There can be periods of high-growth, low-growth and despite the recency bias with some investors with the S&P 500: no-growth.

Picking up where I left off a few weeks ago, I believe Registered Retirement Income Fund (RRIF) rules need a serious overhaul sooner than later. As established readers, including existing retirees and ...

For new and established readers, this is our monthly update to share how we are progressing with our hybrid portfolio – a structure that was established approaching 15 years ago as follows: We invest ...

September 2024 Dividend Income Update Well hello! I hope you have enjoyed your summer… Might as well get right into this – near the start of a new month! 🙂 For new and established readers, this is ...

Bonds – there are lots of ways to own bonds; most DIY investors can easily own bonds via a bond ETF (Exchange Traded Fund). In doing so, you can own bond durations that are short, long and anything in ...

The big news of late in mortgage-and-home-buying-land is that our Federal Government has introduced 30-year amortization periods for all first-time homebuyers and all buyers of new builds, regardless ...

Welcome to my Dividends page. This blog is about saving and investing my way beyond a $1 million investment portfolio using dividend paying stocks to help fund part our semi-retirement plan. When a ...

What is Beat the TSX (BTSX)? This blog is about saving and investing my way beyond a $1 million investment portfolio using some Canadian stocks that pay dividends and deliver capital appreciation to ...

Some time ago…yours truly wrote a controversial post about the intent to live off dividends and distributions from our portfolio. Well, after years of DIY stock and ETF investing – my thinking has not ...