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…
rednuht / Foter.com / CC BY When scanning the Canadian market for dividend growth stocks there are two common places that investors start: The S&P/TSX Canadian Dividend Aristocrats To be included in the list the company must be common stock or income trust listed on the TSX and in the S&P Canada Broad Market Index (BMI)….
JLM Photography. / Foter.com / CC BY-NC-ND No one is perfect and no one can predict the future, so that means that you are going to lose some money at some point. Diversification and knowing your risk tolerance can lessen the blow, but it’ll still happen. This is just a fact of investing. My biggest…
sandcastlematt / Beach Photos / CC BY-NC Part of a successful life involves setting goals. It’s my plan to use this blog as a way of tracking and achieving my investing and early retirement goals. Setting goals for yourself can be a difficult thing, but I find it’s best to start with the big picture…
In order to reach my early retirement goals I have to save a large portion of my income and invest it. Typically I try and save over 50% of my after-tax take home pay. The typical recommend rate is 10% if you start a relatively young age, but I want to retire early so this…
Welcome to Dividend Growth Investing & Retirement! If you’re new here, you can learn about me and why I started this blog. It’s my hope that I can help my readers to a life of financial independence, by providing Dividend Stock Analysis’ and the Canadian Dividend All-Star List. I’m still in the process of setting…
