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Beating the TSX Annual Update 2022/2023 Learn More

Beating the TSX Annual Update 2022/2023

This article will be appearing in the February 2023 edition of Canadian Moneysaver MagazineSo long,…
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  • Annual updates / Beating the TSX
Year-end financial check-up Learn More

Year-end financial check-up

Almost everything we value in life requires some kind of maintenance.  A house will need…
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  • DIY Investing / Investor learning
Uncalculated risks Learn More

Uncalculated risks

There are no solutions, only trade-offs.Thomas SowellYou can only calculate risk in hindsight.  You can't…
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  • DIY Investing / Investor learning / Personal stories
The “Perpetual Portfolio”: A potential solution for aging DIY investors Learn More

The “Perpetual Portfolio”: A potential solution for aging DIY investors

Being a self-directed investor has enormous advantages: more control, less complexity, and often higher net…
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The AQN Problem Learn More

The AQN Problem

It's been a long time since I've written about a specific stock.  Truth is, I'm…
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Positioning Learn More

Positioning

Organisms can position themselves in one of two ways from an evolutionary perspective: specialize or…
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Retirees are leaving money on the table Learn More

Retirees are leaving money on the table

You’ve worked hard for your money.  You’ve accumulated wealth by being responsible with your spending…
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Get to vs. Got to Learn More

Get to vs. Got to

This story starts about a year before that photo was taken.I stumbled into my sparsely…
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How to think about bear markets Learn More

How to think about bear markets

I heard someone smarter than me say on a podcast recently, "We don't react to…
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  • DIY Investing / Investor learning / Investor psychology
Optimists, pessimists, and realists in life and investing Learn More

Optimists, pessimists, and realists in life and investing

My last post, Why I am not a Bitcoin investor, sparked a surprisingly positive response…
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Why I am not a Bitcoin investor Learn More

Why I am not a Bitcoin investor

I have been slow to get on the Bitcoin train.  OK, actually I've kept a…
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Life is like a jar of golf balls Learn More

Life is like a jar of golf balls

Here is an apocryphal story for you.  Its veracity may be questionable, but its impact…
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Husband, father, woodworker, DIY investor. I spent eleven years in post-secondary education, fifteen in a profession that was burning me out, and one year traveling around the world with my family. How? Financial independence through dividend investing.

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    The AQN Problem
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