2019 was certainly the year of the total return portfolios. Markets in Canada, the US and around the globe delivered stellar returns. We’ll check in on the high dividend yield ETF portfolios for 2019. As a benchmark please have a read of the core ETF portfolio returns for 2019. The high dividend yield portfolio on […]
How do you invest in the Canadian stock market?
This post will focus on building your own portfolio of individual Canadian stocks. There are so many simple and interesting ‘stock picking’ strategies for the Canadian market. Many of the strategies focus on the big Canadian dividend payers. We’ll look at a few of those strategies. This might hold the answer to how do you […]
The dividend aristocrat portfolio – 2019 returns.
There are two dividend ETF portfolios on Cut The Crap Investing. Many investors enjoy a dividend focus. Some investors will simply shade in a dividend ETF or two in concert with their core holdings. We’ll have a look at the dividend aristocrat portfolio and the returns for 2019. Once again it was an incredible year […]
What happens when you buy stocks without looking.
Yup, always a good idea, right? Someone offers you a challenge and you then take a good portion of your retirement monies (aka future) and you buy a bunch of stocks without looking. And then, you continue to hold these stocks without looking. To add more fuel to the ‘what the heck are you doing?’ […]
Investing for income in Canada in 2019.
Many investors like income. They like to get paid. There is great enjoyment in watching the dividends or bond income or specialty income arrive in the portfolio. It feels like a pay cheque. Investors do not always get that same satisfaction from watching their portfolio value shoot up in spectacular fashion. Perhaps they don’t trust […]
The Invesco Canadian Dividend ETF. Is this my new favourite?
I recently took at took at Vanguard’s High Dividend Yield ETF VDY vs iShares High Yield ETF XEI. Those are both very solid options in the dividend space. I would give the nod to the more concentrated VDY. As per the previous post that fund is concentrated in Canadian financials and it largely takes a […]