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Quick Guide to Analyze Dividend Funds
I’m well aware that most of you are stock pickers, but I noticed that I receive some email from beginner investors that find this blog in their quest to understand how investing works. Since most of them don’t have several thousand to invest in the first place (or they are stuck with their employer's pension plan mutual fund package!), they send me questions about mutual funds. While I obviously prefer selecting my own stocks, I can appreciate that you might not …
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It Takes 1 Stock To Crash Your Portfolio And 1 Stock To Bring it Back To Life
Investing can be pretty frustrating sometimes. You can make a lot of “okay” and “good” trades to make some decent profit. But if you have some bad luck to pick a poor company, your whole portfolio can be damaged. I just wrote the word “luck” in an investment blog… man! I should have written “if you have the lack of discipline to deviate from your investing strategy!”. It is true that you might run into some bad luck when you select your own stocks. But most of the time, when …
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3 Dividend Traps You Must Avoid
To What Point Are You Blind When Looking At Your Dividend Stocks? Have you ever heard of what investors call the “value trap”. A value trap happens when a stock is trading at a very appealing P/E ratio. Investors think they have found the deal of the year and they buy it without thinking further. The problem is that sometimes, the stock is a value trap: it’s worth a lot today, but the economics around the stock will eventually lead the company to be less …
Set Small Savings’ Objectives and Realize Big Returns
Let me share a little story with you this Monday morning… I find it very impressive to see the number of things I can learn from my kids. The most impressive is that not only do I learn life lessons, I also learn about money too! Since it’s summer time and we are all thinking about vacation, let’s start this Monday with a lighthearted story about saving money… Not so long ago, my son turned 7. Each year for his birthday, we bring him to Toys “R” Us …
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TSX 60 Dividend Yield & Ex-Dividend Date
don't have much time this morning, but here's the essential ;-) …
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