June 2020 Dividend Income from the Dutch Dividend bloggers. My summer holiday is in its second week already. Time is flying when you’re having fun. This year our holiday is a little bit different than normal. This because of the COVID-19 pandemic. No traveling aboard for us this year. We are staying here in The Netherlands and enjoying our own beautiful country. We have a lot of great and wonderful places here in The Netherlands. Once again it becomes clear in what beautiful country we live.   June 2020 With this series I hope to inspire more people to start making passive income. By star ..read more

Expected Dividend Increases in July for my Vrijheid Fonds. If you have visited Polliesdividend more often, you know that I track the dividend increases of the companies in myVrijheid Fonds. There have been quite a few dividend increases announced so far in 2020 for my Vrijheid Fonds. The counter is now on 21 announcements already!!  Unfortunately, I also had to except 3 dividend cuts and 2 suspended dividends. In this post I try to summarize as many companies that are expected to announce a dividend increase in the coming month.   Why you ask? I find it fun to track the di ..read more

Month review of my Vrijheid Fonds for the month of June 2020 We leave the first half of 2020 behind us and we’ve already entered the second half of 2020. But before I look back at the first half of 2020, it is time to write a post about my favorite topic, dividends! I hope this post inspires other people out there to start saving and investing as soon as they can. The power you feel knowing that you are richer than you were yesterday and you didn’t have to work a minute for it, is a wonderful feeling.   June is history, and lets see what it brought. June is always a good month. It is the ..read more

May 2020 Dividend Income from the Dutch Dividend bloggers. Okay, I’m a little bit late, but life is happing while you make other plans, just as Lennon says. I couldn’t find the time to write this post sooner. So, with no further ado, here is the May Summary of this great series. May is already behind us, and I’m still working from home. I really miss the social interaction with my colleague. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not complaining because the most important thing is that we’re all still healthy and safe. I hope this also applies to you! Here in The Netherlands the restrictions are being remove ..read more

 A Dividend increase by the Target Corporation. On June 11th, Target Corporation (TGT) announced a 3 % increase in its quarterly dividend. The dividend is raised from $0.66 to $0.68. The dividend pay date is September 10, 2020 to shareholders of record on August 19, 2020 (ex-dividend August 18, 2020). The 3rd quarter dividend will be the company’s 212th consecutive dividend paid since October 1967 when the company became publicly held. With the increase announced last week, 2020 is expected to be the 49th consecutive year in which Target has increased its annual dividend.     Vr ..read more

ADM: This is an analysis Pollie-Style of Archer-Daniel Midland Company, an existing holding in my Vrijheid Fonds. As said, I already own this company in my Vrijheid Fonds. Or should I say, I’m a proud owner of (a very small) part of this great company. My frequent readers know that I try to make a new analysis of all my shares every year. It has been a while since I did a comprehensive analysis of ADM. For my analysis I use a lot of data from the Internet and from the company itself. But most data I get from the famous CCC-list, which was created by David Fish and is now maintained by Justin L ..read more

A dividend increase by the Monthly Dividend Company – Realty Income. On June 9th Realty Income (O) announced a 0.2% increase in its monthly dividend for common stockholders. The dividend is raised from $0.233 to $0.2335. It was the 107th consecutive dividend increase since it went public. The dividend pay date is July 15, 2020 to shareholders of record on July 1, 2020 (ex dividend June 30 2020).   President and Chief Executive Officer – Sumit Roy said: “We remain committed to our company’s mission of paying dependable monthly dividends to our shareholders that increase over time. Our Boa ..read more

Top 5 investment mistakes – Teaching my Kids part 23. It has been a long time since I posted a post in my Teaching my Kids series. So, it is time again, and this time it is a blog about my investment mistakes. As frequent reader of my blog you know that I’m also writing posts to try to educate my kids. I know they are still very young (9 and 11) but it is never too early to start. And they can read these blog posts later on in life (This is probably the case, because they don’t speak or read English very well at this moment!). This is another blog post to keep the “snowball of knowledge” roll ..read more

Month review of my Vrijheid Fonds for May 2020 The month of May is already behind us. It was a month with a nice rebound of the markets. The world’s economy is slowing moving the right way again after almost a complete worldwide shutdown due to COVID-19. Furthermore we saw an increase in the demand for oil and gas again. If we look here in Europe, most of the countries are slowly opening up their economies again. Here in The Netherlands the Intelligent Lockdown has transformed in a 1.5-meter-economy. All shops and restaurant are open again, and within a few weeks the gym will also be allowed t ..read more

Expected Dividend Increases in June for my Vrijheid Fonds. It is that time of the month again in which I look at my Vrijheid Fonds and see which companies are expected to raise their dividend. 2020 has been a weird year so far. We are in an intelligent lock down, and I have received some dividend cuts. Despite these cuts I also have received some dividend increases fortunately. The counter is now on 18 announcements already!! In this post I try to summarize the companies that I expect which will announce a dividend increase in the coming month.   Why you ask? I find it fun to track ..read more