A few months back I had talked about how I was changing a piece of the puzzle with my dividend portfolio. At the time I was playing the waiting game on the final step of the process to sell my holding in the Vanguard Total Stock Market Index and redistribute those funds to the Vanguard …
Shuffle Up and Deal :: Tweaking the Dividend Portfolio Read More »
Over the last couple of weeks, I have had an internal debate on my approach to tracking dividends–and we have discussed it in some of the comments. Initially, when I started this blog and created a focused dividend portfolio, I only referenced the dividends generated from my new purchases–as well as a couple of long-standing …
One of the first things that I had done when I embarked on the process to build a dividend portfolio was to identify what my goals were going to be during my inaugural year of dividend growth investing. There are plenty of resources that stress how critical it is to write down your goals and …
Goal Achieved :: $5,000 Projected Annual Dividend Income Read More »
It should hopefully come as no surprise at this point that I love spreadsheets, as I have recently made adjustments to my dividend spreadsheet to track monthly stock performance and annual forward dividend income. As I read blogs across the DGI community, I always keep an eye out for how people track their portfolios and …
Hopefully you are as excited as I have been with the market decline the last couple of days. Notice that I said excited, not freaking out like so many people seem to be doing. During the accumulation phase of our journey towards financial independence, down markets are a positive thing because it allows each dollar …