Be Fraud Aware: Protect Your Money + MORE

This post has been written on behalf of the B.C. Securities Commission, to bring awareness to the – Be Fraud Aware app.
Investment fraud isn’t something we consider until it is on the front-page news and media. But investment fraud is more common place than unsuspecting investors may realize…

Looking at the universe of stocks we cover at Dividend Channel, in trading on Tuesday, shares of Gladstone Capital Corporation (NASD: GLAD) were yielding above the 9% mark based on its monthly dividend (annualized to $0.84), with the stock changing hands as low as $9.30 on the day. Dividends are particularly important for investors to consider, because historically speaking dividends have provided a considerable share of the stock market’s total return…

Visit StreetInsider.com at http://www.streetinsider.com/Dividends/Peabody+Energy+Corp.+%28BTU%29+Declares+%240.085+Quarterly+Dividend%3B+1.7%25+Yield/8290466.html for the full story.

Obviously, money is not the most important thing in my life and hopefully it’s not in yours either. I do spend a lot of time talking about here because that is kind of what this blog is about right? I’ve always had an issue with the saying that money can’t buy happiness. Yes, there is a lot more involved and being rich in itself is certainly not enough to live happily ever after…

In a previous post on The Dividend Pig, I discussed opportunity in the Canadian mining sector.  As I discussed in that post, many investors overlook mining stocks as dividend growth companies, because of their lower dividend yields. Yet these are “dividend growth” companies many with strong balance sheets…

I’ve started a new series of screens on my blog: the best yielding large cap stocks from foreign countries with cheap price ratios. The results from Asia and Latin America were inspirational for me but when I look deeper into the results, I realize that I could not build a deeper relationship to them…