text: May 2013 - Page 2 of 3 - My Journey to Millions
  05/16/2013 10 comments
  05/13/2013 1 comment
  by My Journey to Millions 05/10/2013
  by My Journey to Millions 05/08/2013
  For the past few years every few months I have updated my dividend watch list (last dividend investment portfolio update April 2013). I recently decided since this account is moving up in terms of a priority (i.e. I am depositing more and more money into it) I should update the watch list every month to six weeks. If you are into dividend investing you probably will enjoy these posts, if you aren't you probably won't.
  I think this particular update should be interesting in the years to come, because today (as well as a few days over the past few weeks) the market as a whole hit new highs. As such, I believe it is more important than ever to find stocks which may be undervalued so if there is a correction maybe the market won't throw out the baby with the bathwater.
  05/08/2013 4 comments
  by My Journey to Millions 05/06/2013
  Was watching a special on CNBC on Marriott and was shocked to learn that Marriott doesn't actually own many hotels. Rather Real Estate Investment Trusts and other companies own the hotels and pay Marriott to manage them!
  That reminded me of two shocking about two product ownership flow charts I have seen:
  Who actually owns Common House Hold Products?
  You'll most likely need to click to enlarge the picture:
  It is almost like you literally can't avoid buying from a certain company. For example lets say you don't like "Dove" because they club baby seals (disclaimer: Dove doesn't club baby seals) so you buy Axe body wash…it doesn't matter! You still provided Unilever with money.
  You could buy stock in these 10 parent companies and basically own every consumer good in existence!
  * I am not sure who created this flow chart so I can't give credit where credit is due.
  Product Ownership Flow Chart for Organic Products
  Even crazier is to find out that your favorite "pure" product is owned by a ridiculously huge conglomerate. I am sure the landscape has changed, but I found an excellent flow chart prepared by Professor Howard out of Michigan University (You'll have to open the PDF below):
  I also found a list of organic parent companies who have lobbied against GMO regulations:
  Please note I didn't verify the data, but some pretty shocking information about some product ownership.