Dividend Investing – Asset Allocation
Asset allocation is a tool that investors can use to help reduce the risk in their portfolio. The thinking is that, as not all investment types move in the same direction at the same time, you can “cover your bets” by investing in a few different investment types to take advantage of the various moves [...]
Investing – Watch Out for the Marketing
In Canada, we are in the “off-season” for advertisements from investment companies selling us their investment options. However, no matter when the advertisements are on, investors need to be very careful not to get swayed by the aggressive advertising tactics of these companies. I came across a list of things that investors should keep in [...]
Dividend Portfolio & Personal Finance Update
I updated my Microsoft Money file today, as I usually do once or twice a week and my portfolio has done well. The last time I updated the information on this blog was August 22nd. At that time my portfolio was valued at $33,996. Today I am showing a value of $34,489 – an increase [...]
My Dumbest Investment
Any investor, if they have been investing long enough, has made at least one dumb investment. I have made a few, that is for sure. The one that sticks out in my mine is when I purchased a small forestry micro-cap stock out of Vancouver that I heard a stock analyst talk about on a [...]
Dividend Investing – My No Mutual Fund Rule
First off, a big thank you to Chad at “Twenty Something Finance” and farhan for their comments in relation to the post on my investing principles. To provide some background to those of you who did not read the comments, their questions were concerning my rule that I avoid mutual funds in my portfolio. Farhan [...]
When to Sell a Dividend Paying Investment
I hate to sell stocks that I own. Why? One of two reasons: 1. I probably screwed up in my analysis of the company and made a dumb decision to buy in the first place;or2. Something has happened to the company that is totally beyond my control and I am powerless (e.g. the company has [...]
My Investing Principles
The Path of Least ResistanceI can be a pretty lazy guy. I am also deadly serious about my money. My goal is to have $300,000 or better in dividend paying investments by the time I am 40 years old. How do I plan to do this? By following these investing principles: – KISS: Yes that’s [...]
When Is a Yield Too High?
Reaching for yield is very tempting. The cash flow that I can receive as a result of a good yield is very substantial. However, there are a few things that I try to keep in mind when choosing a high-yielding stock: 1. Has the yield shot up in the past month or so or has [...]
