Starting point
Hello everyone, the title of this post is "Starting Point" and it pertains more to me starting on this blogging journey about my foray into Dividend Growth Investing, and not so much the start of my investing career. I have been investing for a couple years now, but only recently saw the light with respect to DGI a couple months ago. I started dividend investing a couple years ago, with the goal of putting my money somewhere where it can be working for me, as opposed to putting it somewhere where it would be doing the opposite, such as in a depreciating asset (ie, something consumer-related). A couple of places had the suggestion of investing into dividend stocks, and after looking into it, I liked what I was seeing where one had the opportunity to get over 10% back on his/her money in regular dividend payments. Of course, with this thinking, I became a yield chaser. I put my money into a few risky investments, mainly because they were offering over a 10% yield. Back then, ...