Month: February 2017

The day my portfolio dropped by 15 %

My path as a dividend growth investor

My first steps in the stock market go back to 1999, somewhere near the peak of the “Dot-Com Bubble” which left my investment portfolio consisting of two high tech stocks with a hefty book loss of over 50 % when the bubble eventually burst in spring 2001.

Quite an unpleasant and discouraging start as an investor, right?

Well, it turned out that these early experiences served me well.

I was kind of forced to take a long-term perspective and to become patient in order to successfully pursue my goal to building up a stock portfolio providing me with a reliable and ever growing passive income stream over time. Read more… »