The dividend investor's naughty and nice list

IT'S beginning to look a lot like Christmas. We won't have chestnuts roasting on an open fire and we won't have Frosty the Snowman - it's much too warm for that in Singapore. But Santa Claus will still be coming to town. And in the case of, us, dividend investors, it could almost be Christmas every day.

When it comes to income investing, it can sometimes feel like Christmas every month of the year. But the reliability of the income stream can depend on whether we have been naughty or nice, which in the case of dividend investors is whether we have been successful with our stock selections.

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