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?’ […]
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 […]
Canadian High Dividend Yield. Vanguard VDY vs iShares XEI.
Canadians love their big juicy dividends. And for those who do seek income they’ve been forced into this search for yield thanks to the low bond yield environment. I am guilty as charged. I personally hold several Canadian wide moat dividend stocks. For my wife’s main RRSP account we hold Vanguard’s High Dividend Yield Index […]
Putting an end to the dividend debate, on Weekend Reads.
This just in; big juicy Canadian dividends beat the market . That was the finding revealed in this Norman Rothery article in the Globe and Mail. I am sorry dividend deniers, it’s not good news. Big Canadian Dividend payers beat the market by some 3.8%, on average per year. From that Globe article … And […]
Living off of the dividends and that 4% rule.
Dividends are so popular. That’s an understatement. Government agencies have forced that upon us. We live in a low yield environment. Bonds come up way short in the task of delivering safer income for retirees. Naturally, investors turn to dividends. Can we live off of the dividend income? The yield on iShares Core Universe Bond […]