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 …
July 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 …
4 Stocks for Your Retirement Portfolio
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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Retirement: Should You Use the 4% Rule?
While I was going through my research about retirement withdrawing strategies, I’ve seen several articles discussing the 4% rule withdrawing strategy. In general, I’m against pretty much any rule of thumb used or suggested in the investing world as everybody’s situation is unique. This means, that we don’t have the same money, same lifestyle and same investing strategy. Therefore, how can a rule of thumb be applied? Investing is very personal and there is more than a single good answer to a …
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4 Steps to Manage your Retirement Portfolio
It is quite funny to read all those articles about investing when you are accumulating wealth. There are tons of them on how to build and grow your portfolio. However, it becomes more complicated when you search for articles about managing a retirement portfolio. You work your whole life and you put money aside. Then, one day you finally quit your job for good and retire. Congratulations! You did it! You are now free to do whatever you want, whenever you want. You can travel, eat out and achieve …
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June 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’d rather cash some juicy dividends! Portfolio holdings Numbers are as at June 30th 2018: Canadian portfolio …
