Yesterday we had a look at the Canadian high dividend approach that has returned to its market-beating ways. An interesting and popular approach for investors who build their own stock portfolio is the BTSX index. That ‘index’ suggests that you buy the top ten highest yielding stocks that you’ll find in the TSX 60. Keep […]
Big Canadian dividends are having their way.
Many Canadian self-directed investors love dividend stocks. And they mostly love their Canadian dividend stocks that pay big juicy dividends. And those big dividend payers have a very nice history of increasing dividends as well. That dividend growth can be in the area of 8% or more. Who doesn’t like an 8% annual raise? Add […]
The Dividend Aristocrats for retirement, on Sunday Reads.
The Dividend Aristocrats are U.S. stocks (members of the S&P 500) that have increased their dividends for at least 25 years or more. That index methodology will find incredible quality and it also offers a large cap bias. Large cap (capitalization) means that the companies are at the higher end with respect to what it […]
The big Canadian banks go big on the Sunday Reads.
The big Canadian banks reported quarterly earnings this week, and they mostly did not disappoint. Thanks to the reopening of provinces and fewer COVID restrictions we are making some progress on the economic front and many see less risk in the banking sector. The banks are removing monies from their rainy day funds. Those amounts […]
Checking in on the Canadian wide moat portfolio.
It’s a trade off. I hold a concentrated portfolio of Canadian stocks. What I give up in greater diversification, I gain in the business strength and potential for the companies that I own to not fail. They have wide moats or exist in an oligopoly situation. For the majority of the Canadian component of my […]
Building the $8 million dollar portfolio on the Sunday Reads.
On the Tawcan blog, Bob has interviewed a Canadian reader who built a massive portfolio. The reader invests in Canadian dividend stocks (surprise surprise) and has built an annual $360,000 income stream before taxes. And while the investor has likely done a few things that are ‘wrong’, or let’s say not optimal, there is no […]