Your Take: As Investors, What Annoys You The Most?
I’m asking you this question today because I’m annoyed by a lot of things that happen in the financial world. In my quest to improve my investing strategy and knowledge, I often find that we are bogged down by messy information and it becomes hard to find our way around it. So let me [...]
18 Stock Picks for 2012 Using My Crystal Ball
Back in February 2011, I posted an article about 9 dividend stocks that would do well in 2011. Since I like to be held accountable, I thought of coming back to those stock picks to see how they performed (just to validate my crystal ball before I use it again for 2012!). I calculated [...]
TSX Dividend Yield And Ex-Dividend Date
We are starting the month of February with our traditional TSX 60 Dividend Yield and Ex-Dividend Date publication. A few notes about the TSX60 and its dividends Only 11 stocks from the TSX60 made the cut to my Best Canadian Stocks for Only 31 stocks from the TSX60 pay higher than [...]
Dividend Bubble? Think Again!
I’m sure you have heard of the Wall Street Journal claiming that the Dividend Bubble is going to burst soon. If you haven’t, trust me, you are not missing much! The rationale behind a growing dividend bubble is that most investors are leaving the equity market for bonds while the most courageous are putting [...]
Genivar GNV Stock Analysis
For the first dividend stock analysis of the year (besides my 29 Dividend Stocks for 2012 eBook), I decided to take a look at a beaten up stock that could definitely become a rising star in the upcoming years. For a fact, GNV dropped by 14% in 2011. Was it justified or was Genivar [...]
4 Top Canadian REITs For 2012
Strong from my series on Canadian REITs in 2011, I’m going back this year with 4 top picks on the best Canadian REITs for 2012. I think that it’s important that you don’t get blinded by the attractive yields of REITs and decide to invest all your money in them. On the other hand, [...]
Dividend Stock Power Ranking
You know that since I’ve bought this blog almost 2 years ago, I never thought I would like writing about dividend investing so much? To be honest, I used to write more creative stuff over on my main blog, The Financial Blogger. At first, I felt the need to present something more professional and “straight”. [...]
If You Want to Know Where the Stock Market is Heading, Read the Following
Most articles I read in 2011 were talking about a possible bear market and how volatility will make investors go crazy. At least, they were right about one thing; volatility is making people crazy . However, these are articles are terribly wrong when they predict the apocalypse. I know that catastrophe sells more [...]
