The Dividend Guy Blog

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

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4 Signs of a Bear Market, and Why I Am Still Fully Invested

I have been fully invested in stocks for 23 years. I tell you to stay invested, and I mean it. Right now, indicators suggest a bear market is brewing. Four things bother me at the same time, and that has not happened in a while. Not one of them is making me sell a share. […]

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 […]