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This is a guest post from a fellow Canadian blogger Robb. Robb Engen is a DIY investor and blogs about personal finance at Boomer & Echo.  You can follow him on Twitter @BoomerandEcho.   How well did your investments perform last year?  Did your portfolio beat the market?  Which market? You can look at your mutual fund prospectus or use a website like Morningstar to see how individual funds performed, but this won't give you your personal rate of return. You’ll need to …

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Investing is not speculating on emotions   Sometimes, I get the feeling that the more I read the financial news, the more people are going crazy. It’s either overly optimistic or very pessimistic investors using the public space to scream their vision to the world. They come with charts, facts and tons of data to support their dogma.   I’m writing this post to present both philosophy and how an investor can be tricked when reading a well researched and written article by …

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    At the beginning of each month, I make a recap of the dividend yield and ex dividend date of the TSX 60. In addition to this recap, I’ve decided to cover briefly the result of my Best 2013 Dividend Stock Book. This book includes 30 stocks analysis (20 US and 10 CDN) for only $2.99. So far, my results are: 20 US Dividend Stocks: +20.60% (beating the index by 8.85%) 10 CDN Dividend Stocks: +2.32% (beating the index by 0.70%)   If you want to read more, just continue …

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