DRIP stands for “Dividend Re-Investment Program”. Some listed companies have DRIP’s where dividends are automatically re-invested in more shares from that particular company and usually with no associated trading fees.
I have for example over a period of two years turned 100 General Electric shares into 105 shares by having the dividends (minus taxes) automatically re-invested [...]

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I was going to write about Dollar-Cost Averaging (DCA) as an investment method in preparation to a post about DRIPs (Dividend Re-Investment Program). But first I was going to find some good sources for information about it.As it is impossible to predict how the market is going to perform, DCA is supposed to be a [...]

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I must admit, I was one of those who thought that buying Google shares around their IPO time was not a sensible thing to do, and as the share price then continued going up, I kept thinking that it was too late to jump on. Back in January 2007, Robert X. Cringely wrote an article [...]

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I subscribe to the Motley Fool Income Investor newsletter, and PetroBras, a Brazilian oil company, was recommended twice this year. I mainly bought on that recommendation, and it has turned out to be an outstanding recommendation. I bought at $52.83 at the back end of August, and the shares now stand at $106.71, having doubled [...]

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I recently came across this article on “Seeking Alpha” about “Peer-to-Peer” investing (Covestor and VesTopia: Winners and Losers from Peer to Peer Investing - Seeking Alpha). I thought it sounded quite interesting and decided to have a go at signing up and I am now a “certified member” (I am soo important :-).

Covestor is “A [...]

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