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 […]
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 […]
Should investors avoid the cyclical crap in Canada?
As an investment option the Canadian stock market can take a lot of heat. Canada is only 3% of the world economy. The Canadian stock market is concentrated in financials, energy and materials. Should Canadian investors avoid those laggard energy and materials stocks? While the Canadian banks and insurance companies have been terrific investments, the […]
My investment moves on Weekend Reads.
US and Canadian stock markets have hit new highs. What is an investor to do? While choppy and volatile markets can cause investor paralysis, so can robust markets. My moves? I’ve started to trim some of our US stocks. I’ve added some US bonds to help protect our US stock assets. It seems that investors […]
The Dividend Aristocrats in Canada and the US.
The Dividend Aristocrats may form the bedrock of dividend growth investing in the US. Many investors trust the divining rod of a meaningful dividend growth history. It takes an incredibly successful company to make its way into the venerable S&P 500 index. For a company to then be able to increase its dividend every year […]
Weekend Reads: Lower prices are good for the portfolio.
Apparently we’ve had more stock market volatility over the last few weeks. I don’t really pay much attention to markets but I did find some alarmist headlines and tweets. It does not take much to get investors excited or nervous. And certainly, over the last couple of weeks, I had many more good reasons to […]