Given $1500 every two weeks to start building a dividend portfolio. What would the best approach be?
Buy something every two weeks for 1500 or wait and buy when you have 3000.....
It depends on your transaction fees.
If they are zero, just invest whenever you have the money.
Same if it is a %
If it's a fixed sum then you might prefer minimizing it and investing in larger chunks.
Also remember that there is nothing "magical" about dividends.
If company X distributes cash to shareholders, its real value diminishes by X the moment they do so.
I personally value dividends (my largest single stock holding is Royal Dutch, that I own since 2006), but I am aware that there's nothing special about them, aside from the fact that usually companies that pay good dividends are big, stable, mature companies that generate a lot of cash (which are usually the type of companies I like to buy, all the rest is index)