Portfolio Performance

Measuring your portfolio's performance is an important step of being a dividend growth investor. Our portfolios can be affected continuously by surges in the market, economic downturns, upturns, or even buying and selling if not done carefully. This causes the need to consistently take a look at your portfolio to bench mark the progress - a step missed a lot by the DGI community because of the thought that the dividend payments reign supreme and the portfolio as a whole can be ignored. It is important however to always be checking your portfolio to make sure that none of your assets are looking to strip you of more than your dividend payments could ever make up for.

Finance for Kids

If you read my last article, you know how important it is to me that we assume our role as leaders to the younger generation. I've already spoken about how we should set our long term goal for our dividend growth portfolios to be legacy portfolios but that seems to be the last step rather than the first couple that need to first be bridged. If a child has no financial background whatsoever, learning to run a portfolio is going to be like reading an alien language. Where do we start then?