The route to financial freedom is just ahead... View Full Size Travel Map at Travellerspoint The Trip of my Life The map above is our “final” itinerary for our one year RV trip. I write “final” as fate will decide the exact road we will take. In the meantime, this is half of the trip that is planned. Here are a few interesting numbers about this itinerary: This is 162 days of travel; 14,926km or 9,275 miles estimated; 4 provinces; 15 …
Consumer Defensive – Ready to Face the Bear
The month on the stock market has been quite hectic but it seems that earnings are bringing back some calm to the Street. We see that after January 20th, the market started to bounce back after good earnings’ reports. It is still unclear if we will suffer a bear market or are just going through a correction with greater volatility. On the Canadian stock market, we hit the -20% return from the TSX summit of 2015 and can technically call it a bear market. However, we don’t need much to turn …
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4 Strong Dividend Growth Stocks for your RRSP
When investing for your retirement, be sure of one thing; the investment should allow you to sleep well at night. When you build a retirement portfolio, the very first thing you want is to buy solid companies that will be there for the next 50 years. A classic quote from Warren Buffett was that he always pick shares of a company that he would feel good about even if the stock market had to close for 10 years. In other words; the world’s most successful investor doesn’t pick up the flavor of the …
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How do You Deal With Impact of Currency Now?
Canadians are now more confused than ever as to whether or not they should invest in the US market. There are many factors playing in the investor's mind at the moment. Before we tackle the currency challenge, let’s take a look at how both the US and Canadian markets did over the past 10 years: source: Ycharts As you can see, while the Canadian market had its moment of glory between 2008 and 2012, the US market easily crushed the Canadian market since then. The reason is quite simple; the …
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New Purchase: EMERA
Following up on my article last week that covered my first purchase in my children’s tuition fund, I’m updating my portfolio with a second purchase. I actually bought shares of 4 different companies in January, but I thought it was more fun to discuss them over 5 different weeks :-) hahaha! As the market dropped like a rock over the first three weeks of 2016, I looked at some interesting picks for a 10-15 year investment horizon. I purchased 50 shares of Emera (EMA) Investment Thesis As …
20 Strong Dividend Growth Stocks – Rock Solid Ranking Free Report
Last year, I created the Rock Solid Ranking, a dynamic stock ranking list that shows a value for each dividend stock I follow. I’ve worked on calculations that consider several metrics in order to find the best companies among all those on the stock market. This list is particularly useful when the stock market is becoming highly valued (not overvalued yet in my opinion). Each month, I’ll be sharing with you, for free, the top 10 dividend growth stocks for both the US and Canadian markets. …
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