How did your investments perform in 2019? Some will be surprised that it was such a good year. The S&P/TSX Composite Index returned about 22% including dividends. The bad news for mutual fund investors is that, as usual, the vast […]
What is SPIVA?
If there is one thing every investor should know about before considering the purchase of an actively managed mutual fund, it is this: the SPIVA report. SPIVA stands for “S&P Indices Versus Active” and it describes a semi-annual scorecard comparing […]
What is confirmation bias?
Building on last month’s post which addressed how we might tackle investing in a potentially “over-valued” market, I thought I would explore one of the most common cognitive biases that undermines good financial decision-making: confirmation bias. About a year after […]
Is it a good time to invest in the stock market?
There is one investing question that comes up more than any other: Is now a good time to be putting money into the stock market? The stock market has been on a nearly unprecedented 10 year bull run – how […]
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 investor who wasn’t intimidated at the start. At some point, […]
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 […]
Isn’t it great to be an individual investor? (by David Stanley)
Two days ago the S&P 500 dropped 800 points – almost 3% (the S&P/TSX Composite Index was “only” down about 2%). The next morning, I found an email in my inbox from David Stanley with this article attached. If anyone […]
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 […]
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 at IPL (Inter Pipeline Ltd). In my opinion, and that […]
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 […]