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The Dividend Guy Blog

Unconventional Lifestyle and Dividend Growth Strategy

Retirement

Retirees Make These Fatal Investing Mistakes

Blog, Retirement

Many retirees make costly investing mistakes based on common beliefs or make bad investment decisions based on fear. I think the biggest concern retirees have regarding their portfolio is probably the fear of losing money. The emotional charge linked with managing your portfolio may lead you to make fatal investing mistakes. The feeling that comes with withdrawing money from your portfolio when you’ve spent your entire life adding to it creates big shock. It’s impossible to have a flawless …

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Retirement Vs FIRE: You Got It All Wrong and Both Your Ideas Suck

Blog, Retirement

Retirement is a concept that didn’t age well ~ The Dividend Guy Nope, this is not another article to tell you how those FIRE adepts (Financial Independence, Retire Early) are full of baloney. It’s not an article about how you should shut your mouth and endure your job until you reach 65 to finally enjoy life. So Mike, what’s that article about? It’s about what I discovered by not working for a full year. I’ll share with you what I found deep down my soul after living as a young retiree …

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Top 5%+ Juicy Canadian Dividend Stocks

Best Dividend stocks, Blog, Canadian Dividend Stocks, Investing Strategy, Retirement

Yesterday, I’ve made my list of my favorite 5%+ yielder on the U.S. market.  Finding solid companies paying high yields is a very difficult task. Many investors think they can simply pull out a filter including a 5 year history and some more metrics and they can build their portfolio by picking any stocks in this basket. This sounds a lot like the perfect recipe to suffer from dividend cuts in a few years from now! Since I started Dividend Stocks Rock 5 years ago, I haven’t suffered a single …

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My Favorite 5 Stocks Paying a Juicy Yield Over 5%

Best Dividend stocks, Blog, Investing Strategy, Retirement

Each year, they would receive juicy dividends, see their payments increasing and their portfolio growing in value. Wow! This really looks like buying a seafront house in Hawaii for $200K, doesn’t it? Unfortunately, however, many 5% yielders end-up cutting their dividend. A 5% yield is only good if it keeps getting paid Over the past few weeks, investors got hit by dividend cuts coming from well-known businesses. As I’ve highlighted last week in this article, large caps, dividend achievers and …

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Video of the Week: 4 Mistakes Retirees Must Avoid

Blog, Dividend Growth, Investing Strategy, Retirement

This week's video is not a regular stock pick. Through my latest webinars and reading through comments I received, I realised that retirees are pretty much left by themselves. There are plenty of content about building your nest egg, but there are very few tips on what to do once you retire. In this video, I go through 4 Mistakes Retirees Must Avoid to be able to live from their investments their entire retiree life. Video If you enjoy the videos format and want more of them, subscribe to my …

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Portfolio Management: What If?

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As you know already, I publish a monthly update of my pension plan portfolio. The idea is to show you, month after month, how I manage my own money using my investing strategy. A long-time reader sent me an email asking me to project my portfolio in the future. Here’s the what if he proposes: After 2-3 years, of your 11 U.S. stocks, what if 2 stocks were up 80%-100% (or more), 7 were up/down anywhere from +/- 0% to +/- 10%, and the remaining 2 stocks were down 15%, 20%, or more. What would you …

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