Dividend Income Report for May 2015

May was a good month. The weather was mostly good, I got some stuff done that I had been aiming to do, my expenses were a little lower than usual,…

My Latest Buys: FGB, HHY

This is going to be a very short post. On May 5th (Yes, I know this posting is rather late. Sorry about that.) I bought 100 shares of FGB at…

Top 3 Disadvantages of Dividend Investing

There's no such as thing as the perfect investment, as all investments have at least one negative quality that an investor must accept in order to realize the benefits of…

Top 5 Advantages of Dividend Investing

Investing for dividend income is one way to utilize your investing dollar. As with any form of investing, dividend investing has its positive and negative qualities, because there is no…

Dividend Income Report for April 2015

Not only does April showers brings May flowers, but April also brings another month of dividend payouts to happy shareholders. And happy shareholders reinvest in more dividend stocks to compound…

My Latest Buys: CTCM, FGB, HHY

I sold off the last of my employer's stock options last week, so I had a small windfall of cash to invest with. Using my spreadsheet to determine the optimal…

Dividend Income Report for March 2015

Spring is here! The grey gloom of the Pacific Northwest is lifting and the flora is blooming and the fauna is out and about. And of course it's that time…

My Latest Buys: CTCM, FGB

Within the first week of March I made not just one, but two stock buys. I've noticed that it was rare for me to make more than one stock buy…

Dividend Income Report for February 2015

What? It's March already?? Man, February blew by so fast that Valentine's Day seems like just last week. I did make a couple stock buys last month, so that gave…

My Latest Buys: RSO, HHY

February is the month of love, so I showed some love to my dividend income portfolio and grew it with my second and third buys of the year. I noticed…