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Stocking Up on Dividends: a Roundup of High Yielding Articles

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Earlier this week I wrote about a “reasonable facsimile” for an annuity in
How Can I Buy an Annuity Without Giving Away my Principal?

It seems dividends were on many others minds as well.

My Own Advisor reported on his dividend portfolio’s May performance. I think he’s well on his way to a comfortable retirement—perhaps even a luxurious one.

Bell stock has dropped about $4/share this month. Is it connected to the new CRTC rules about mobile charges?  Bell claimed it already does everything in the new code when interviewed by CTV news. So far no signs of a cut to that lovely dividend. The current yield is back over 5%.

Echo at Boomer and Echo scared the *$*%* out of many of his faithful readers by announcing his intention to sell all his divvies and buy choice selections from a “Top 10 Penny Stocks” list he found left under his windshield wiper.

The annual dividend for Canadian Utilities, CU, will be cut in half this weekend! Fortunately, so will the stock price as the company is splitting the shares 2 for 1. So the yield stays the same. I’m actually hoping the yield will fall this coming week: In other words I’m hoping the price of the split shares will rise.

Big Cajun Man pointed out that if we could find a way to invest in universities we could be onto some real money.

Michael James on Money made a dividend through sheer brain power.

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Credit Cards Exposed: A Collection of Articles on (Possibly) Our Favourite Piece of Plastic

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Recently I wrote about what happened when our credit card was somehow hacked in “What Happens When Your Credit Card is Used Illegally and Fraudulently?”

Ironically, the card that was used illegally was not the one we use for online shopping. We “Reduce the Risk of Online Shopping with a Low Limit Credit Card” and it seems to be working for us.

I’ve read some other interesting articles about credit cards and the perils thereof. Here are a few you might find worth a skim. (Get it: “skim.” Stealing credit card data? You just can’t buy puns like these even if you subscribe to the Globe and Mail online.)

Big Cajun Man explored the landmines that arrive in the mail in his article Credit Card Cheques, What Gives?

Robb Engen of Boomer and Echo wrote in the Toronto Star about 4 Reasons to Avoid a Rewards Credit Card

The Blunt Bean Counter points out that using one points (see the pun?!) card for your business and personal expenses is “an audit nightmare waiting to happen” in Credit Cards – Tax, Budget and Repayment Issues

Some time ago, Michael James on Money ran the numbers to find out what it costs to pay his credit card bill ahead of time in The Cost of Paying Bills Early. Is it worth paying this “premium” to insure against missing a payment due date?

The comments in Retire Happy’s TFSA or Pay Down Debt? make for interesting reading. Is it better to have an emergency cash supply so you can keep making the minimum payment on your debts, or to pay off the debts and not have an emergency fund? There’s more at work than just the interest $$.

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