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I was reading the latest edition of Canadian Moneysaver, which is a great magazine that is Canadian focused but would be of value to any type of investor from any country as it touches on many key investment and personal finance topics. In one of the sidebar boxes, they had a blurb about the fees paid to one of Canada's largest mutual funds: $291,117,000 Yup, you read that right. The Investors Dividend fund pulled in that much from fees. Ok, granted the fund has over $13 billion in …

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Thank you for visiting my TheDividendGuyBlog.com. Financial decisions are among the most important lifetime decisions to most people, and I hope by sharing my experience, more people can start to make better personal finance decisions. TheDividendGuyBlog.com is a free service to everybody, and as I don't receive anything from you nor promise anything to you, I disclaim any liabilities whatsoever from your decisions based influenced by this site. Furthermore, if you use any information in this …

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Ever want to see what other investment 'gurus' are doing with the money they have under their administration. I came across a cool site called GuruFocus that does just that. For example, go in and take a look at Warren Buffet. You will see that on March 31, 2006 he bought some ConocoPhillips, what he bought it for, and how many shares he holds. Although I would never use this site to make my investment decisions, I certainly would use it to generate ideas of stocks that I could evaluate …

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Sorry about the delay in getting the second post of this series out...family, friend, and new job stuff that I had to attend to. Thank you for your patience - here we go. We are about to embark on a wonderful journey, you and I. This is the first in a series of articles posted at The Dividend Guy (http://www.thedividendguyblog.com) that covers my process for selecting stocks and other investments for my portfolio. Before we get into it, I need to make something very clear. The methods …

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