Why We Are Stuck in Hell With Bad CDs While Good Bonds Go To Heaven
If you are looking to build a retirement portfolio or you simply have a big aversion to risk, you probably have your fair share of bad-rates-certificate-of-deposits (CD’s) or low interest bonds. Regardless if you are a US or Canadian citizens, interest rates for fixed income investments are very low. One of the only options [...]
2011 Top 10 Canadian REITs List
After discussing Canadian REITs this Monday, I thought of building the 2011 Top 10 Canadian REITs List for your viewing pleasure (and trading ideas ). As I have mentioned before I think this is the right time to buy Canadian REITs. While restructuring my portfolio, I am considering adding one or 2 Canadian [...]
My Fixed Income Portfolio Components
At the risk of sounding like a broken record, I firmly believe that the most important component to my portfolio is my asset allocation. I think it is even more important than owning dividend growth stocks! As I do regularly these days, I made a recent portfolio move in the name of asset allocation. I [...]
Bought Some More Fixed Income For My Portfolio
In my struggle to bring my fixed income asset allocation in line to my target allocation, I did some buying in May. It was not a huge transaction, but essentially it took me from only 10% fixed income to a whopping 12.4% fixed income. As I wrote about a month ago, I had been focused [...]
