As you probably know from reading my blog, I’m a huge fan of dividends and recurring income. I like to think of myself as an out of the box kinda guy. I managed to pull in a few grand once by camping in second life with a number of zombie machines for a few months with an investment total of $150 for a few computers that were just powerful enough to run the game 24/7. It took me about an hour a week to keep the “grid” going, and it netted me $100 a week for about 6
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
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
A lot of bloggers that write about dividends often mention real estate as a way to bring in yet another source of alternate income. If you’re good enough, you can go out, buy an investment property, and make some money on the side after maintenance expenses, taxes, and the mortgage. There’s something about Real Estate that has made me very iffy about getting into it however. I can’t seem to get over this hurdle, because it goes against the fiber of how I live and what I believe in. Sounds like a serious issue? It really shouldn’t be, but it
I’m always on the lookout for firms that consistently raise dividends or spotting trends of increasing dividends. With that in mind, let’s take a look at some companies that raised their dividend payouts in recent weeks! FactSet Research Systems (FDS) raised it’s quarterly dividend by 50% to 18 cents per share. I’ll be trying to keep track each week of notable firms that are out there raising
Barrick Gold (ABX) raised it’s dividend semi-annual dividend by 33% to 20 cents per share.
PepsiCo (PEP) [Note: I'm a fan of this one] raised its annual dividend by 13% to $1.70 per share.About Me
My name's Frank and I'm a life long seeker of passive income and dividends. I work in Financial Services and invite you to join me in my search for the holy grail of finance: passive income. My methods tend to be unorthodox but effective. Whether it's through investing or other means, I believe in creating many sources of income to give me the flexibility to live the life I want, when I want it.
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