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Archives for January 2013

Recent Buy

January 31, 2013 by Dividend Mantra Team 34 Comments

Some things never change. The Dow Jones Industrial Average is flirting with 14,000 points, and with my work being so crazy and unpredictable now would be a good time to take a break from buying stocks. I’ve talked about my plan of increasing my cash position over the first few months to counteract any potential […]

Recent Sale

January 27, 2013 by Dividend Mantra Team 34 Comments

This is a tough article to write. I don’t like to sell stocks too often. I look at each stock in my portfolio as valuable branches to my dividend growth tree, ultimately providing me bountiful dividends with which to pay my expenses. Every time I cut a branch from my tree, my tree produces less […]

Dividend Growth Investing In A Bull Market

January 25, 2013 by Dividend Mantra Team 35 Comments

DJIA 3-month chart DOW 14,000? The thought of that in the throws of the recession just a few years ago would have been impossible to imagine. Yet here we are knocking on the door. The stock market has been on a tear over the last couple years. The Dow Jones Industrial Average has already more […]

Reconsidering Abbott Labs (ABT) And AbbVie (ABBV)

January 18, 2013 by Dividend Mantra Team 39 Comments

Abbott Laboratories: A company I loved At the beginning of this year, Abbott Laboratories (ABT) completed the spin-off of its branded pharmaceutical business. This business is now a separate publicly traded company, calling itself AbbVie Inc. (ABBV). I have long been a fan of Abbott Laboratories as a diversified health care company with operations in […]

I’m Dying And So Are You

January 13, 2013 by Dividend Mantra Team 42 Comments

If your life were a movie, would you want to watch it? I’m dying. No I don’t have cancer and I’m not starving to death. But life, inevitably, is mortal. Every day that passes by is one less day that I have left on this earth. And the same is true for you. What are […]

My Goals For 2013

January 12, 2013 by Dividend Mantra Team 31 Comments

I’m a big fan of having goals. Goals give you something to shoot for; they’re a target so that you can track your progress. Putting goals down on paper, and then showing them to the world does a couple things. First, by actually typing these goals up I realize them in a physical form. If […]

2012 Goals Reviewed

January 9, 2013 by Dividend Mantra Team 29 Comments

2013 is well on its way already, but it’s not too late for me to look back on 2012 with fond memories. It was a fantastic year for me overall, and one that I’d love to repeat again in 2013 if I could. But, of course, it’s always prudent to shoot for even bigger successes […]

Income/Expenses For December 2012

January 7, 2013 by Dividend Mantra Team 34 Comments

Each month I will post my income/expenses for the previous month. I track every dollar in and out, so what you see is exactly what I earned and spent (rounded to the nearest dollar). Income from December 2012: $4,528–Regular Paycheck $452–Dividends $235–Bonus and Spiffs Total Income: $5,216 Expenses from December 2012: $494–Rent $189–Student Loans $88–Restaurants […]

Dividend Income Update – December 2012

January 4, 2013 by Dividend Mantra Team 47 Comments

Another month has passed by, and it’s time for me to post an article on my favorite subject: dividend income. The reason why I love to post articles on dividend income is because it’s pure numbers. It’s hard to argue the success of long-term dividend growth investing when you can slowly and surely see dividend […]

Freedom Fund Update – January 2013

January 2, 2013 by Dividend Mantra Team 18 Comments

Well, the time has come to update the Freedom Fund once again as we start another month. The Freedom Fund is my portfolio, and I think it’s aptly named. My portfolio is my way to freedom; freedom from working at a job I don’t enjoy to purchase goods I don’t need to impress neighbors I […]

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