“Dividends may not be the only path for an individual investor’s success, but if there’s a better one, I have yet to find it” Josh Peters – The Ultimate Dividend Playbook: Income, Insight and Independence for Today’s Investor Each month I update readers of all the dividend increases in the Canadian Dividend All-Star List (Canadian…
“Dividends may not be the only path for an individual investor’s success, but if there’s a better one, I have yet to find it” Josh Peters – The Ultimate Dividend Playbook: Income, Insight and Independence for Today’s Investor Each month I update readers of all the dividend increases in the Canadian Dividend All-Star List (Canadian…
“Dividends may not be the only path for an individual investor’s success, but if there’s a better one, I have yet to find it” Josh Peters – The Ultimate Dividend Playbook: Income, Insight and Independence for Today’s Investor Each month I update readers of all the dividend increases in the Canadian Dividend All-Star List along…
The investment landscape can be broken down into 11 different sectors: Consumer Discretionary, Consumer Staples (Also known as Consumer Defensive), Energy, Financials, Health Care, Industrials, Information Technology, Materials, Real Estate, Telecommunication Services, and Utilities Wouldn’t it be nice to know which of these sectors offer the best mix of dividend growth and a long history…
Estimated reading time: 11 minutes. Yes, this is a long article, but it is a critical read if you want to become a successful long-term investor. “The single greatest edge an investor can have is a long-term orientation.” Seth Klarman The number one reason to be a dividend growth investor is that it is a strategy…
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With only 1% of my portfolio in the consumer staples (AKA consumer defensive) sector through some broad market index ETFs, I’ve been on the hunt for some individual stocks to add. Ideally, I’d like consumer staple stocks to make up about 15-20% of the portfolio. As you can see I’ve got some work to do,…
Yeah I know, it’s been a while… In fact over a year! I just wanted to write a post to say that I’m back and to update you on what I’ve been doing for the past year (Personal Stuff & my Investment Activity). With work and the birth of my son, I was pretty busy…
I hope everyone is enjoying the Holidays so far. I’ve got about a week off from work and I’m really looking forward to some relaxing time with the family over the Holidays. On the theme of relaxing I thought I would write a cop-out article on my most popular posts in 2016 ;). This is…
My investing plan involves buying and hopefully holding great dividend growth companies for a long period of time while collecting the growing stream of dividends that will eventually help cover retirement costs and inflation. For this strategy to work I need companies to be able to survive and thrive over the very long term. This…
The Canadian Dividend All-Star List has been updated for September 30th. The list contains Canadian companies that have increased their recorded dividends for five or more calendar years in a row. The list also contains an “Others” tab to include some other companies that have a dividend streak of less than 5 years. The list…
