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Following up on last week’s article, here’s my last purchase for my children’s future tuition fee portfolio. In January, I invested $10,775 in four companies: 3M Co (MMM) Emera (EMA.TO) Royal Bank (RY.TO) Apple (AAPL) Yup, I couldn’t resist buying more AAPL in yet another accoun

  Things move so fast recently that I completely forgot to update you on my most recent purchases! In January, I bought shares of 4 different dividend growth companies. I already mentioned my purchases of MMM and EMA.TO. This means I have two more companies to tell you about! Dur

After long procrastination, I’ve finally decided to manage my kids tuition investment account (called an RESP in Canada). I have roughly $10,000 saved in this account and it was invested in mutual funds until recently. Over the past three years, I’ve crushed the fund managers performa

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

  About 6 months ago, I wrote about how stock splits are more a marketing strategy than anything else. In fact, the real stock value doesn’t change and the individual investor who cares about buying a stock at $30 instead of $90 after a split 1:3 won’t affect much the market. Aft