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The Ultimate Dividend Playbook: Income, Insight and Independence for Today's Investor
Many people believe that the key to success in the stock market is buying low and selling high. But how many investors have the time, talent, and luck to earn consistent returns this way? In The Ultimate Dividend Playbook: Income, Insight, and Independence for Today’s Investor, Josh Peters, editor of the monthly Morningstar DividendInvestor newsletter, shows you why you don’t have to try to beat the market and how you can use dividends to capture the income and growth you seek..
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How to Pay Zero Taxes, 2008 (How to Pay Zero Taxes)
Make 2008 the year you pay zero taxes! Fully updated to include all the latest tax law changes, How to Pay Zero Taxes outlines the easiest, most practical strategies you can use to lower your taxes this year, next year, and beyond. From converting personal expenses into business expenses to avoiding or surviving an IRS audit, Jeff Schnepper's guide comprehensively covers more deductions than any other tax book, all conveniently organized in six fast-access categories: exclusions, credits, “above-the-line” deductions, “below-the-line” deductions, traditional tax shelters, and supertax shelters. In the 2008 edition you will find coverage of: - The new 2007 tax laws
- Credits and deductions for higher education expenses
- The special capital gains and dividends rules
- Increased dependent care and “kiddie” tax credits
- Coverdell Education Accounts for elementary and secondary school expenses
- Increased IRA and retirement plan limits
- Home equity loans
- Real estate trusts
- Theft and casualty losses
- Educational and ROTH IRAs
- Divorce and separation costs
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The Integrity Dividend: Leading by the Power of Your Word
Corporate and government scandals continue to deepen our mistrust of leaders While credibility is the foundation of effective leadership, most leaders struggle, and sometimes fail, to align their words and their actions. Now for the first time, leadership expert Tony Simons has measured the bottom-line value of business leaders who live by their word and actually do what they say they are going to do. In The Integrity Dividend, Tony Simons shows how leaders personal integrity drives the profitability and overall success of their organization. This groundbreaking book is based in on solid research and reveals that businesses led by managers of higher integrity enjoy deeper employee commitment, lower turnover, superior customer service, and substantially higher profitability. This improved performance is the integrity dividend. Simons conducted dozens of focus groups, surveyed thousands of employees, collected financial and operational numbers, and interviewed over 100 senior executives and executive coaches. The book lays out the research clearly and provides proven tools for managing common integrity challenges. It offers guidance for building individual credibility and for creating an organizational culture of integrity and accountability. Throughout, Simons uses real-world insight and stories drawn from senior executives, line managers, and coaches. The Integrity Dividend is a fresh view of leadership at a time when it is most needed..
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The Single Best Investment: Creating Wealth with Dividend Growth
This witty guide advises readers to stop playing the stock market or listening to television gurus and instead put their money into dividend-paying, moderate-growth companies that offer consistent returns and minimum risk. Citing statistics that show companies initiating and raising dividends at the fastest rate in 30 years, this analysis declares once-stodgy dividends to be "the next new thing" and provides simple rules for choosing the best stocks, using traditional evaluation tools, reinvesting dividends, comparing stocks and bonds, and building a portfolio. Technical aspects of the stock market are explained in the final pages that include two new chapters and revised statistics as well as academic studies, historic back-tests, examples of real-time performance, and a list of resources for further research. .
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Mergent's Dividend Achievers Fall 2008: Featuring Second-Quarter Results for 2008 (Mergent's Dividend Achievers)
To find the most consistent dividend-paying stocks, professional investment managers, analysts, and knowledgeable individual investors use Mergent s Dividend Achievers, the definitive guide for sound investments. This Fall 2008 Edition, featuring second-quarter results for 2008, profiles approximately 300 truly remarkable U.S. companies that have increased their regular cash dividends annually for ten or more consecutive years. With this book, readers can put together an extraordinary, diversified portfolio, which includes large-cap, mid-cap, and small-cap companies. The companies discussed represent more than fifty different industries, from consumer goods to real estate to utilities..
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All About DRIPs and DSPs
The numbers are astonishing: of the 45 million Americans who invest in today’s stock market, only 5 million realize they can invest commission-free through dividend reinvestment plans (DRIPs) and direct stock purchase plans (DSPs). But as more and more investors clamor to cut costs and take control of their own portfolio decisions, this number is destined to rise—dramatically! All About DRIPs and DSPs tells investors everything they need to know about where to find direct investment opportunities, and how to profit from their affordable compounding benefits. Author George Fisher—a pioneer of more than 30 years investing in DRIPs and DSPs—discusses: * Today’s top 100 DRIP/DSP companies
* Advice for building a personalized, diversified mutual fund
* How to use PEG (price to earnings growth ratio) to identify superior long-term opportunities
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Standard & Poor's 500 Guide 2008 Edition (Standard and Poor's 500 Guide)
The facts, figures, and analyses you need to make informed investing decisions The Standard & Poor’s 500 Index is the most watched index in America—if not the world. Whether you’re an individual investor looking to make a smart stock purchase, an executive researching corporate competitors, or a job seeker looking for concise and up-to-the-minute overviews of potential employers, you’ll find the critical, often hard-to-find information you need in Standard & Poor’s 500 Guide, 2008 Edition. Easy to use and packed with market intelligence on all 500 of the companies listed in the S&P 500 Index, this authoritative reference includes: Summaries of each company’s business activity, sales history, and recent developments Earnings and dividends data, with three-year price charts Exclusive Standard & Poor’s Quality Rankings (from A+ to D)In addition, unique at-a-glance charts detail: - Stocks with A+ Quality Rankings
- Companies with five consecutive years of earnings increases—a key indicator of strong long-term performance!
- Companies with 10 consecutive years of increasing dividends
Put the comprehensive, updated data and analysis expertise of the world’s premier securities information firm at your fingertips, with Standard & Poor’s 500 Guide, 2008 Edition. .
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The Dick Davis Dividend: Straight Talk on Making Money from 40 Years on Wall Street
A pioneer in the financial media, Dick Davis has interacted with the investing public for over forty years. With his new book, he continues this trend. The first part of The Dick Davis Dividend contains an easy-to-read, yet profound discussion of the essentials of investing—focusing on the savvy veteran’s often unconventional, core beliefs. While the second part of this engaging guide makes a compelling case for combining both passive investing via index funds and active investing via stocks and mutual funds..
Price: $12.25
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Mergent's Dividend Achievers Summer 2008: Featuring First-Quarter Results for 2008 (Mergent's Dividend Achievers)
Mergent's Dividend Achievers is a compact, easy-to-use reference that provides basic financial and business information on companies that have increased their cash dividend payments for at least ten consecutive years, adjusting for splits. The presentation of background information plus current and historical data provides the answers to four basic questions for each company: * Stock performance chart * Dividend record * Business description * Analysis of recent developments * Seven years of financial results and ratios, and much more.
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