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5 Bullet Proof Metrics to Follow for All Investors

Blog, Dividend Growth, Investing Strategy, Stock Selection

About a year ago, I was about to receive a big fat check of $108K from my former employer’s pension plan. I decided to manage this money and build my own retirement portfolio following my dividend growth investing strategy. A lot of investors on this blog were sceptic about my decision. Why would you invest all your money at the top of the market? They said. I even went a little further. Since I saw lots of interest from you guys, I decided to publish my portfolio and update it month after …

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As an Investor, You Control These Six Factors – Nothing Else

Blog, Investing Strategy

Many investors are obsessed with the timing of their investments. They think they can predict what will happen with the stock market and will find the magic loophole that will make their investment profitable. I find this premise interesting because if there is one thing we don’t control as investors, it’s how the market reacts. Sometimes, there is great news that doesn’t affect the market at all and other times, missing analysts expectations could kill your stock even if the numbers were good. …

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3 Reason to Keep a 100% Equity Portfolio Until You Die

Blog, Dividend Growth, Investing Strategy, Principles, Retirement

Last week, I shared my latest dividend income update. I used to be highly against tracking down my dividend income because I’m more interested in my total return than anything else. However, I thought it would be a great idea to show investors that you can invest at the “top” of a bull market and build a dividend growth portfolio. I want to show that the “top of the market” is always relative. Frankly, it doesn’t really matter what time period you invest your money. I received an interesting …

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I Have One Year Left Until Full FIRE

Blog, Personal Update, Retirement

On July 1st 2017, I started a new life. I had officially quit my job and start working full time on my dividend investing service Dividend Stocks Rock. On that day, I officially retired from the corporate world, but I didn’t exactly reach F.I.R.E. (Financial Independence and Retiring Early). The FIRE story is getting lots of traction among financial bloggers and it’s even more popular for dividend bloggers. The idea is quite simple; not having to wake up and work all day to pay for your …

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July Dividend Income Report

Blog, Dividend Income Report

In September 2017, I received slightly over $100K as a result of the commuted value of my pension plan. I decided to invest 100% of this money into dividend growth stocks. Each month, I publish my dividend income report. I don’t do this to brag, I do this to show you it’s possible to build a portfolio during an all-time high market. The market will crash... eventually. In the meantime, I’d rather cash some juicy dividends! Portfolio holdings Numbers are as of August 1st 2018: Canadian …

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4 Stocks for Your Retirement Portfolio

Blog, Retirement

Last week, I’ve introduced you to the 4% rule for retirees. The whole idea to work with this simple rule is to build a portfolio generating over 4% in yield with a dividend growth perspective to beat inflation (about 2%). On July 31st (Today!)DSR will launch 2 retirement portfolios (one 100% Canadian and another 100% US). You can learn more about them here.  Each portfolios will include 20 robust and high yielding stocks. Today, I’m offering 4 of our picks (2 US and 2 Canadian). I obviously …

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