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Passionate DivInvestor, Father of 3 & Retired from the corporate world at 35.

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Why a 2% Dividend Yield Portfolio Beats a 25% One

Who puts $750,000 into a portfolio paying 2% when the same money can buy a 25% yield? That is $15,000 of income a year against $187,500. Written that way, nobody picks the $15,000. I pick it. One of those two portfolios is still paying me in twenty years. The other one runs on a distribution […]

Is Dividend Investing Dead? What Died and What Didn’t

“Dividend investing as I knew it and loved it is dead.” That is not my line. It belongs to Todd Wenning, a dividend investor who spent years making the case for dividend growth stocks. He published it on Flyover Stocks. The Globe and Mail picked it up. A reader named Kevin sent it to me. […]

Wealthsimple Revenue: Why $155 Billion Earns Less Than You Think

Wealthsimple holds $155.6 billion for 3.6 million clients. Assets are up 84% in one year. The second quarter alone added $30.8 billion, with roughly $17 billion of that arriving as net inflows. Now open Power Corporation’s second quarter and look for the Wealthsimple line. You will find Great-West Lifeco at $871 million. You will find […]

BMO and Scotiabank Earnings: Great Results at a 39% Premium

Scotiabank grew earnings per share 21% last quarter. BMO grew 22%. Both used the word record. Neither was exaggerating. This is the best week of the summer if you own Canadian banks, and it started about as well as it could have. I went through both quarters line by line looking for a problem. In […]