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Best 2015 Dividend stocks Mid-Year Results

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As you probably know already, each year I select 20 US and 10 Canadian dividend stocks that will outperform the dividend index (and hopefully the overall stock market). I started this tradition back in 2012 and so far, I’m almost always right. This means that almost all my portfolios have beaten their benchmark year after year. Some folks may think I’m doing this to show off, but that’s not the purpose. I carefully choose these companies based on my 7 dividend investing rules. The purpose of …

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Retirement, What Retirement?

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Wouldn’t be amazing to never retire? For the past 15 years, I’ve worked in the financial industry. For the past 15 years, I’ve been told to prepare for my retirement. I’ve been told the best thing in life is to get a job that provides a good pay check, social benefits and… a fully funded retirement pension plan. When I finished my bachelor degree in finance and marketing, I thought I had hit the jackpot starting to work in the financial industry. The job was interesting, the pay check was …

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I Prefer the Small Telus over the Giant Verizon

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David Vs Goliath Challenge – how a $25B market cap stock can beat a $202B market cap stock? Both Companies show strong customer loyalty, but only one evolves in an Oligopoly One company is trading at a 10% discount, the other at a 10% premium   Last week, I wrote a stock analysis for Seeking Alpha on Verizon (VZ), you can read the analysis here. While I was writing this article, I kept comparing this telecom giant vs one of my holdings; Telus Corporation (T.To or TU on the NYSE). …

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Investment Bias 101

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As the market is going a bit sideways after a mild earnings season, we are entering the famous “sell in May and go away” period, I thought of revisiting some investment biases we all experience at one point or another. When I did my financial classes, everything seemed so well calculated and rational. Financial theories are so simple, so easy to understand, it’s impossible to mess up the application in the real world, right? Investors are rational individuals making sound decisions based on …

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Dividend Reads for the Weekend

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It has been a rough two weeks for me. Nothing really special happens but I started to feel the weight of the big train I decided to push forward since January; working out 4 times a week, working 60-70hrs per week; coaching my son at soccer 3 times a week, being part of 2 fund raising committee (one for school and one for poor children in my city), etc. So far, I’ve way ahead in each goal I’ve fixed in the beginning of the year. But over the past two weeks, I’ve slowed down; I just couldn’t …

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Finding the Right Stock in The Current Market

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Have you taken a look at the recent earnings? It is without any surprise that many US companies posted slow revenue growth due to either a “challenging” environment or (an even more common excuse: due to a strong US dollar. I follow primarily dividend stock results and many of them are international businesses. No need to explain that a strong US dollar is hurting many dividend stocks in particular. The market didn’t overreact as it was more a mild earnings season without many …

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