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Read more about the article How to use BTSX in real life

How to use BTSX in real life

Having just posted our annual Beating the TSX update, I'm receiving lots of good questions about how to put the Beating the TSX method into action.  I hope this updated…

Continue ReadingHow to use BTSX in real life
  • Post published:January 9, 2022
  • Post category:Beating the TSX/Dividend investing/DIY Investing
  • Post comments:38 Comments
Read more about the article Using BTSX to build your portfolio: a step by step guide

Using BTSX to build your portfolio: a step by step guide

Dividend investing, and Beating the TSX in particular, have an excellent long term record of providing investors with returns superior to the index. With a little interest and discipline, DIY…

Continue ReadingUsing BTSX to build your portfolio: a step by step guide
  • Post published:March 1, 2021
  • Post category:Beating the TSX/Dividend investing/DIY Investing/Investing for beginners
  • Post comments:19 Comments
Read more about the article Do bonds belong in my portfolio?

Do bonds belong in my portfolio?

For decades, professionals have constructed "balanced" portfolios using the 60/40 stock/bond ratio as a template. Other variations pushed a bond allocation equal to the investor's age, or other such rules…

Continue ReadingDo bonds belong in my portfolio?
  • Post published:November 1, 2020
  • Post category:Dividend investing/DIY Investing/Investing for beginners
  • Post comments:3 Comments

BPY.UN: does Brookfield Property Partners belong in your portfolio?

I am no stock analyst, I just play one on this blog (from time to time). With a recent shake-up of the TSX 60 index, Encana (ECA) is out and…

Continue ReadingBPY.UN: does Brookfield Property Partners belong in your portfolio?
  • Post published:February 5, 2020
  • Post category:DIY Investing
  • Post comments:25 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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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…

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  • 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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The case for dividends – by David Stanley

Many of you will already know David Stanley as the original author of the Beating the TSX series in the Canadian Moneysaver.  Since agreeing to take on that role myself,…

Continue ReadingThe case for dividends – by David Stanley
  • Post published:April 19, 2019
  • Post category:Beating the TSX/Dividend investing/Uncategorized
  • Post comments:12 Comments

Planning vs reacting

There is an axiom in medicine:  don't do a test unless it will change your management.  It's tempting to get information just for the sake of having more information, especially…

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  • Post published:March 31, 2019
  • Post category:DIY Investing/Investor psychology
  • Post comments:21 Comments

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About Me

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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