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June 2016 Buys

  June was a great month for me in terms of dividend income.  But unfortunately I didn’t have time to write up my purchases for the month, so now I’d like to review all of my June buys in this post. I made a total of 15 purchases; 10 in the Empire Portfolio and 5 in my Retirement Portfolio.  There was one new purchase, one large addition to an existing position and several small DRIPs / monthly Loyal3 buys. While I’m happy to say that my contributions to the Retirement portfolio were substantial ($5,556.47), my Empire contributions were a measly $221.36.  I want this amount to...

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Dividend Portfolio Updates: April 2015

Since I just started the Dividend Empire Portfolio on March 30 and the Dividend Retirement Portfolio on April 22 of 2015 this update will be brief. In this update and all future updates I will summarize my purchases, dividends and pay raises for the month. In case you haven’t read the introductions to my two dividend portfolios you can read about the Dividend Empire Portfolio HERE and the Dividend Retirement Portfolio HERE. In these updates I will keep the two dividend portfolios separate simply because they have very different goals. In summary, the Dividend Empire Portfolio is for my children,...

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Stock Purchases – JNJ and More

I recently posted that I will be tracking my dividend retirement portfolio on this website in addition to my dividend empire portfolio. Well my self-directed brokerage account in my 401k is set up and I’m ready to go shopping. I am in the process of converting 65% of my 401k into dividend growth stocks (full story HERE). I got the ball rolling on Monday when I sold off my large cap index and international value mutual funds. These sales generated about $15000 in proceeds. When the conversion is complete, I will have about $100k total in this dividend retirement fund....