High Yield Dividend Investing Misconceptions + MORE

In trading on Tuesday, shares of IBERIABANK Corp (NASD: IBKC) crossed above their 200 day moving average of $48.91, changing hands as high as $48.97 per share. IBERIABANK Corp shares are currently trading up about 1% on the day. The chart below shows the one year performance of IBKC shares, versus its 200 day moving average:

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There is a growing trend towards doing-it-yourself (DIY) portfolio management.  Many individual investors have become disillusioned with professional investment management at various levels, to include mutual funds as well as custom-designed professionally-managed portfolios. Consequently, they have become motivated to take their financial futures into their own hands and manage their own portfolios…

Consumer dividend stocks with low beta ratios and high market capitalization originally published at “long-term-investments.blogspot.com“. Today I like to close my monthly screen theme “the safest dividend stocks” with the consumer goods sector. Consumer goods stocks are one of my favorite sectors because of the strong relationship to the end-consumer…

One of the biggest misconceptions about dividend investing out there is that investors should change their strategy, depending on their age. I believe that this misconception comes from the traditional world of retirement planning, where advisers told clients to allocate higher and higher amounts to fixed income instruments as they got older…

 
What could be the best scenario for a dividend investor?
 
When I think about dividend investing, I think about the possibility of receiving a dividend payout forever. After all, the “perfect dividend stock” is paying a distribution quarterly and show the possibility of increasing this payment year after year…

I’ve said for some time that I think most investors should own part of their assets in gold. It’s an asset that has done well over long periods of time, especially as a hedge against inflation and weak/volatile economies. There is certainly a sense that this could be a good time to buy following major losses in the last few weeks…