As a dividend growth investor (DGI), I am driven to keep track of both my inflows and outflows. Increases in investment income represent one measure to assess whether I am winning or losing the game of money. While I have been diligent to track my progress on a...
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March 4, 2018 Get Rich Brothers
Dividend Updates, Investing
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As a dividend growth investor (DGI), I am driven to keep track of both my inflows and outflows. Increases in investment income represent one measure to assess whether I am winning or losing the game of money. While I have been diligent to track my progress on a...
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February 14, 2018 Get Rich Brothers
Dividend Updates, Investing
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The past quarter has continued to demonstrate the strength of the Dividend Growth Investing (DGI) strategy. As I have let the dividends roll into my account since taking myself off of the DRiP at my discount broker, I have had ever increasing amounts of cash flow to invest...
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January 6, 2018 Get Rich Brothers
Dividend Updates
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It has been two and a half years since I put my passive income goals down on paper. Setting a five year plan involves three key components: 1) A clear understanding of where you are currently. 2) A clear understanding of what you would like to achieve. 3)...
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January 5, 2018 Get Rich Brothers
Five Year Plan
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Since the end of 2016, I have been mostly on the sidelines accumulating cash. The market has been on an unrestricted run upward and it has been difficult to really find great deals on high quality dividend payers. I did add one share of Amazon (AMZN) in a...
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November 6, 2017 Get Rich Brothers
Dividend Updates
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The first half of the year has come and gone. This represents an opportunity to take measure of how the passive income train has been rolling down the tracks. Due to the strength of the overall market, I have not been adding significantly to my stock portfolio. I...
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July 9, 2017 Get Rich Brothers
Investing
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I spent some time this morning updating my dividend spreadsheet where I tally my passive income. I track each company individually along with the annual collective totals. While adding up all of the dividends received is nice, one of my other little joys from this activity is actually...
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April 17, 2017 Get Rich Brothers
Investing
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Over the course of the past week, a spotlight has been firmly fixed on the sales practices of Toronto-Dominion Bank (TD). A number of current and former employees have come forward to expose TD for putting excessive amounts of pressure on employees to either meet sales targets or...
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March 16, 2017 Get Rich Brothers
General, Investing
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With dividend growth investing there are three basic ways to increase the amount of dividends passively rolling into your account: Buy additional stock which pays dividends. Reinvest your dividends (either actively or through a DRiP). The company you already own increases the dividend payment. While I haven’t typically...
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February 20, 2017 Get Rich Brothers
Recent Buy
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A year and half ago (August 2015) I announced my Five Year Plan to achieve what I dubbed at the time to be “Semi-Financial Freedom” (SFF). What this implies is having reached a point in life where a large number of lifestyle expenses are covered by passive income...
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February 6, 2017 Get Rich Brothers
Five Year Plan
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