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 […]
Weekend Reads: What investors do wrong edition.
Let’s face it we all make mistakes. We’ve made them in the past and we’ll likely make them in the future. We’re human. On Seeking Alpha in of 2013 I bragged that I would never make another investment mistake. I probably made a few in the last several years, but most of minor concern. My […]
How to place buy and sell orders for your ETFs.
This week I helped a friend invest their entire RRSP portfolio at Questrade. It was a significant sum given that he had been adding to this portfolio for decades. He is now comfortably invested in VBAL, that one ticket portfolio from Vanguard. He had been paying some very high mutual fund fees and was receiving […]
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 […]