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Mutual Funds: Dividend Growth vs Dividend Yield

July 16, 2010

As investors look for anything that might enhance their portfolio’s overall return, the subject of whether dividends are worth the effort have moved to the forefront.  Many current retirees and those poised to retire understand the nature of what this provides but there are subtle differences in what they actually are, the story they tell [...]

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Cash, in Pocket

July 9, 2010

The opening lyrics to James Honeyman-Scott and Chrissie Hynde’s song Brass in Pocket could easily be changed to: “I’ve got [cash], in pocket; got [money],I’m gonna use it”.  Only the cash in pocket has become the huge economic threat of this financial crisis – one that still lingers several years after the fact. We all know [...]

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Investing in 2010: So You Say You Want a Resolution

January 2, 2010

Here are five quick tips for mutual fund investing in 2010. Most of us look at the turn of a calendar year with the hope that the mistakes we made in the previous year will not be made in the new one.  This is noble and in many cases futile.  These attempts are usually too [...]

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Once Upon a Time, Investors Panicked

December 16, 2009

Seems so long ago.  Markets were tumbling. People who owned stocks were selling and running for bonds. People who owned actively managed mutual funds were moving everything they had left to the uncharted and unproven territories that are target date funds or balanced offerings. No one seemed to know what to do or worse, how [...]

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Dividends Tell All

December 10, 2009

We have been discussing dividends on MomsMakingaMillion Radio for the last several weeks. In this segment, we discuss dividends in mutual funds. Could you recap briefly for our listeners what we have already discussed? Our discussion about dividends has offered a brief overview of what they are: profits paid back to the shareholder of record, [...]

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Dividends Can Make a Difference

November 16, 2009

This week on MomsMakingaMillion Talk Radio we are discussing the art of dividend investing. So what are dividends? When a company makes a profit there are basically three things that can be done. Some reinvest it, which is what newer companies or growth companies do. They take those profits and channel them back into the [...]

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