Shell is confident about the future and they outlined plans to boost shareholders returns. Two weeks ago, on June 4th 2019, Royal Dutch Shell (XAMS: RDS) outlined plans to boost shareholder returns after 2020, while also increasing spending on oil, gas…
Some metrics of my Vrijheid Fonds – 2019 Edition
My annual blog post about some important metrics of my Vrijheid Fonds – 2019 Edition. Since I started my blog, I asked myself, every year the same question about my Vrijheid Fonds, ‘What is my portfolio’s weighted average dividend growth…
Expected Dividend Increases in June 2019
Expected Dividend Increases in June for my Vrijheid Fonds. If you have visited Polliesdividend more often, you know that I track the dividend increases of the companies in my Vrijheid Fonds. There have been quite a few dividend increases announced so…
Work Freedom Day 2018
What is my Work Freedom Day at this moment? Every year I update this blog post about my journey to financial freedom. I’m traveling on this journey as a Dividend Growth Investor (DGI). This is not always a smooth…
Does my investment pay a higher dividend? – 2018
What is my Yield on Cost – 2018? In 2016 I did my first post about Yield on Cost (YOC). See my post YOC-2016. In this post I calculated the YOC for every stock I own. As we all know…
How sustainable is my Vrijheid Fonds?
Lets take a quick look at the sustainability of my Vrijheid Fonds. One of the most important topics at my work is sustainability. It is sustainability, cradle-to-cradle, circular, etc. Every project that is executed has to meet certain sustainability standards.…
Summary of Teaching my Kids Series – May 2018
Summary of Teaching my Kids Series. In august of 2015 I started this series about the wonderful world of investing. By writing these blog posts I try to educate my kids. And I hope my kids at the age…
Teaching my kids – Part 19: What is dividend?
Another post in the Teaching my kids series. This time a post were I try to explain to my kids what dividends are. As frequent reader of my blog you know that I’m writing some posts to try to financially…
Privacy Policy Polliesdividend
Today a blog post that is not about investing or savings, but a post about the necessary changes I had to make on my website. On May 25, the new European privacy law (The AVG or General Data Protection Regulation…
When do I reach Financial Independence? – Post 2018
At what age do I reach Financial Independence? Since the beginning of my blog, once a year, I write a post in which I calculated when I would reach FI. In order to track my progress, I will do the…