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The Investing Fee That Makes a $300,000 Difference

My best friend and I are both passionate about investing. We spend several hours a week reading, talking and debating finance topics. But among all financial topics, investing is definitely the most interesting! We recently had a debate about investment strategies with mutual funds (or discretionary investments) Vs ETF investing. We both wanted to know what is the real difference in an investor’s pockets between managing his own funds and paying someone to do it …

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Covered Call ETF Vs Pure Dividend Stocks

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About a year ago, I bought a Covered Call ETF: ZWB: BMO Covered Call ETF Canadian Banks (click here for the detail of my trade on ZWB). When I first bought it, the covered call ETF was a relatively new “financial invention” in Canada. I thought it was really interesting to have an ETF that was able to track the 6 strongest banks in the world while paying a higher dividend. At the time of the purchase, I think the dividend yield was roughly 10%. The main goal of …

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11 Surging Dividend Stocks That May Continue Their Ride

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In the past 2 weeks, I reviewed the Dividend Aristocrats along with the Canadian Dividend Aristocrats. I wanted to know what they have been up to for the past 5 years. This gave me another idea: what about this year? Which dividend stocks are rocking since the beginning of the year? Back in March, I would have had a long list to go through since we had a booming start of the year. Since then, the market got cold and some best performing stocks went back to …

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TSX60 Ex-Dividend Date & Dividend Yield

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If you have missed the Dividend Guy for the past 2 weeks, you must read the following 2 articles: Canadian Dividend Aristocrats US Dividend Aristocrats I've done an extensive review of dividend aristocrats on both market. Their results over the past 5 years may surprise you. In the past 2 weeks, we had the 6 Canadian Banks reporting their financial results. Besides RBC, most banks beat the analysts expectation and National Bank (NA) increased its dividend by 5% …

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Canadian Aristocrats; They Have it Too!!

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Last week, I took a shot at Dividend Aristocrats on theUS side. But did you know that Canadians have Dividend Aristocrats too? Mind you, I’m going to temper your hype right away, the minimum requirements are far from the “original” aristocrats lists. Unfortunately, the Canadian stock market is way smaller and less diversified than the US market. It is actually impossible to find a good amount of stocks that have been increasing their dividend for 25 consecutive …

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How Dividend Aristocrats Have Done Over The Past 5 Years?

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When you are about to invest for the first time in dividend stocks, there are 2 things you must do: #1 Download my free dividend investing eBook #2 Look at the Dividend Aristocrats lists to build your “stocks on the radar list” Mind you, besides Dividend Aristocrats, you can also get a copy of my free eBook on the Best Dividend Stocks 2012! While my dividend eBooks are the perfect guides for someone who wants to start investing, …

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