Money, Investing, Wealth Blog by Tracey Edwards
Let’s be frank, and talk franking credits on dividends. We are lucky in Australia, we have a lot of stable high-yield dividend stocks and quite a lot of them have tax benefits in the form of franking credits. If you receive dividends you’ve probably noticed that they can be either fully franked, partially franked, or […]
Having monthly income from your investment portfolio can be really helpful. Especially if you rely on that income for paying your bills or, if you’re like me, you live off the dividend income. In my investment portfolio, I have a mix of both individual companies and ETFs. But I know many people prefer buying ETFs […]
I invest in the stock market for dividend income. It wasn’t always that way, but these days I’m more interested in getting on with other aspects of my life than worrying about my stock portfolio. I thought you’d be interested in the actual method I use to pick which dividend stocks to invest in. So […]
Dividend stripping, also called dividend capture, is a strategy whereby you buy shares in a company just for the dividend. You buy before the ex-dividend date, and when the company goes ex-dividend, you sell the shares, either on the ex-div day or a few weeks later. The reason you want to consider using it is that […]
Lately my portfolio has become a mixture of three types of stocks. 1. Long term stocks (these make up the bulk of my portfolio) 2. Short term stocks (because they can be fun although I don’t hold as many of these at the moment) and 3. Dividend stocks (I’m gradually buying more and more of […]