs had represented. I do this to assist my own portfolio building process and asset allocation decisions - I want to make sure I have managed the risk appropriately in my portfolio …

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