My dividend paying stocks have been chugging along lately and I have been automatically reinvesting these dividends in more shares, My broker, CSA, takes care of this for me. For the month of October and to-date in November, I have received the following dividends or payments and completed the subsequent reinvestments into more shares: Company Dividends Shares Reinvested Coca-Cola Company $10.61 0.2185 shares General Electric $10.09 TBD Wal-Mart …
International Equities – Asset Allocation
As I have talked about many times before on this blog, I try to structure my investments so that I am diversified across US, Canadian, and International equities. The purpose of doing this is to ensure that I remain exposed to different markets across the world as theoretically, some markets will be heading up while others will be heading down. That is the theory anyway. In recent years, it seems that these markets as a whole have been moving up and down in step. I am not sure what to make …
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Slaughter in the Canadian Markets
You can't have an investing blog in Canada and not write about the blow up that occurred today in our markets as a result of the income trust policy change the federal government enacted. In essence, they have change the tax rules on trusts and the ability to reduce the amount of tax a corporation by converting to a trust. To sum up: Income trust investors suffered more than $20-billion in paper losses on their portfolios as some of Canada's best-known companies — from telecom giants BCE …
One Investor Sells, Another Investor Buys
I was doing some reading over at pfblogs.org and one particular post reminded me of a fundamental notion that occurs in the market every single moment of every single trading day - that for every seller there is an equally as enthusiastic buyer and for every buyer there is an equally enthusiastic seller. Around September 2005, 2million made a purchase of Merck on the weakness that the stock had gone through since the Vioxx problems. If you remember, I chose to sell the stock 8 months later …
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7 Stocks for the Really Long Term
Michael Sivy, one of my favorite columnists on the web has an interesting article where he chooses 7 stocks that he figures an investor will be able to hold for a very long time. He basis this on the premise that most stocks worth holding have particular traits that have made them successful investments in the past, and should continue this success into the future: 1. The companies have raised earnings 2. The companies have raised dividends 3. The companies dominate the industry they are …
Writing Down Your Financial Goals
J.D. over at Get Rich Slowly wrote an interesting piece about setting up financial goals. In it he covers long, intermediate, and short term goals. He quotes: Many people make poor financial decisions because they don’t have long-term personal goals. If you don’t understand that buying a new cell phone or playing a game of poker takes money from a larger goal — a new home, a new car, a vacation to Europe — then there’s no incentive not to use the money for whatever seems fun at …
