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Sun, 06 Jan 2008 15:14:23 +0000

[...] in line with respect to my fixed income investments. I introduced this briefly in my most recent portfolio review. I have drastically bumped up my fixed income target allocation in my portfolio and now need to [...]

By: Rob Madrid

Rob Madrid — Tue, 01 Jan 2008 19:32:46 +0000

If your main focus is on dividends shouldn’t you be less concerned about volitiality? Also rather suprisingly you have very few income trusts. I’m going to be a more regular reader and commentator as my Wife and I are reaching the point where we have alot more money to put into investments. Biggest issue we face is we don’t live in Canada so I’m not quite sure how to handle the exchange rate thingy. Buying CDN dollars is great when you being paid in euros but will suck when the reverse is true.

By: MM

MM — Tue, 01 Jan 2008 02:12:07 +0000

Same as you, I like picking individual stocks, but I’m trying to keep 65% of my money on mutual funds and ETFs.

BTW, you might want to take a look at this article … maybe we all confine ourselves to the “traditional” asset classes:

http://www.smartmoney.com/mag/index.cfm?story=september2007-league

By: Adeem Zafar

Adeem Zafar — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 19:11:38 +0000

I noticed that you hold most of your dividend stocks in RRSP accounts. Wouldn’t it make more tax sense to hold outside an RRSP to take advantage of the dividend tax credit?

By: Paul

Paul — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 02:58:51 +0000

For those of us who went into bank stocks “too soon,” we have paid the price, but I continue to remain confident of the strength of the franchises for the likes of BAC, C and RBS, although I’m heavier in preferreds than common stock. But I think we can build dividend portfolios with individual stocks, across a broad spectrum of sectors, albeit at generally lower dividend yields.