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Read more about the article How did BTSX perform in 2019?

How did BTSX perform in 2019?

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…

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  • Post published:January 17, 2020
  • Post category:Beating the TSX
  • Post comments:38 Comments

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…

Continue ReadingWhat is SPIVA?
  • Post published:January 1, 2020
  • Post category:Investing for beginners/Investor psychology
  • Post comments:16 Comments

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…

Continue ReadingWhat is confirmation bias?
  • Post published:December 4, 2019
  • Post category:Investor psychology
  • Post comments:5 Comments
Read more about the article Is it a good time to invest in the stock market?

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…

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  • Post published:November 1, 2019
  • Post category:Investor psychology
  • Post comments:10 Comments

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…

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  • 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
Read more about the article Isn’t it great to be an individual investor? (by David Stanley)

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…

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  • 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
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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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