One Guy’s Journey to Passive Income Through Dividend Investing

Although the financial marketers would like us to beleive that managing money is a very complex task that only highly-skilled investment professionals and mutual fund managers can succeed at, investing is not that complicated. Sure it takes some planning and education to understand the process and best-practices, but it is nowhere near rocket science. However, [...]

If you are a do-it-yourself investor who buys individual stocks (i.e. dividend stocks), as many of my readers are, then we are slaves to our investment returns. But how do we know how we are performing. If we earned 12% last year, that may seem like a pretty good return. However, if the overall market [...]

Since we are at about the half-way point through 2007, I thought it would be a good time to reflect on how my overall portfolio is doing. As a reminder, and a bit of an update, my portfolio consists of the following “accounts”. I look at my entire portfolio as a whole but in Microsoft [...]

It is days like today when the market has dropped a whopping 416 points when the effects of dividends really comes into effect. The most telling thing about today is that if you look at the Dow winners and losers, there was not one winner – that is to say there was not one stock [...]

It is that time of year where all investors need to take stock of how they did in their portfolios to decide if they achieved the results they were after. My first goal is to beat the S&P/TSX Composite Index on an annual basis. For those of you in the U.S., the TSX is the [...]