After discussing Canadian REITs this Monday, I thought of building the 2011 Top 10 Canadian REITs List for your viewing pleasure (and trading ideas ;-) ). As I have mentioned before I think this is the right time to buy Canadian REITs. While restructuring my portfolio, I am considering adding one or 2 Canadian REITs. 2011 Top 10 Canadian REITs List What To Consider When Buying A Canadian REIT While there are many reasons …
Canadian REITs 2011 Income Trust Survivors
We just turned the corner into 2011 and something big happened on the Canadian market; most income trusts have disappeared. On Halloween of 2006 (you talk about scary news, huh?), the Canadian Finance minister, Jim Flaherty, announced that most income trusts will have to convert into corporations by January 1st 2011. This was in reaction of the growing interest for corporations to switch over to an Income Trust structure for taxation purposes. It all started with the famous …
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3 Questions To Help You Sell Your Stocks
Before I went on vacation for the Holidays, I mentioned that I was going with dividends all the way in my portfolio. I’m currently reviewing my holdings and trying to sell my other stocks. I have never had any problem with buying stocks as I don’t believe much in market timing. Therefore, when I have liquidity and a stock seems interesting, I just log in and buy it! The real problem comes when I think of selling my stocks… 3 Questions to know if you should sell your stock or …
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Open a Trading Account and Put $50 In Your Pocket Promotion
I usually don’t promote trading accounts and won’t make it a habit either, but when the product is good and there is a promotion, I believe you should know about it. Open a trading account with TradeKing and put $50 in your pocket!*. TradeKing is celebrating their 5th anniversary in 2011 and they are offering this promotion for a limited time (Account must be opened before January 31st 2011!). Since I am Canadian and can’t open a trading account with TradeKing, I can't take advantage …
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3 Reasons Why I Go Dividend Investing in 2011 (Restructuring my Whole Portfolio)
I’ll be honest with you, I have always been a dividend fan. In fact, I had started to take a serious look at dividend investing early in 2009 while all stocks were really undervalued. Even then, at that time, I couldn’t invest much myself in analyzing stocks as I was investing all my money into the highest dividend payer of all time; my online company. So I left my RRSP account alone (for US readers, an RRSP is a Canadian program that stands for Registered Retirement Savings Plan and …
Why Companies Pay Dividends And Why Some Others Should Do The Same
When I first started my bachelor's degree in finance 10 years ago, I didn’t know much about dividend investing. In fact, I didn’t know much about the stock market period. In our very first finance class, we learned an important financial principal; why companies pay dividends. But in order to understand why companies pay dividends, you must understand why investors would buy any stocks in the first place. To keep it simple, let's say that there are only 2 things you can invest …
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