The Most Successful Dividend Investors of all time

Dividend investing is as sexy as watching paint dry on the wall. Defining an entry criteria that selects quality dividend stocks with rising dividends over time and then patiently reinvesting these dividends while sitting on your hands is not exciting. While active traders have a plethora of hedge fund managers on the covers of Forbes magazine there are not many well-publicized successful dividend investors. Even value investing has its own superstars – Ben Graham and Warren Buffett. I did some research and uncovered...

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Most valuations (even good ones) are wrong

Now this can be shocking to you if you spend a lot of time arriving at that magical number (intrinsic value) that helps you ascertain whether you must buy a stock or not. Damodaran talks about three kinds of errors that cause most valuations – even the ones “meticulously” calculated – to go wrong: Estimation error…that occurs while converting raw information into forecasts. Firm-specific uncertainty…as the firm may do much better or worse than you expected it to perform, resulting in earnings and cash flows to be quite different from your estimates. Macro...

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Pay for Retirement with a Cup of Coffee and an Egg McMuffin

Pay for Retirement with a Cup of Coffee and an Egg McMuffin$3 a Day Can Add Up to a Serious Nest EggBy Joshua KennonHow many times have you swung by McDonalds on your way to work for a cup of coffee and an Egg McMuffin? It may seem like small change, but the $3 a day it is costing you to buy your breakfast can fund your retirement. Don't believe it? Let's take a look at the numbers.The stock market has historically averaged a return of around twelve percent. If you began investing $3 a day at twenty five years old and earned the same rate of return,...

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Looking at Inari to understand Insas(Revised)

Anyone who puts in money in Insas over the last 4 - 5 months would have made decent sum - increase from RM0.50 to now RM0.94, which coincidentally was about the period which I wrote about the company. In this particular article, I wanted to know what makes the sudden rise in the stock price whereas it has been in trading in the RM0.40 to RM0.60 for a long time.I wanted to know what type of character are behind the owners. As in my previous article,...

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Why Padini is the leading Malaysian fashion retailer

There is no doubt that I like retail business and I like the leading player best. Hence there is no doubt that I have bought and sold some of them - like in buying into Bonia and Wing Tai. The thing about retailing business is that I personally felt that Malaysia is doing extremely well. I in fact like Malaysian retailing than Singapore or Bangkok or Jakarta for that matter. In Asia, besides Hong Kong, there has been some positive work done by Malaysian...

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