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Waiters Are Gonna Wait

Blog, Investing Strategy, Principles

Back in September 2017, I started doing webinars about various investing topic. This reminds me of my good old times when I was working with clients. While I can’t and don’t provide buy/sell recommendations or personal financial advice during those sessions, I still enjoy the interaction I have with other investors. As a private banker, I enjoyed doing conferences and “teaching” how the investing world works. Now, I can reach thousands of people instead of a few hundred clients. If you haven’t …

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What is the Importance of Past Data in Your Investment Process?

Dividend Growth, Investing Strategy, Principles, Stock Selection

On Tuesday, I explained how I intend to grow a 192K portfolio into 1 million before I retire. After over a decade spent in working, researching and investing in the stock market, I feel well confident that I can make it happen. A fellow blogger, Dividend Geek, pointed out a very interesting question: How we use past data to predict future (without taking into account macroeconomic trend, e.g. AMZN) baffles me. While we picking dividend growers, are we not again relying on past data? Past …

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Growing 192K to $1M; This is How a Former Private Banker Does It

Dividend Growth, Investing Strategy, Principles, Retirement

Summary #1 At the age of 36, I have $192,430 invested for my retirement. #2 I plan to reach the iconic million dollar value by the age of 59. #3 This article is not about more raw calculation numbers, you can do that. #4 This article is about how I will manage my assets to get there while sleeping at night. *you might want to print or bookmark this article as it is over 2,700 words of wisdom ;-) If you have been following me for a few months, you already know that I quit my job this …

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Investing is like Cooking – An Investing Guide for a Good Recipe

Investing Strategy, Principles

I like to describe myself as a man of many passions. In fact, I rarely do something if I’m not passionate about it. My passions include (but are not limited to!) investing and cooking. I just love my Fridays and Saturdays when I have the time to cook a good meal and accompany it with some music and a delicious bottle of wine. Interestingly enough, there are a lot of lessons to learn from cooking that can be applied to investing. Today, I want to use this analogy a little bit further to simplify …

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Three Key Questions You Must Ask Yourself Before Purchasing A Dividend Stock

Canadian Dividend Stocks, Dividend Growth, Investing Strategy, Principles

Note this is a guest post from Dan at Stocktrades.ca. Dan is an active Canadian dividend growth investor with whom I share many investing similarities. Hope you enjoy! -Mike Dividend investing isn't exactly the risky business that growth investing is. That being said, a lot of people have the misconception that dividend investing is a bullet-proof route. Although excellent income stocks tend to be resilient during adverse market conditions and often survive the lows of a bear market, you …

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Should Your Holdings Reflect Your Values?

Investing Strategy, Principles

Source: author’s picture With it being Thanksgiving in the U.S. today, I thought of writing an article to make us all think about our actions. I’m going tell you upfront: I’m divided about this topic. As an investor, I sometimes forget the overall impact of my actions. After all, the very first thing I’m interested in is making money. The reason why I invest money is obviously to use this vehicle to get richer, to reach my financial independence, and to retire wealthy and …

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