Investing

Would you like to give yourself a raise? You can by simply investing in companies that regularly increase their dividends. Dividend increases mean more money in your pocket. An increasing supply of dividends increases your income. You can use that increased amount of money for anything you wish, or re-invest it and earn more for years to come.

Here are some Canadian companies and their average dividend growth over the last 10 years:

18.2% - Canadian National Railway Company (CNR)
13.7% - BCE I…

I'd like to share a blog post article written by Frugal Trader, which covers the basics of buying and selling shares on the stock market. I was going to write a similar post based on recent emails I've recevied, but Frugal Trader did such an excellent job, it would be quicker to check out his post. 4 steps to buying and selling stocks:

1. Sign up with a discount brokerage

2. Fund the Account

3. Getting Quotes

4. Start

Trading Bonus: Frugal Trader also covers the most common trading terminol…

On June 29, 2010 Tesla went public and issued shares with a starting price of $17 each. Today the share price is $94.84 which represents an increase of over 457%! Should you buy shares in Tesla? Before I answer that question, I'll have to answer two other questions first:

• What is Tesla?
• Why has the stock price gone up so much recently?

Then I will move on the final question:

Should you buy shares in Tesla right now?

What is Tesla?

Tesla Motors, designs, develops, manufactures, and sell…

Safe Investing is the process of making an investment where your risk has been reduced, and the potential for a return is high. Safe Investing allows you to make wise investing decisions. Safe Investing is easy and requires you to apply the following simple steps, by investing in companies that:

1.    Have a strong brand loyalty

2.    Produce products or services that will still be in demand 25 years from now

3.    Have very little competitors

4.    Are consistently profitable, and have low …

The secret to building your wealth over time is simple, buy revenue generating assets. Your home, car, boat, furniture, or gadgets are not revenue generating assets.

In fact these types of assets actually cost you money to own, think about your maintenance costs, insurance costs, and operating costs for each of these items. Revenue generating assets are assets that actually put money into your pocket, and the best revenue generating assets are those that increase the amount of money going into …

Here’s how you can invest successfully and spend only about 15 minutes a month on your investments:

• Keep it simple
• Ignore the media noise on TV, Internet, Radio, and Magazines
• Reduce the fees you are currently paying (knowingly and unknowingly) on your mutual funds

Keep it simple

Invest in quality dividend-paying companies when they are undervalued. Learn when a company is undervalued here. Quality companies are companies that are recession proof, consistently profitable, and virtual mo…

Take a look at your investments, whether it’s in mutual funds, ETFs, index funds, or individual stocks, are you invested in recession proof companies?

If you answered no, then you might be in trouble. Let’s take a look at what is a recession proof company and how do you invest in one.

What is a recession proof company?
The best way to describe a recession proof company is to look at companies that aren’t recession proof. For example, imagine we are in the middle of a recession or downturn in t…

A reader recently asked: "The US cannot keep its interest rates close to zero forever while the debt burden is increasing at a rapid rate. How would rising interest rates affect my "value investment for dividends" stock portfolio? Is it the right time to put serious money into dividend paying stocks if I stongly believe that US interest rates will rise and there might be a default in US debt and/or a massive inflation?"

Here is my reply:

Broadly speaking high interest rates wi…

High dividend yields combined with stock buybacks give you “Total Yield” a term coined by Chris Brightman of Research Affiliates. Shawn Tully from Fortune has recently written a great article on Total Yields which appears in print (Feb 25, 2013 Fortune Magazine, page 31) and online here.

“Brightman sees dividends as a key metric -- but not the sole one. His latest brainstorm is a value-oriented methodology that screens not only for dividends but also for the impact of stock buybacks. In theory,…

Are you suited to buy stocks? Do you have what it takes to be a stock investor?

Kelly Wright (author of Dividends Still Don't Lie) defines six important attributes that you need to have in order to be a successful investor. I highly recommend the book "Dividends Still Don't Lie" which is based on the original book "Dividends Don't Lie" by Geraldine Weiss. Without further delay here are the six important attributes, taken from "Dividends Still Don't Lie" (Page 16):

Stocks are the best investmen…