While most Americans are used to quarterly dividends, many overseas countries pay their dividends only semi-annually which makes holding them harder.

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The most common format is semi-annually (or two payment s per year).

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Also, he is prohibited from exercising discretionary trading authority in Maine and his supervisor must make at least 10 follow-up calls semi-annually to his Maine customers.

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It requires state public pension funds to report semi-annually to the legislature on those companies in portfolio that have business ties in Iran, Syria, Libya, Sudan and North Korea.

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Such symposia are held semi-annually in conjunction with the IATT meeting, where UN agencies and international NGOs come together to harmonize and improve the education sector response to HIV and AIDS around the world.

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Interest on the Seller Notes will be compounded semi-annually and will be payable in cash or in kind, at the election of the Purchaser, until the fifth anniversary of the Closing and in cash thereafter.

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Importantly, the agreement creates a United States-Afghanistan bilateral commission that will be chaired by foreign ministers on both sides that will meet semi-annually and that will oversee implementation of this agreement and other agreements with the Afghans.

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Does it happen quarterly or semi-annually or?

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If, instead, he had taken the dividends in cash, paid the taxes, and invested the rest in plain vanilla Series E U.S. Savings Bonds that were popular at the time which guaranteed a minimum annual interest of 4 percent, compounded semi-annually, tax-free the end result would have much different.

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