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Sunday, June 23, 2019

9 Ways to Get Out of Debt Faster

Debt is an amount of money borrowed by an individual from another party. Many people use debt as a method of making large purchases that they could not afford by paying interest on them. Many get into huge debts and getting out of it can be frustrating and confusing experience if you don’t have the right plan. Some people simply try to avoid these issues and ignore the problems they are already in. However, if these debt issues are not dealt with, it will only escalate the problem much further. This can lead destroying your financial dream. With debt, it will be impossible for you to be financially ahead to achieve early retirement. Before you want to build wealth through your investment, you’ll need to tackle those debts you acquire. So what are ways to get out debt faster?

Difference Between Investment and Speculation

There are many people who purchase stocks thinking they are making an investment and not knowing they are actually speculating. They buy certain stocks with just certain assumption that the stock will go up in price without doing a thorough analysis. And yes, some people actually do make capital gain from speculating and sometimes they made a lot of money. That is what we call speculating. The person who made tons of money from speculating on certain securities might just be lucky. However people need to know the difference because Investing and Speculating. Those two are totally different terms. Benjamin Graham who is Warren Buffett’s mentor believed in separating investing from speculation. I strongly agree with that ideology because not knowing the difference can cost you dearly. In this article, I want to talk about the difference between Investing and Speculating, and why I personally dislike speculating and prefer Investing instead.

Thursday, June 20, 2019

How to Make Money Using Dividend Growth Investing Strategy

Before I start explaining about “Dividend Growth Investing”, we need to understand the basic of dividends. A dividend is a distribution of income from a portion of company’s earning (net profit) and it’s paid to its shareholders. Dividends are decided and managed by the company’s board of directors, and they must be approved by the shareholders by voting rights. Dividend Growth Investing is a simple strategy of purchasing stocks that are paying dividends and have been growing their dividends from the past year. A Dividend Growth Investor also can benefit from the capital appreciation from the dividend paying stock. The goal is to look for dividend paying companies that have strong track record of paying dividends. In addition, the companies need to have strong financial fundamental as well as the quality of the company. The strategy to Dividend Growth Investing is to seek for companies that increase their dividend payment overtime. So how do you make money using dividend growth investing strategy?