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I will share my journey with you on my quest for achieving a sizeable passive income stream. I would achieve that by investing in dividend paying stocks which have the tendency to consistently increase their payments year over year.
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Inflation Proof your income in retirement with Dividend Stocks
Build your own inflation proof source of income in retirement with dividend stocksInvestors who are worried about inflation but want to protect their principal are often told to invest in Treasury Inflation Protected Securities, which are indexed fo...
Best Dividend Picks for 2009, 3Q update
Back at the end of 2008, I was invited to participate in a stock picking competition by selecting 4 stocks. At the time I simply included the highest yielding stocks in my portfolio – Con Edison (ED), Realty Income (O), Phillip Morris Internationa...
Dividends Stocks versus Fixed Income
Many retirees who are seeking current income from their assets invest in fixed income securities, most of which provide a stable stream of income. Fixed income investments do have some disadvantages relative to stocks that pay dividends, and thus re...
Cincinnati Financial’s Dividend Surprise
Cincinnati Financial (CINF) surprised investors in a positive way, after the provider of property, casualty, personal, and life insurance products to businesses and individuals in the United States upped its quarterly dividend from 39 to 39.5 cents/...
9 Dividend Stocks in the news
Two more dividend aristocrats raised their distributions last week, bringing the total number of raisers in the elite index to 30. This is quite impressive, given the fact that there are almost 5 more months to go before the year is out and that the...
Chevron (CVX) Raises Dividends; MLPs follow suit
This week’s distribution increases were mainly focused on two of the energy majors and several master limited partnerships. In one occasion with master limited partnerships both the general and the limited partners received distribution increases,...
Reinvest Dividends Selectively
Reinvested dividends have contributed most all of the stock markets total returns over large periods of time. Some dividend investors automatically reinvest their distributions over time, which leads to compounding of their interest. Others do not r...
Dividend Reinvestment is important
Dividends represent a tangible return on investment, which investors can choose to reinvest, spend or just keep in the bank. Unlike capital gains, which can disappear quickly, dividends cannot be taken away from you once you have received. In additi...
Exxon Mobil (XOM) Dividend Stock Analysis
Exxon Mobil Corporation engages in the exploration, production, transportation, and sale of crude oil and natural gas. The company is a component of the S&P 500, Dow Jones Industrials and the Dividend Aristocrats indexes. Exxon Mobil has been co...
The New Dividend Aristocrats
The dividend aristocrats universe is shrinking according to analysts as some companies freeze dividends while others cut their payments. S&P might even consider lowering the standards for the elite dividend index. One of the criteria that could ...
Aflac (AFL) Dividend Stock Analysis
Aflac Incorporated, through its subsidiaries, engages in the marketing and sale of supplemental health and life insurance in the United States and Japan. It underwrites individually issued policies, and markets its policies through independent agents...
Three Notable Dividend Increases over the past week
Ever since Cramer went on the Today Show and advised investors with shorter term goals to sell stocks if they planned to hold for less than five years, he’s been mostly been ostracized in the news. I do believe however that this was a useful piece ...
