During the week, I read articles from fellow bloggers and other places on the net. I am listing some of the articles that I enjoyed reading.
Economy, Finance, Investing.…..
- Seven years for earning and spending
- Dividend stocks aspiring to be dividend champions
- How to fix your bond mix
- Stocks most likely to raise dividends
- Dividends stocks to pad your portfolio
- Dubai the city on crack
- The focus of mutual funds
- What is options trading?
- 4 simple lessons on cost, price, and margins
- The CRUD will pass
These are some diverse set of articles from fellow bloggers and business magazines. I hope you enjoy reading all or some of these interesting posts.
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In last 10 or 15 years, the meaning of investing has drifted from being part owner of the business to mere buying a ticker stock. Even the concept of value investing, which at core means buying a good business at cheap, has drifted towards using volatility to value or price the stock. The relative basis has shifted from using quality of business to what is the price it is being traded. The fundamental concept of owning a good business has taken a back seat. The ease with which one can buy and sell stocks at a click of few mouse buttons, has distracted us from understanding the business. We have started to believe that buying and selling stocks online is investing. In my viewpoint, this is what makes us clueless about the stock market. Business comes first and stock market comes later. That’s what is focus of the book I recently finished reading, 
In general, there is school of thought that if risk is higher, then probability of “returns are also higher”. On many occasions almost all investors would have used this interpretation. This is only true to certain extent, it is a partial truth. It is incomplete. 
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Dividend Investing: Two Common Questions?
Whenever I have a conversion about dividend investing, I get few different types of questions. It is very natural for people to ask questions. What is interesting is often these questions can be grouped into following two:
Selling a dividend stock when it is overpriced? This comes from the thought process that say any of my dividend stock is overpriced by 1.25x or 1.5x. In that case, it is likely that the dividend I expect in 10 years, I may get by selling the overpriced stocks. Why wait for that long for dividends to trickle in? continue reading rest of the article….