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Toronto-Dominion Bank, through its subsidiaries, engages in the provision of retail and commercial banking, wealth management, and wholesale banking products and services in North America and internationally. It operates through four segments: Canadian Personal and Commercial Banking, Wealth Management, U.S. Personal and Commercial Banking, and Wholesale Banking.

Financial stocks,which used to be great dividend investments,have had their share of troubles over the past two years.The sector has rebounded sharply since hitting its lows in March.Since the major dividend growth stories of the past such as Bank of America and US Bancorp have cut dividends, most dividend growth investors seem to have a very low allocation to the sector.As a result dividend inves

By purchasing international stocks one essentially receives income in a different currency, which is a decent hedge against a possible devaluation of the US dollar. Another benefit of shopping for quality dividend stocks abroad is the huge potential for economic growth and development that both established and emerging economies posses.

The Ultimate DRIP-folio; an interactive exercise for investors to help develop a diversified portfolio of stocks that have eligible DRIPs. This portfolio should be the standard among all investors interested in constructing a portfolio that takes advantage of DRIPs and compounding returns over the long-term.

Dividends have historically contributed 35% - 40% of annual total returns over the past century. Re-invested dividends however are touted to have provided 97% of S&P 500 total returns between 1871 and 2008.

When I make an investment in a company I am looking out several years so that someday I will receive 'two in the bush' in the form of a tidy capital gain. In the meantime though, why can't the company pay me for my trouble?

Canadian banks are currently in the midst of reporting their latest quarterly earnings and they are not pretty. Write-downs and losses are dragging down these earnings reports in a major way. That being said, no Canadian bank is yet to cut their precious dividend yet.

The Oct 2008 update of my leveraged dividend portfolio.

The Toronto-Dominion Bank is an international dividend achiever as well as a component of the TSX 300 index. It has been increasing its dividends for the past 14 consecutive years. From the end of 1999 up until September 2008 this dividend stock has delivered an annual average total return of 17.90 % to its shareholders. The stock has lost 10 % of its value so far in 2008.

Ever since the broad market indexes entered into bear market territory and the dollar stopped falling against most of the major currencies, I have been checking the international dividend achievers list for bargains. I came up with the following dividend stocks list, using the followoing screen criteria:

A detailed look into first part of a stock analysis process using qualitative data: The Situational Analysis