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Everyday Life Teaches us Dividend Investing 2009-01-15 15:57:00 Dividend
investing in essence is nothing but slow and steady wins the race. Right from being kids to teenager to adulthood, our lives are full of examples of dividend investing. Unknowingly we all embrace it, we all follow it, and we all practice it, and majority of us are successful in it. However, we cannot see it because it may not reflect in greenbacks and bank balances.
When we Read more:Investing
Dividend Payout Factor – What It Means to Me? 2009-01-12 13:58:00 In one of my earlier posts, I discussed whether a given company should pay dividends. I presented my thoughts and observations on the rationale that developing business does not provide dividends, while mature businesses are more inclined to give dividends to shareholders. I also mentioned that both sides of the arguments are correct and individual investors need to look at from their own invest Read more:Dividend
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Dividend Tree Potpourri – January 11, 2009 2009-01-11 22:40:00 During the week, I read articles from fellow bloggers and participate in blog carnivals. Once a week I highlight some of the articles that I enjoyed reading. I have named this section as Dividend
Tree Potpourri
. Similar to a potpourri, this section will be a collection of posts from fellow bloggers which will spread the constructive scent of differing viewpoints. My Articles in Blogosph Read more:January
Dividend Portfolio – My Performance Matrices 2009-01-09 22:31:00 I have identified my goal and formulated a plan for my dividend portfolio. When I am executing this plan, I need to know exactly how I am doing relative to the overall market. It also helps me evaluate how my strategy is performing. I use few different parameters to measure my portfolio performance. Benchmark: I use S&P500 based exchange traded fund, SPY, as a benchmark for my divide Read more:Dividend
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Dividend Tree is One Month Old 2009-01-08 17:04:00 Today it is exactly one month since I started actively posting on Dividend
Tree. It is a very short time frame, but it feels like I have been doing this for a long time. It has been quite an experience from: early pessimism turning into encouraging optimism;time wrenching schedule impacts to a regular feature in my daily routine;extreme frustration of staring at HTML code to “oh! Read more:Month
Share Buybacks and Dividends – The Missing Fine Prints 2009-01-06 17:49:00 Today, I had an interesting break room conversation about share buybacks. The conversion was in the context of impact of share price and need to provide a down side support. I thought it would be worthwhile to look at it from dividend investing perspective. The business media purports a notion that companies engage in share buybacks to support the down side of its share price. This is good Read more:Share
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Stocks in My Dividend Portfolio 2009-01-05 20:11:00 In order to make my holdings public, I contemplated a lot about how much detail and what information I would be comfortable with in sharing with readers of this blog spot. In the end, I narrowed it down to the parameters that would be relevant to the themes, objectives, issues that I discuss on this blog spot. This will be a good location where one can find how my investments will evolve over a Read more:Dividend
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Dividend Tree Potpourri – January 4, 2009 2009-01-04 22:04:00 During the week, I read articles from fellow blogger and participate in blog carnivals. Once a week I plan on highlighting some of the articles that I enjoyed reading. I have named this section as Dividend
Tree Potpourri
. Similar to a potpourri, this section will be a collection of posts from fellow bloggers which will spread the constructive scent of differing viewpoints. My Articles i Read more:January
My Investment Risk Profile 2009-01-03 21:32:00 Profiling our own investment risk is a very subjective issue. Risk profiling is very much individualistic (i.e. one individual or one family) and I believe everybody would have a unique risk definition. Now it is likely that qualitatively the risk profile could be classified in similar groups. However, quantitatively it would different for each individual. I view my risk profile as a thre
My 2020 dividend cash flow goal – A Simplistic View 2009-01-02 01:18:00 In my investment process, I have mentioned about my 2020 dividend cash flow goals. I am targeting to achieve a dividend-based cash flow of $30,000 by year end 2020. In this post, I am discussing a back-of-envelope empirical exercise to demonstrate the feasibility of achieving this goal. At end of year 2008 the dividend champion list has 128 companies. The annual dividends that these compani
Year 2009 Dividend Portfolio Goals 2008-12-31 00:50:00 This is the first time I will be making my investing goals public. In addition, I also plan to provide quarterly reviews on how I am making progress. My dividend portfolio consists of two investments buckets. One bucket consists of dividend stocks, and the second bucket consists of dividend ETFs/CEFs. Since both of them provide dividend cash flow, I review both in combination (and not stand Read more:Dividend
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Dividend Tree Investment Process 2008-12-30 00:06:00 The purpose of my starting this blog spot is to share my journey in achieving my investment goals. In the process, I expect to continue my learning process by discussing contrasting views, and hopefully make smaller mistakes. Continuing with my motto of keeping things simple, this page describes my seven step investment process in a broader context. I foresee that over a period of time, this pag Read more:Dividend
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Reflecting on Investment Year 2008 2008-12-28 20:09:00 Reflecting
back on Year 2008, I think it will go down in history as a very significant turning point in the economy of United States. I also think that, due to events in Year 2008, other developed and emerging economics will evolve in different way. By different way I mean with reference to how it interacts with US economy. For the last few decades US economy was the engine of growth for world e
My Investment Buckets – An Overview 2008-12-27 08:05:00 My investing style is very much objective driven and I tend to follow the systemic approach. Whenever I think about my investments, I tend to look at from the full portfolio investments perspective. I believe in continuous evolution, and hence I make changes as I learn more about any aspects of investing. I follow combination of active and passive investment process. All of my retireme Read more:Overview
Market Collision affecting Dividend Investors – Concluding Part 2008-12-25 23:22:00 The third theme in the El-Erian’s market collision commentary is the money flow due to sovereign wealth funds. As per an article on Wikipedia, the top 20 sovereign wealth funds have a total of approximately 2.7 trillion dollars (and up to 3.3 trillions including all SWFs). A major portion of this money, if not all, is invested in safest and most liquid US government treasuries. This is a very Read more:Investors
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Market Collision affecting Dividend Investors – Part II 2008-12-24 07:59:00 In today’s post, I will discuss how El-Erian’s emerging market theme affects the dividend investors (DIs). Some of the characteristics that we DIs look for in a company are as follows: Management’s sincere conviction that shareholders have stake in the business and earnings must be shared with them;Dividend
s are paid from operating earnings;Consistent growth in dividends can be maintai Read more:Investors
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Market Collision affecting Dividend Investors – Part I 2008-12-23 07:55:00 In the last post, I presented El-Erian’s major themes that are significantly affecting the financial markets. Taking these themes as a framework, the author presents the asset allocation model that was used under his stewardship at Harvard Endowment Fund. The asset allocation model can be found here and here. The discussion of the asset allocation in this book should be viewed as reflectio Read more:Investors
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Main Themes in El-Erian’s Market Collision 2008-12-19 14:44:00 In this book, Dr. El-Erian focuses on the changes taking place in the world economy. It is a big picture executive summary of the evolution taking place in world of finance across the globe. The author attempts to emphasize these changes by saying that these are signals and not noise. He then goes on to provide a framework for future investments and/or asset allocation. At hindsight, this boo Read more:Market
Book Reviews 2008-12-19 14:20:00 Being an avid proponent of dividend-based investing, whenever I read any financial or general economics book, I am continuously attempting to put the subject matter in the context of dividend-based investing. I am trying to figure out if it should have any influence in my investment process. Recently, I read the book titled “When Markets Collide – Investment Strategies for the Age of Globa Read more:Book Reviews
Should Companies Pay Dividends? 2008-12-15 22:11:00 There are multiple school of thoughts on how companies should use the dollar generated with primary business activity (i.e. selling a product and/or services). Should the company pay back certain amount profits to shareholders or invest back into the business for further growth? To me, it depends upon the company, its business plans and objectives. Whether I prefer it or not depends upon what are Read more:Companies
Dividend Tree Investment Principles and Rules 2008-12-11 11:44:00 In the earlier post I discussed about the goals that I have for my dividend portfolio. In order to achieve that goal, I have come up with few investment principles and rules that I follow and strictly abide by. While I have been dabbling with investing for sometime now, I always had certain criteria at the back of my mind. I never had it formalized and documented resulting in lack of investing d Read more:Dividend
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Dividend Tree Investment Goals 2008-12-08 10:51:00 If I do not know where to go, how can I start the journey? This seems to be a very simple question we face day-in and day-out. But when it comes to investment plans, in general, most of the individuals fall short in identifying the defined final destination. In this post, I will discuss what is my vision and what would I like to achieve in my dividend portfolio. I have started planting the divi Read more:Dividend
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