As we had suggested in the MoneySense Best ETFs for 2019, the One Ticket Asset Allocation ETFs are a game changer. An investor can enter 4 letters and purchase a well diversified and re-balanced portfolio at the risk level of choice. There’s really no reason to hold high fee mutual funds. You can access a […]
The Canadian Stock Market – Safe Haven For Stock Pickers?
This is a guest post by passionate investor Mike Heroux who authors The Dividend Guy Blog. I must tell you, since Dale started this blog, I’ve been a fan. While we are very different in many ways; we share something in common: the urge of sharing our investment knowledge and to make sure investors don’t […]
Weekend Reads: Why the FIRE gang may end up taking my order at Tim Hortons.
FIRE is an acronym for Financial Independence Retire Early, and of course it’s all the rage these days. Good luck to everyone on this front. Those old enough will remember those Freedom 55 commercials from London Life. It was a very successful ad campaign in which the current stressed out ‘worker you’ was transported into […]
Weekend Reads. Why investors embrace dividend growth.
Yes there can be an ongoing debate as to whether or not ‘dividends matter’. Certainly that’s a personal decision and if an investor makes the dividends matter, then well, they certainly DO matter because that is the investment style that the investor has embraced. If an investor chooses a dividend growth approach all things dividend […]
Using Canadian Dividend ETFs as your core Canadian holding.
As warm and cuddly and comforting as are dividends, the subject or investment approach can lead to some lively debates. Many will write (or build podcasts on the subject) that dividends simply don’t matter. On that, here’s a measured response from Mike at The Dividend Guy blog. Please have a read of Should I Go […]
Can You Build a Portfolio of Individual Stocks?
Yesterday I posted Taking a Look at Canadian Stock Pickers Who Choose Dividend Growth. By no surprise many investors who create their own stock portfolio insist on dividend paying companies and usually dividend growth. It was the advice of Benjamin Graham, Warren Buffet’s teacher, that the defensive investor (kind words to mean more unsophisticated investors) […]