Super-Fast Growing Mid-Cap Growth Stocks With Explosive Returns

It seems like I’ve been writing only about dividend growth stocks for what seems like forever.  Therefore, I felt it would be a refreshing change to alter my focus from dividend income to pure unadulterated growth.  Although I’m a major proponent of investing in dividend growth stocks, unlike many of my fellow dividend growth investor friends, I am also a big believer in the benefits of investing in non-dividend paying growth stocks with the potential for generating a higher total return.

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6 Dividend Stocks To Beat The Wall Street Giants

Driven by computers that cost more than the average person will earn in their lifetime the investment markets move at light speed. To keep pace hedge funds, mutual funds, institutional investors and multi-billion dollar money managers spend large sums of money on high-tech tools to give them an edge. Throw in some illegal insider trading from big names in the industry and it leaves you wondering what chance does a small individual investor have?

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Weekend Reading Links - May 19, 2013

For your weekend reading pleasure, the articles listed below contain some of the best dividend and value investing insights found on the web. They were written by various members of the Dividend Investing and Value Network over the past week:

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I Just Bought A Time Machine

I just purchased a time machine. It's not my first, but is my nicest. Hopefully I'll keep this one for a while!

According to this source, the average driver here in the U.S. spends $9,641 (and that's using $2.25 per gallon fuel figures) per year for the privilege of driving a vehicle. You can think about this a few different ways.

To afford this type of expense on an on-going basis, one would need $241,000 in capital using the 4% Safe Withdrawal Rate ($9641/0.04). I typically use my average portfolio yield instead for a more accurate picture of how much I'll need in investments to sustain an expense without selling assets and get the larger figure of $275,000 needed based on my portfolio yield of approximately 3.5%.

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