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When is the Right Time to Take Profit?

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This September is quite a special month and it is not because it will be my birthday soon. Nope, in September we are celebrating a great anniversary: it’s the 10th anniversary of the last market crash. For young investors like me (I’m turning 37), this was the only market crash where we lost a few thousand (or more). I was part of the lucky investors who didn’t have much money invested in the stock market back in 2008. I wasn’t smarter than anyone else, I just withdrew most of my money to …

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

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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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Should You Compare GIC Rates with Dividend Yield?

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*This article is for more beginner investors, but it was inspired by many emails I received. If you follow this blog from time to time, you have already noticed how much I prefer dividend growth stocks on top of high yielding companies. Some may think that it’s because of my age (36) and that I have about 50 years to invest my money. But the real reason is because I rather focus on my total return than my yield. In the end, if my portfolio yields 7% but has lost 25% of its value over the …

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How Can I Find Value in this Market?

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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 High Yield Portfolio? Only if You Meet Those 3 Criteria

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I’ve been fighting for many, many… many years. It has been an epic fight that started the day I switched my portfolio toward dividend paying stocks. When I started blogging about dividend growth investing, I was reminded several times by older investors that many of my picks didn’t mean anything to them. After all, who needs Disney (DIS) or Canadian National Railway (CNR.TO) with such low yield when you can buy Kinder Morgan (KMI) and Cominar (CUF.UN.TO). All right, I’m writing 2 two names in …

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I’m Retired, How Do I Withdraw my Money?

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Over the past could of weeks, I’ve been writing a lot about investing for retirees. We keep talking about how to build a portfolio for your retirement, but we often forget how to manage it once you get there. It’s like everything is over once you cross the finish line… but’s that just the start of another adventure. And this adventure starts with a simple question: how do I withdraw my investments once I’m retired? I’m obviously not ready to retire, so why would you listen to me? Because I’ve …

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