DivGuy, Author at The Dividend Guy Blog

Thoughts from a Young Entrepreneur – Is 150 Days Enough to Change Your Life?

On July 1st, 2017, my whole life changed. I was back officially from my one-year RV trip across North and Central America. After spending over 365 days away from my house, I was taking back my old life, the one that I had packed in a cardboard box in my basement. I took everything back… but my job. I started my journey toward entrepreneurship on that day. Since I never do things half-way, I got my house keys back on July 1st and hosted my first business meeting on July 3rd. Here’s a taste of …

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November Dividend Income Report

Blog, Dividend Income Report

This is my second dividend income report and I must admit, I have started to enjoy doing it! I never realized the fun of calculating your monthly passive pay check. In fact, I was too busy focusing on growth to care about how much I made last month. Still, receiving almost $200 this month in dividend definitely made me smile! Portfolio holdings I started this pension portfolio in September with the sum of $108,760.02. As of December 1st, my portfolio shows a total value of $118,392.67 …

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Investing is like Cooking – An Investing Guide for a Good Recipe

Investing Strategy, Principles

I like to describe myself as a man of many passions. In fact, I rarely do something if I’m not passionate about it. My passions include (but are not limited to!) investing and cooking. I just love my Fridays and Saturdays when I have the time to cook a good meal and accompany it with some music and a delicious bottle of wine. Interestingly enough, there are a lot of lessons to learn from cooking that can be applied to investing. Today, I want to use this analogy a little bit further to simplify …

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Three Key Questions You Must Ask Yourself Before Purchasing A Dividend Stock

Canadian Dividend Stocks, Dividend Growth, Investing Strategy, Principles

Note this is a guest post from Dan at Stocktrades.ca. Dan is an active Canadian dividend growth investor with whom I share many investing similarities. Hope you enjoy! -Mike Dividend investing isn't exactly the risky business that growth investing is. That being said, a lot of people have the misconception that dividend investing is a bullet-proof route. Although excellent income stocks tend to be resilient during adverse market conditions and often survive the lows of a bear market, you …

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Should Your Holdings Reflect Your Values?

Investing Strategy, Principles

Source: author’s picture With it being Thanksgiving in the U.S. today, I thought of writing an article to make us all think about our actions. I’m going tell you upfront: I’m divided about this topic. As an investor, I sometimes forget the overall impact of my actions. After all, the very first thing I’m interested in is making money. The reason why I invest money is obviously to use this vehicle to get richer, to reach my financial independence, and to retire wealthy and …

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How to start an education fund for your kids

Dividend Growth, Portfolio Building

How can I pay for my children’s tuition fee? This is a question we often ask ourselves when we see our kids blowing their candles on their 16th birthday (like it or not, they will still accept candles if they get a bigger piece of the cake!). At that point, it is sometimes too late to think about funding their education. Hopefully you read this article before it happens. I’m going to do a brief review of how to start saving for your child’s education and I will quickly jump to what is of …

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