I decided I didn’t have enough from the article I wrote last week about dividend reports. Last week, I knew I was opening a can of worm when I wrote that I don’t understand the importance of tracking my dividend income on a monthly basis. While the discussion was very interesting on this blog, I got crucified for blasphemy on Seeking Alpha when they republished my article (at least they thought it was good enough to be read! Hahaha!). Don’t worry, I’m not going to go back to this post to defend …
What to Do with this Cash in your Investing Account?
The stock market is trading at its highest level ever; valuation multiples are increasing, it almost smells like food burning in the oven if you ask the “Swan Fans”. I get the following question from my readers almost daily of late: “I’ve an important sum of money sleeping in my cash account and I’m concerned about the current market. When is the right time to invest?” Here’s my straight to the point answer: The best time to invest was yesterday; If you didn’t do it yesterday, then …
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Dividend Income Report; The Good… and the Bad
I’m pretty sure you don’t solely read this blog if you are interested in dividend investing. Among your weekly reads, you probably include other great dividend blogs such as the ones I mention on my stock website resource page. Have you noticed something very common? Most bloggers report their monthly dividend income. I noticed throughout the years that many dividend investors focus on dividend income and not total return. For them, it doesn’t really matter if their capital grew or …
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12 Month Countdown to Financial Freedom
Wow… just writing the title is scary. Over the past 6 months, I’ve been working on a huge project. I’ve made my coworkers laugh a great deal when I told them I would retire at the age of 35. I didn’t tell them what I intend to do yet, but you know about it already. At the age of 35, I’m quitting my job, selling my stuff and leaving for a one year trip through the Americas (North & Central) with my wife and three children. This is now beyond the point of writing “I’m going to do it”. We …
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Dividend Reads for the Weekend
Yeah! It feels good to see the oil companies bouncing back this week! I’m still up by almost 10% ytd and now showing positive return on my purchase of BlackDiamond (BDI.TO). Remember that I sold McDonald’s (MCD) to buy it ;-). I guess this is the year of bold move and so far, it pays off! Speaking of which, in case you missed it, while half of the dividend blogger planet is buying, I sold ScotiaBank (BNS) and bought SNC Lavalin (SNC) instead. It was a techno week for me as I also …
CRM2 – You Will Finally Know if You Are Getting Fooled by Your Advisor!
Nope, I’m not going to discuss the next Star Wars Movie and hope that R2D2 will be part of it; I will discuss the impact of the no-media-attention-event of CRM2 or Customer Relationship Model Stage 2. For the past couple of years, the Canadian Government has deployed efforts to provide more financial information with regards to investment management fees (known as MERs) charged to clients by investing firms. If you read a couple of investing blogs, you are probably aware that management fees in …
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