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Covered Call ETF Vs Pure Dividend Stocks

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    About a year ago, I bought a Covered Call ETF: ZWB: BMO Covered Call ETF Canadian Banks (click here for the detail of my trade on ZWB). When I first bought it, the covered call ETF was a relatively new “financial invention” in Canada. I thought it was really interesting to have an ETF that was able to track the 6 strongest banks in the world while paying a higher dividend. At the time of the purchase, I think the dividend yield was roughly 10%.   The main goal of …

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TSX60 Ex-Dividend Date & Dividend Yield

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If you have missed the Dividend Guy for the past 2 weeks, you must read the following 2 articles: Canadian Dividend Aristocrats US Dividend Aristocrats   I've done an extensive review of dividend aristocrats on both market. Their results over the past 5 years may surprise you.   In the past 2 weeks, we had the 6 Canadian Banks reporting their financial results. Besides RBC, most banks beat the analysts expectation and National Bank (NA) increased its dividend by 5% …

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Canadian Aristocrats; They Have it Too!!

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      Last week, I took a shot at Dividend Aristocrats on theUS side. But did you know that Canadians have Dividend Aristocrats too? Mind you, I’m going to temper your hype right away, the minimum requirements are far from the “original” aristocrats lists. Unfortunately, the Canadian stock market is way smaller and less diversified than the US market. It is actually impossible to find a good amount of stocks that have been increasing their dividend for 25 consecutive …

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The Best Source To Get Dividend Stock Picks

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If you follow my blog and register for my newsletter it’s probably because you are like me: you like safe and sound dividend paying stocks! I receive many emails from my readers asking me to publish more stock analyses in order to help them build their portfolios. The problem is that I’m like you: We both lack the time to follow every stock that interests me.   Fortunately, there are other great newsletters that also offer complete stock analyses. I’m not talking about those day …

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TSX 60 Ex-Dividend Date Dividend Yield

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So.... how was the month of April on your portfolio?   Mine wasn't too bad, but it wasn't great either! It's a good thing we have dividend to get paid to wait! Speaking of which, if you are looking for dividend increasing Canadian stocks, I've put together the fast growing dividend stock list. I bet you can find a few interesting pick there!   I know you are waiting for it, so here's the TSX 60 dividend yield and ex-dividend date stock list:     …

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Using Dividend ETF’s In A Dividend Portfolio

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Today I wanted to discuss dividend ETF's. I know, many of you will be surprised to hear me discuss using dividend ETF's. Why? If you are here, chances are that you want to build you own dividend portfolio. And why wouldn't you?   Choosing your own stocks has a lot of upside -You save on management fees (between 0.20-0.60% usually), those do add up over time -You have flexibility over how dividends are reinvested -You can decide which stocks to include or not -You can decide on your …

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