One Guy's Journey to Passive Income Through Dividend Investing

I was recently surfin’ some investing message boards and came across a great summary of the investment process. More specifically, it was a very simple description of the two kinds of mistakes an investor can make. It really hit home with me. When you filter the investment process down to its most basic level, there [...]

I am in a bit of a quandary right now. I currently have about $2800 (CDN) sitting in an RRSP (Tax deferred account that I am completely unmotivated to invest. There is just nothing that excites me enough right now to invest my cold hard cash into. Most of my current holdings are in the [...]

Today, my sister-in-law asked me to recommend a couple of investing books that would be a good start for her. Her prime objective she told me was to ensure that she did not get ripped off by high mutual fund fees and taken advantage of by a broker who sells investment products based on the [...]

The Dividend Discount Model is a stock valuation tool that is supposed to provide an investor with a quick way to evaluate if a stock is overvalued or not. Basically, it states that the value of a stock is all of its future cash flows (dividends) discounted by some rate of return that is usually [...]

After coming through a pretty strong end of the year in 2006 in the markets, it can be real jarring for investors when we have had a week like we just did, especially in Canada. The S&P/TSX Composite in Canada had an especially brutal week where the index dropped 3.3% – and that was on [...]

Every month I purchase shares of the company I work for as part of our overall benefit plan. This has been a great benefit as the money goes into the taxable account that I opened through the bank that the company uses for all our employee investment account. I never really see the money until [...]