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 […]
The Canadian stock market tops 20,000 on The Sunday Reads.
This week we celebrated a Canadian stock market milestone as the TSX Composite Index broke the 20,000 level. It also closed above the 20,000 level on Friday. I covered that investing high jump record in my weekly MoneySense post. And in Canadian fashion I offered the double double scorecard. From 5,000 to 10,000 it took […]
Investing in Canadian banks on Sunday Reads.
Canadian investors suffer from a ‘terrible’ home bias. That is we are waaaaaay overweight our Canadian stocks compared to US and other International stock markets. Well, so goes the theory. Canadian ETF investors are more ‘sensible’ and have a near equal allocation to Canadian and US markets with a more modest but meaningful allocation to […]
The beat the TSX portfolio. Can it do it again?
The beat the TSX portfolio (hypothetical ticker BTSX) has a wonderful longer term habit of beating the market. The strategy is dead simple. BTSX will simply hold the top ten yielding stocks from the TSX 60. It will change the constituents (holdings) for the first trading day of each year, and it will continue to […]
My new favourite Canadian ETF. The CI Wisdom Tree Quality Dividend ETF.
Thanks to Rob Carrick for this ETF idea. Well actually it was putting two Globe Investor pieces together. In this case, one plus one equals the CI Wisdom Tree Quality Dividend ETF – ticker DGRC. It combines the qualities that I personally look for in an equity ETF. Make that a meaningful dividend growth history […]