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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…