Almost 10 years ago I packed in our U.S. ETFs and built a stock portfolio. It’s a public portfolio and it constitutes the bulk of our (for my wife and I) U.S. RRSP investments. Due to a spin off and merger the portfolio is now 20 stocks. The strategy was to build a portfolio that […]
Canadian stocks are on a win streak, on the Sunday Reads.
Canadian stocks posted a 3.33% gain for the week. It was the second consecutive week of solid gains after the near panic on Monday August 5th. U.S. stocks were up 4% while international stocks were up 3.5%. It was a week of fireworks and champagne cork popping for equities. It’s OK to celebrate, especially if […]
We’re retiring during the dot-com crash, on the Sunday Reads.
The 1990’s delivered one of the best decades for investors. It allowed many investors to quickly reach their retirement number. That is, they had enough invested in their portfolios to hopefully create income that could last for 3 or 4 decades. But along came the year 2000 and the start of one of the worst […]
Checking in on our U.S. stocks on the Sunday Reads.
It’s much more fun to check in on the U.S. stock portfolio, compared to our Canadian stocks that’s for sure. That’s where the action is. That’s where the portfolio growth driver lives. I created a U.S. stock portfolio in 2014/2015 and while this was not the goal, the portfolio has bested the S&P 500 by […]
Berkshire and Warren Buffett on the Sunday Reads.
Berkshire Hathaway is led by the greatest investor of all time – Warren Buffett. This weekend offered the Superbowl of investing events, the Berkshire Hathaway annual meeting. Shareholders (many multi, multi millionaires) and worshippers flock to Omaha, Nebraska to take in the musings of the Oracle of Omaha. It’s Woodstock for capitalists with Berkshire and […]
How much do you need to invest to become a millionaire?
There was a time when becoming a millionaire was a big deal. That meant that you were “rich”. These days, becoming a millionaire might be commonplace for an investor with modest or reasonable free cash flow to invest. Most of us should become “rich”. But of course, a million dollars ain’t what it used to […]