winterofdiscontent / Foter.com / CC BY-NC-SA If you asked my girlfriend, she’d probably say that I’m cheap. To be fair we first met in university when I was spending the most money of my life, so she was first introduced to a spending version of myself. It was my first time living on my own,…
I’m excited to announce that I have joined the Yakezie Challenge. The Yakezie Challenge is a 6 month challenge for financial bloggers to reach an Alexa ranking (Ranking of the popularity of websites) of 200,000 or higher. I’m looking forward to this challenge for a number of reasons: It’ll help me setup a great network…
West Midlands Police / Car Photos / CC BY-SA So, should you have an emergency fund? Yes! I would say that most people agree that you should have an emergency fund, but it’s one of those things that keeps getting put on the back burner. For me it took about 2-3 years from the time…
seanmcgrath / People Photos / CC BY If you look at my retirement goals you’ll see that I want to have a growing stream of dividend income to support me in retirement. In order to meet my goals I’m looking for a dividend growth rate (DGR) of 8%. This is an ambitious rate in my…
FutUndBeidl / Foter.com / CC BY One thing that is often overlooked when buying shares is having an exit strategy. Investors will spend a lot of time determining which stock to purchase and for what price, but they don’t think about selling until much later on. When you buy shares it is important to have…
My Most Recent Portfolio Addition Whenever I buy or sell shares I will update my blog with the details. I’m doing this primarily for two reasons. First, I want readers to be able to see the types of stocks I’m purchasing, and how I use a dividend growth strategy. Second, I’m hoping that readers will…
Each month I total up the dividends paid to me in the month as a way to track my progress towards financial freedom. The end goal is to have my dividends paid cover my expenses. This is a long term goal, so I have a lot of years to go, but I find it encouraging…
Jason W Lacey / Art Photos / CC BY-NC-ND I’d originally planned to review one of the companies on the Canadian Dividend All-Stars List (a list of Canadian companies that have increased their dividend for five or more consecutive years), but someone asked me about Johnson & Johnson (JNJ), so I decided to start with…
I’ve now gone through and made some notes on what all the column headers mean in the Canadian Dividend All-Star List. This information will be included in the Notes tab of the All-Star List download at the end of the month. Here’s the information: Seq The ranking of companies based on the length of their…
I released my first official Canadian Dividend All-Star List on February 28th. After uploading the file, Atlantic Power announced it would be cutting it’s dividend. How’s that for bad timing. The company cut it’s dividend by 65%. The monthly dividend has been reduced from $0.0958 to $0.033. Prior to the cut Atlantic Power had increased…
