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[Table] Weekly Dividend Update - 18 April 2016

Today, AVI is the only company in my universe to pay a dividend. The R1.50 per share paid is 13.6% ahead of last year. The forward yield of AVI is 4.2% (Using R3.68 DPS Broker Consensus for 30 June 2016 from AVI website). This means the total annual dividend for the year ended 30 June 2016 is expected to be 4.2% of the current AVI price of R87.94 (closing price on 15 April 2016).



Disclaimer: I have tried my best to ensure that the table above is accurate. It is based on factual data and does n...

[Table] Weekly Dividend Update - 11 April 2016

No more final or interim results this week which means no changes. Two companies in my universe are paying a dividend today.

Bidvest (BVT):R4.83 per shareLiberty Holdings (LBH): R4.37 per share
Disclaimer: I have tried my best to ensure that the table above is accurate. It is based on factual data and does not contain any recommendations. Errors and Omissions are Excluded (E&OE).

[Article] How to spot a crooked financial advisor via Moneyweb

While "Forget the Noise" is aimed at the investor who wants to build their own share portfolio, some of you will have a financial advisor who looks after your unit trust investments if you have any. I read this article by Warren Ingram (a well-known financial advisor or IFA) on some of the signs that a financial advisor is dodgy or crooked. There are some good points in the article.

Click here to read the article on Moneyweb

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[Table] Weekly Dividend Update

Every Monday I will post my dividend growth table. There have been no updates since the last post.

The following companies in my universe paid their dividends today:
FirstRand (FSR): R1.08 per shareHyprop (HYP): R2.98 per share (not in the table, but REITs to be added soon)MMI: R0.65 per shareMTN: R8.30 per share

Disclaimer: I have tried my best to ensure that the table above is accurate. It is based on factual data and does not contain any recommendations. Errors and Omissions are Excluded (E&a...

[Interview] Why active managers destroy value

A friend passed this article on to me. It is an interview with Charely Ellis by Robin Powell from the Evidence-Based Investor blog. Robin introduces Charley as follows:

For me, Charley Ellis is one of the investing world’s great consumer champions. In the mid-1970s, he became the first industry insider to acknowledge that most active fund managers fail to beat their benchmarks and that investors are far better off using low-cost index funds instead. His central argument was that the rarit...

[Table] Dividends over last 12 months

This first post is a post to illustrate what is to come. I have created a table of equities I track. Each equity has dividend growth over the last 12 month period. There are two numbers.

The first number is the total 12 months growth in full-year dividends per share. (i.e. (Final DPS + Interim DPS) / (Last Year Final DPS + Last Year Interim DPS)).

The second number is the last declared DPS over the DPS declared 12 months ago. It could be (Final DPS / Last Year Final DPS) OR ...

[1st Post] Welcome

Welcome to the Forget the Noise blog. I will write regularly about companies and investing.  I will also provide updates on the book, Forget the Noise.

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