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Things That could Ruin Your Retirement Portfolio Part II

Blog, Investing Strategy, Retirement

In my latest post, I started a 3 parts series on factors making a big difference in your retirement portfolio. If you don’t consider them, your retirement plan could go bust faster than the plane you are taking to travel Europe this summer. The first article was about the infamous inflation.  This post will explore another problem many retirees face when building their portfolio; asset allocation. There are a handful of sectors offering what retirees want: high yield and a solid …

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Things That Could Ruin Your Retirement Portfolio Part I

Blog, Investing Strategy, Retirement

Since I received the commuted value of my pension plan last year, I’ve given lots of thoughts about building a retirement portfolio. In that optic, lots of retirees ask me to write a more detailed approach about a higher yielding portfolio. Since I’ve received lots of demands coming from my Dividend Stocks Rock members to build a “retiree ready” portfolio, I will be launching such portfolio models this month. I thought of detailing my process on this blog to help you understand the difference …

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May 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 results. 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 rather cash out on some juicy dividends! Portfolio holdings Numbers are as of June 1st 2018: Canadian portfolio …

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It’s been a year already?

Blog, Personal Update

On June 4th 2017, I crossed the border of Canada around 7pm to come back home from a 1 year RV trip. I spent the most amazing year of my life with my wife and three children. For 12 months, I drove for over 35,000 km visiting 9 countries. We started our adventure in Quebec and went all the way down to Costa Rica. Unfortunately, we had to come back to Canada. I use the word “unfortunately” because all I wanted back then was to sell everything and keep travelling the world. The freedom, the …

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How Can I Find Value in this Market?

Blog, Investing Strategy, Principles

Sell in May and Go Away… With such an overvalued market, I bet you thought about that old saying, didn’t you? After all, finding value in a stock market that has been running higher and higher for the past 9 years is called “mission impossible” by many investors. You might as well sell and go away until the market cools off. But just don’t go yet… There is lots of value to be found For all the sceptics in this room, I’ll start by showing you several of my picks from my 100K portfolio …

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A Good Question for All Investors; Do You Have The Answer?

Blog, Investing Strategy

One thing I enjoy the most about running an investing platform is that I get the opportunity to connect with thousands of investors. We can share ideas and their questions often leads to great article ideas. This is exactly what happened the other day when a member asked me my opinion on an article from Market Watch asking a solid question to all investors: Will there ever be a time to buy in at lower levels? In this article, Market Watch highlights the possibility of buying shares at a …

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