A Guide to Conservative Income Producing Option Strategies for Dividend Stocks
With interest rates at their lowest point in history, once safe income-producing assets such as 10- and 30-year Treasury bonds have seen their yields plunge to pitiful rates that are just high enough...
View ArticleBuilding a Dividend Retirement Portfolio: A Real-Life Story
Many of us are managing dividend portfolios designed to deliver safe retirement income. I oversee our Conservative Retirees dividend portfolio, which is designed for people living off dividends in...
View ArticleHow to Invest in Business Development Companies (BDCs)
Over the past few years, Business Development Companies, or BDCs, have proven very popular with yield-starved income investors. Given their sky-high yields, this is understandable. But it’s important...
View ArticleWhat Donald Trump’s Win Means for Dividend Stocks
Donald Trump stunned many investors around the world when he beat Hillary Clinton to win the U.S. presidential election. Markets initially tumbled in overnight trading, with the S&P 500 Index...
View Article5 Reasons to Be a Dividend Growth Investor
As a dividend growth investor knows, it’s not exactly a secret that the U.S. stock market has been one of the greatest long-term wealth generators in history. In fact, between 1871 and 2015 the...
View ArticleDividend Safety Scores: A Review of 2016
One of the most important components of Simply Safe Dividends is our Dividend Safety Score, a metric that rates the safety of a company’s dividend payment by scrubbing through its most important...
View ArticleDividend Reinvestment Plans: A Guide to DRIPs
Dividend reinvestment plans, or DRIPs, are one of the most effective tools for income investors to build wealth. History has shown that a long-term, buy-and-hold approach to stocks is hands down the...
View Article“What Should I Do if Another Verizon Happens?”
One of our members emailed me after reading through my recent Verizon article, which analyzed the scary-looking drop in free cash flow that the company reported. Many investors worried that the...
View Article6 Tips for DRIP Investors
Dividend Reinvestment Plans (DRIPs) are an appealing way to put your financial future on auto-pilot. And given that the number one reason by far that most people underperform the market is...
View ArticleShould You Buy a Dividend ETF or Manage Your Own Portfolio of Individual...
One of the big questions many dividend investors face early on is whether or not it’s worth managing a portfolio of individual dividend stocks instead of keeping things easy and buying a dividend ETF....
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