Simon Lambert is the editor of This is Money and has been a financial journalist for almost 20 years. Simon writes about everything to do with money, but has a keen interest in investing, the ...

You'd need to buy a lot of shares to generate $1,000 per year ... you'd receive about 4% of your purchase price in dividends each year. (Note, too, that healthy and growing dividend payers ...

Some brokers have started offering an online facility that lets you easily gift shares, bonds, exchange traded funds and even ...