How to become a DIY investor: is there a better way?
Managing our own investments does not have to be complicated. Most of the time a simple strategy will outperform a more complicated one. But I haven't met a single DIY…
These are posts about DIY investing: why it’s great, why it’s challenging, and how you can do it without getting burned. On this site we focus on dividend investing, but the information is usually applicable to other methods.
How Dividend-paying Stocks Behave During A Market Crash – by David Stanley
To accompany our monthly BTSX portfolio update, we have another post by the father of Beating the TSX, David Stanley. Personally, I am in the middle of moving, so I…
Q&A with Tom Connolly from www.dividendgrowth.ca
There is one name that stands out from all the rest in any discussion of DIY dividend investing in Canada, and that is Tom Connolly. Author of the long-running printed…
Does PPL belong in BTSX? (July 2019 BTSX update)
For last month's BTSX update I started to address the question of whether previous income trusts should be included in our Beating the TSX portfolio by taking a closer look…
The evolution of individual investing – by David Stanley
In Canada, the mechanisms of individual investing have changed a great deal since I bought my first shares in 1995. Here is the way it used to go: Back in…
Investing with Dividend Funds (by David Stanley)
Here's another guest post by the original Beating the TSX author, David Stanley. In his last post, he laid out the case for dividend investing in general. Here he offers…
The complete TSX 60 stock list by dividend yield
Sometimes the simplest information is the hardest to find. Investors used to have to wait until the annual Beating the TSX update in The Canadian MoneySaver to have access to…
The case for dividends – by David Stanley
Many of you will already know David Stanley as the original author of the Beating the TSX series in the Canadian Moneysaver. Since agreeing to take on that role myself,…