How the Dividend Income of Canadian Dividend Growth Stocks Did During the 2008-2009 Global Financial Crisis
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How the Dividend Income of Canadian Dividend Growth Stocks Did During the 2008-2009 Global Financial Crisis

57%* of dividend-paying firms across the world either cut (43%*) or eliminated their dividend (14%*) during the financial crisis of 2008-2009 and “the year after 2008’s global market decline, aggregate dividends fell by 20%.”* *Source: “Global Dividend-Paying Stocks: A Recent History,” A March 2013 DFA study covering 23 developed markets. Pretty scary stuff if you…

What Canadian sectors and industries have dividend paying and dividend growth stocks, and what are these specific stocks?
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What Canadian sectors and industries have dividend paying and dividend growth stocks, and what are these specific stocks?

What Canadian sectors and industries have dividend paying and dividend growth stocks, and what are these specific stocks?  I’ll be answering this question by first looking at the Canadian market as a whole and then drilling down deeper into the 11 sectors, the 69 industries, and 158 sub-industries, and then finally listing off all of…

Diversification

Diversification

401(K) 2013 / Foter / CC BY-SA I’ve been writing a lot of dividend stock analyses lately, so today I thought I’d take a break from them and write an article about diversification. My fiancé and I are in the process of combining our finances, so I thought it would be important to look at…