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Stock Purchase: Union Pacific Corp (UNP)

  I recently sold off another sizable chunk of mutual funds from my 401k account as part of my conversion of 401k mutual funds to dividend growth stocks.  The goal of this Dividend Retirement portfolio is to invest in high quality dividend paying stocks that have solid, stable businesses and perpetually increase their dividends. My recent mutual fund sales raised about $16k which allows me to initiate 5 new positions (~$3k each).  Last month I went on a tear and spent $30k on 10 different companies that represented 9 different sectors – not a bad start.  With this new cash...

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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,...