Strategies

My primary life study has been about love. Second comes economics, so here, in the form of a few rules, is a little amalgam of the two fields: the economics of love.

The basic principle behind dividend paying stocks is that they pay YOU to own THEM but do they outperform non-dividend paying stocks over time and what should you consider when buying a dividend stock? Words: 514

I’ve achieved a 15% compound annual return in my personal stock investing portfolio over my 12-year investment career and here are 10 of the rules I followed to make it all possible.

It’s been 12 years (2005 – 2017) and I’m still actively picking stocks with a 15% compound annual return. Hopefully I can keep it up because, at 15% compound annual returns, I can double my money about every 5 years, without taking on too much risk.

I’ve achieved a 15% compound annual return in my personal stock investing portfolio over my 12-year investment career. Here's my investment thought process as to how I invest in stocks, my thoughts on the market, which types of stocks I pick, and why.

The goal of The Dividend Manager website is to provide investors with the ideas and facts they need to make informed decisions. With that being said, there are plenty of other fantastic blogs out there that deserve a look. Here are 5.

There are plenty of really useful free websites out there that have historical market data, back-testing tools, risk statistics and scenario analysis capabilities. Here are a number of them that I have found helpful over the years:

The practice of short selling - or betting against a specific stock or security - has all kinds of intrinsic risks and costs that need to be understood before it should be used as a tactic. Not grasping these risks can lead to all kinds of horror stories. Today’s infographic addresses the question of whether the risk of short selling is worth the potential payoff.

Like casino gamblers, most small resource stock buyers motivated by one or two wins continue to play the game until the ‘House’ has their money. Here’s a few common mistakes retail investors make speculating in junior resource stocks.

Most investors do not have sufficient exposure to equities outside the United States in their portfolios (a phenomenon known as home country bias), even though investing internationally is another way of introducing diversification in a portfolio. Investors interested in looking abroad may wish to look to the Far East – specifically, Japan.