A week ago, it was payday. But not just any ordinary payday, the big one! My year-end bonus was deposited in my bank account. The product of a long and hard year where I truly earned each dollar. Why do I do that? I’ll tell you here; it’s my little secret ;-). I’m not the kind of guy
A few weeks ago, a member of Dividend Stocks Rocks enquired about Enbridge and Transcanada. Since both companies are trading on the same symbol on both US and Canadian market and that they are at the center of the attention with the Keystone XL pipeline, I thought it worthwhile to tak
A couple of weeks ago, I listed my personal goals for 2015. It will be a very busy year as I expect to retire from my day job in 2016. But besides my personal goals, I also have to take care of my investments! Let’s take a look at how I did in 2014… 2014 Portfolio Review I’m qu
During the 2008 financial crisis, all US banks dropped like a rock. All of them? Not really, there was one bank that survived this catastrophic year and even posted a small gain of 1.31%. While the S&P 500 lost 37.6% and the worst banks such as Citigroup (C ) and Bank of America (
If I tell you that you can build an everlasting portfolio with minimum effort that has beat the Canadian S&P TSX for the past 20 years and will pay on average 4% in dividends, would you become my client? And this portfolio currently pays a 4.14% dividend yield. Fortu