Archive for June, 2008

Jun
19

Frank
Dividend Investing, Make Money, Passive Income
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I’ve been working to reallocate my income portfolio (a taxable brokerage account separate from retirement savings, which I use to build up a long term income source) to 50% US and 50% international. While I’m fairly comfortable with analyzing and choosing stocks here in the US, I prefer to take a broader approach when it comes investments globally. With this in mind I’ve been looking around to see what ETFs are available for a dividend-focused investor like myself.

One such ETF that I came across is DEM, or Wisdomtree’s Emerging Markets High-Yielding Equity Fund. This fund picks out stocks

Jun
16

Frank
Dividend Investing
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Its always fun to turn on CNBC and find out what all the hated sectors. “Stay away from X, talking head says, due to Y and Z factors” is an all too common statement. Some analysts will be bearish, some bullish, and of course Mr. Market will have his say as well. With the recent sub-prime mess and an uncertain outlook on how bad things will get, financial stocks have gotten crushed.

Some businesses have already been shaken out. Bear Stearns bit the big one, and got swallowed up by JP Morgan. If a financial institution that survived the great depression

Jun
11

Frank
Adsense, Make Money, Tutorial
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For me, creating alternate income is a means to an end. I research dividend-paying stocks and invest as a means to create yet another additional source of income. This allows me the luxury of creating wealth with residual payments regardless if I happen work that day or not. Whether through investing or other means, this is the real crux of alternate income, generating money in such a way that you don’t have to work as hard as you do now, giving you the time freedom you desire to pursue your life’s interest.

In my continuing quest to find sources of said

Jun
03

Frank
Dividend Investing
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It’s interesting looking back and realize I only really began investing about a year and a half ago. I made some pretty boneheaded moves at the time, of course, but eventually came into my own and really found a method to investing that suited my style. Since then I’ve been slowly building up my dividend income, despite my commitment to paying off debts first (I hate debt, always have and always will!) and my need to save for other things like retirement and a house, my brokerage account has continued to grow in small amounts.

With this in mind I thought

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