Advice is loud when the person giving it has something to gain – and the financial services industry has a lot to gain by convincing you that the best place for your money is in their hands. To be fair, […]
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Why is the stock market crashing?
Two days ago the stock market officially entered bear market territory, coming down 20% from its high just a few weeks ago. Yesterday the TSX dropped another 12% – the largest one day drop in its history. The beating investors […]
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 appreciate his contribution of content for this site but, rest […]
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 “Connolly Report” (retired last year), creator of the dividendgrowth.ca website […]
Our war with the future
Once upon a long long time ago, a famous military general was returning from war. He couldn’t wait to get home to his family and his palace, but there were numerous challenges along the way and it took him ten […]
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 the good old days Acting upon usually unsolicited advice from […]
Does IPL belong in BTSX? (June 2019 BTSX Update)
Inter Pipeline Ltd. (IPL) and Pembina Pipeline Corp (PPL) both sport dividend yields that place them in the top ten of the TSX 60 index. Understandably, I am frequently asked why they are not included in the BTSX portfolio. The […]
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 his thoughts on investing with dividend funds: mutual funds vs. […]
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 portfolio. Now you can find it here any time. […]
BTSX update May 2019: My mistake(s)
The punchline for May: No dividend cuts No dividend raises Manulife (MFC) drops from the list due to price accumulation (and Shaw [SJR.B] is back in) *Note: we do not recommend that monthly changes in the portfolio should trigger any […]