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The Only Thing That Matters is Your Core Portfolio

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      The news around the stock market is not too good these days. I’m writing this article late on Monday Oct 7th and no solutions have been found for the Government Shutdown. The market is down roughly by 1% over the past couple of weeks and we can expect more volatility if the problem persists.   At the end of this summer, we discussed Hindendburg Omens from right, left and center. All technical analyzes are clear: we are heading towards a market correction. Stocks …

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Dividend Read for the Weekend

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    For the past two weeks, I’ve been quite active behind the scene and worked on a brand new project. If you want to learn more, just click here (you won’t be disappointed ;-) ). On Monday morning, I’ll be back with the impact of low interest bonds on your portfolio and how you can benefit from this huge cash movement leavings bonds to…. More on Monday!   Here’s the interesting read I found for the weekend:   1. Top 100 Dividend Stocks by Intelligent …

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TSX 60 Ex-Dividend Date + How I Beat The Market With My Stock Picks

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    Sorry for the delay people, I’ve been crumbling under a pile of work this week and couldn’t come up with this post before now. If you are curious about what I’m working on, check this out ;-)   TSX 60 Ex-Dividend Date – Some Stocks Don’t Pay Their Dues!   Before I go ahead and publish the TSX 60 Ex-Dividend date monthly chart, I must admit that I was quite surprised to see that 5 stocks out of 60 aren’t paying dividends. There were only 3        (Valeant – …

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100 Investment Lessons in less than 5 minutes

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Today, I wanted to write something different. It’s like a exercise in writing fast as I tried to pull out of my brain 100 investment lessons you can read, understand and use within the next 5 minutes. So grab your coffee mug, take a sip and let’s start!   *Note, the 100 investment lessons are not in any particular order, they were simply pulled out of my brain in this order. 100 Investment Lessons   1. Never speculate by putting all your money in one stock. 2. Dividend …

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Dividend Read for the Weekend

Best Dividend Posts of the Week

    This week was the “back to busy” week. My daughter started ice skating and my son is making his first step in the elite camp training at soccer tonight. It will be interesting J. Did you have a busy week? Here’s some good read to relax over the weekend!   1. I’ve found the most complete (and free!) resource to understand annuitiesé 2. Interesting paper at Institutional Investor which claims it’s almost impossible to beat the market. 3. Growth Stock Wire …

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8 Investing Strategies, What’s Yours?

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    You probably work very hard earning your money and putting a few bucks aside. But once your savings grow, you then wonder what to do with it to make it even bigger. What’s the point of having $10,000 sitting in your ING account paying less than 2%, right? This is the moment when you start looking for an investment strategy: will you invest in stocks or bonds? Dividend or penny stocks?   What’s the best investment strategy? That all depends on your type of investor. …

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