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Portfolio Management: What If?

Blog, Dividend Growth, Investing Strategy, Retirement

As you know already, I publish a monthly update of my pension plan portfolio. The idea is to show you, month after month, how I manage my own money using my investing strategy. A long-time reader sent me an email asking me to project my portfolio in the future. Here’s the what if he proposes: After 2-3 years, of your 11 U.S. stocks, what if 2 stocks were up 80%-100% (or more), 7 were up/down anywhere from +/- 0% to +/- 10%, and the remaining 2 stocks were down 15%, 20%, or more. What would you …

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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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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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Retirement: Should You Use the 4% Rule?

Blog, Retirement

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

Blog, Retirement

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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