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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…

Continue ReadingHow to become a DIY investor: is there a better way?
  • Post published:October 1, 2019
  • Post category:Dividend investing/Investing for beginners
  • Post comments:13 Comments

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…

Continue ReadingHow Dividend-paying Stocks Behave During A Market Crash – by David Stanley
  • Post published:September 2, 2019
  • Post category:Beating the TSX/Dividend investing
  • Post comments:5 Comments
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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…

Continue ReadingIsn’t it great to be an individual investor? (by David Stanley)
  • Post published:August 16, 2019
  • Post category:Beating the TSX/DIY Investing
  • Post comments:3 Comments

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…

Continue ReadingQ&A with Tom Connolly from www.dividendgrowth.ca
  • Post published:July 31, 2019
  • Post category:Dividend investing/Personal stories
  • Post comments:6 Comments

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…

Continue ReadingDoes PPL belong in BTSX? (July 2019 BTSX update)
  • Post published:June 29, 2019
  • Post category:Dividend investing/Uncategorized
  • Post comments:12 Comments

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…

Continue ReadingOur war with the future
  • Post published:June 22, 2019
  • Post category:DIY Investing/Investor psychology
  • Post comments:5 Comments

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…

Continue ReadingThe evolution of individual investing – by David Stanley
  • Post published:June 15, 2019
  • Post category:Beating the TSX/Dividend investing
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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…

Continue ReadingDoes IPL belong in BTSX? (June 2019 BTSX Update)
  • Post published:June 1, 2019
  • Post category:Beating the TSX
  • Post comments:13 Comments

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…

Continue ReadingInvesting with Dividend Funds (by David Stanley)
  • Post published:May 11, 2019
  • Post category:Dividend investing/DIY Investing/Uncategorized
  • Post comments:5 Comments

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…

Continue ReadingThe complete TSX 60 stock list by dividend yield
  • Post published:May 2, 2019
  • Post category:Dividend investing
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Matt

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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