Dividends

Dopamine vs. Dividends- The Neurological Reason You Can't Stop Day Trading

Dopamine vs. Dividends: The Neurological Reason You Can’t Stop Day Trading

Behavioral Finance, Dividends, Trading

Your brain doesn’t care about your retirement account. It cares about what happened in the last three seconds. This fundamental mismatch explains why millions of rational, educated people with good jobs and solid futures find themselves refreshing their trading apps at 2 AM, watching a stock that represents 0.3% of their portfolio move by pennies. […]

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Is Your Dividend a Return of Capital or a Return on Capital?

Is Your Dividend a Return of Capital or a Return on Capital?

Dividends, Business Development Company, Investing, Investment Strategies

There’s a particular breed of investor who checks their brokerage account the way some people check their pulse. They want to see that dividend hit. They want confirmation that their money is working, that capital deployed is capital rewarded. And nowhere is this impulse stronger than among those who invest in business development companies. BDCs

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Dividends vs. Buybacks- Which One Is Actually Putting Money in Your Pocket?

Dividends vs. Buybacks: Which One Is Actually Putting Money in Your Pocket?

Investing, Dividends, Fundamental Analysis

There’s a strange ritual in corporate finance where companies decide what to do with their profits. They can hand the cash directly to shareholders via dividends, or they can buy their own stock back from the market. One feels like getting paid. The other feels like a magic trick where your slice of the pie

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Digital Rent: How to “Own” the Internet Infrastructure Through Dividends

Dividends, infrastructure investing, Investment Theme, Investments

You probably think the internet is free. You open your laptop, connect to WiFi, and suddenly have access to the entire world. No toll booths. No admission fees. Just pure, democratic access to information and entertainment. Except someone owns every inch of it. Every email you send travels through cables owned by someone. Every video

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