New purchase : Telia Company

Added 50 shares of Telia Company (HEL:TELIA1) at 4.28€ per share. I now hold 200 shares of Telia Company. This purchase brings down my average purchase price to 4.39€ per share

TAL International Group, Inc. Announces Special Dividend in Connection with Triton Merger

PURCHASE, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 25, 2016-- TAL International Group, Inc. (NYSE:TAL) (“TAL”) today announced it has declared a one-time contingent special dividend of $0.54 per share to TAL stockholders of record as of the close of business on June 8, 2016, in connection with the previously announced combination of TAL and Triton Container International Limited (“Triton”). This dividend is contingent upon approval of the combination by TAL stockholders. Subject to such approval, the dividend will be paid on the first business day following the day of the TAL special meeting of stockholders to approve the proposed transaction, which is scheduled to take place on June 14, 2016. The special dividend will not be paid if TAL stockholders do not approve the proposed transaction.

Realty Income Corp June dividend

SAN DIEGO, May 17, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Realty Income Corporation (Realty Income, NYSE: O), The Monthly Dividend Company^®, today announced that its Board of Directors has declared the 551^st consecutive common stock monthly dividend. The dividend amount of $0.199 per share, representing an annualized amount of $2.388 per share, is payable on June 15, 2016 to shareholders of record as of June 1, 2016.

New purchase : Technopolis (TPS1V)

Added 55 shares of Technopolis (TPS1V) at 3.63€ per share. I now hold 700 shares of Technopolis

Orchid Island dividend for May

VERO BEACH, Fla., May 11, 2016 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Orchid Island Capital, Inc. (the "Company") (NYSE:ORC) announced today that the Board of Directors declared a monthly cash dividend for the month of May 2016. The dividend of $0.14 per share will be paid May 31, 2016, to holders of record on May 26, 2016, with an ex-dividend date of May 24, 2016.

Awilco Drilling dividend decreased for Q2 / 2016

The Board approved a dividend distribution payable in Q2 2016 of USD 0.10 per share. The share will trade ex-dividend on 24 May 2016, the record date is 25 May 2016 and the payment date is on or around 24 June 2016.

Dividend for previous quarter was USD 0.25, so this is again a disappointing decrease from Awilco Drilling. But this was expected as the revenue for the quarter was nil, both rigs are in shipyard. WilPhonenix was in shipyard whole quarter and WilHunter remains hot stacked in Invergordon shipyard.

Yardstay for WilPhonix is now completed and Awilco Drilling considers the rig to be reayd to drill awaiting Apache North Sea Ltd's instructions to resume operations. Apache North Star Ltd. does not agree that the rig is ready to drill, so there is some rough seas ahead for remaining contract.

Prospect Capital dividend for May to August 2016

NEW YORK, NY -- (Marketwired) -- 05/09/16 -- May 9, 2016 - Prospect Capital Corporation (NASDAQ: PSEC) ("Prospect") announced today that Prospect has declared monthly cash distributions to shareholders in the following amounts and with the following record and payment dates:

- 8.333 cents per share for May 2016 (record date of May 31, 2016 and payment date of June 23, 2016);
- 8.333 cents per share for June 2016 (record date of June 30, 2016 and payment date of July 21, 2016);
- 8.333 cents per share for July 2016 (record date of July 29, 2016 and payment date of August 18, 2016);
- 8.333 cents per share for August 2016 (record date of August 31, 2016 and payment date of September 22, 2016).

These distributions mark Prospect's 94th, 95th, 96th, and 97th consecutive cash distributions to shareholders.Prospect's closing stock price of $7.28 as of May 9, 2016 delivers to shareholders a current dividend yield of 13.7%.

Based on past distributions and assuming its current share count for upcoming distributions, Prospect since inception through its August 2016 distribution will have distributed $14.96 per share to original shareholders, aggregating $2.0 billion in cumulative distributions to all shareholders.
Prospect expects to declare its September and October 2016 distributions in August 2016.

New purchase : Emerson Electric Company (EMR)

New position started in portfolio. Emerson Electric Company (NYSE:EMR). Purchased 15 shares of EMR at $52.50 per share. EMR pays dividend with 3-6-9-12 schedule and my starting yield on cost is 3.61%

Telus Corp. dividend increase

TELUS Board of Directors has declared a quarterly dividend of 46 cents ($0.46) Canadian per share on the issued and outstanding Common Shares of the Company payable on July 4, 2016 to holders of record at the close of business on June 10, 2016. This is a 4.5% increase over the previous quarters dividend of 44 cents.

Since I own 37 shares of Telus Corp, this increase will add $2.96 to my 12 month forward dividends.
 

Main Street Announces Third Quarter 2016 Regular Monthly Dividends

 HOUSTON, May 4, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Main Street Capital Corporation (NYSE: MAIN) ("Main Street") is pleased to announce that its Board of Directors declared regular monthly cash dividends of $0.18 per share for each of July, August and September 2016.  These monthly dividends, which will be payable pursuant to the table below, total $0.54 per share for the third quarter of 2016, which is consistent with the regular monthly dividends declared for the second quarter of 2016 and represents a 3% increase from the regular monthly dividends paid for the third quarter of 2015.  Since its October 2007 initial public offering, Main Street has periodically increased the amount of its regular monthly dividends paid per share, and has never reduced its regular monthly dividend amount per share.  Including all dividends declared to date, Main Street will have paid $17.78 per share in cumulative cash dividends since its October 2007 initial public offering at $15.00 per share.

Summary of Third Quarter 2016 Regular Monthly Dividends
Declared	Ex-Dividend Date	Record Date	Payment Date	Amount Per Share
5/3/2016 5/3/2016 5/3/2016	6/29/2016 7/19/2016 8/17/2016	7/1/2016 7/21/2016 8/19/2016	7/15/2016 8/15/2016 9/15/2016	$0.18 $0.18 $0.18
		Total for Third Quarter 2016:		$0.54

New purchase : Southern Company (SO)

Added 17 shares of Southern Company (SO) at $50.58 per share. I now hold 29 shares of Southern Company.

New purchase : Telia Company

Added 50 shares of Telia Company (HEL:TELIA1) at 4.124€ per share. I now hold 150 shares of Telia Company.

Status update : April 2016

Dividends received in April :

Annually:

• 109.65€ from Technopolis (TPS1V)
• 116.60€ from Fortum (FUM1V) 
•  16.25€ from Telia Company (TELIA1)

Quarterly:

• 10.94€ from Telus Corporation (TU)
•  4.30€ from Coca-Cola Company (KO)
• 32.84€ from Chimera Investment Corp (CIM)
• 6.58€ from Bank of Nova Scotia (BNS)

Monthly:

• 2.29€ from Realty Income Corp (0)
• 11.97€ from Orchid Island Capital Inc (ORC) 
• 3.19€ from Main Street Capital Corporation (MAIN)
• 6.65€ from Prospect Capital Corporation (PSEC) 

This makes it a total of 321.26€ in dividends in April. Last year I received 161.51€ dividends in April. This is a 98.9% increase in dividends.