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 …
Earlier this year I changed jobs after being with my prior employer for over 16 years. Beyond the adjustment of that change at a personal level, there was also a financial decision to be made–and that was what to do with the 401(k) through my prior employer. Rather than cover the various options in detail …
Shortly after graduating college and working at my first job, I began to invest in the stock market and in short order found that I was losing money that I could not afford to lose. It wasn’t that I was terrible at selecting stocks to invest my hard-earned money into, but I was atrocious at …