David Stanley, a godfather of dividend investing in Canada and the man who brought us the uber-successful BTSX, wrote a post about about this very question:
Dividend investing isn’t the only way to invest, but it has many advantages for the DIY investor.
Top 10 reasons a dividend-based strategy is ideal for DIY investors:
"Retirement Income For Life" by Frederick Vettese : Book Review and Summary
I read a lot and I write a lot but, weirdly, I’ve never written about…
Retirement Buckets: Grow your wealth and safeguard your income
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10 Tips for your BTSX Portfolio
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Beating the TSX Annual Update 2022/2023
This article will be appearing in the February 2023 edition of Canadian Moneysaver MagazineSo long,…
Year-end financial check-up
Almost everything we value in life requires some kind of maintenance. A house will need…
Uncalculated risks
There are no solutions, only trade-offs.Thomas SowellYou can only calculate risk in hindsight. You can't…
The “Perpetual Portfolio”: A potential solution for aging DIY investors
Being a self-directed investor has enormous advantages: more control, less complexity, and often higher net…
The AQN Problem
It's been a long time since I've written about a specific stock. Truth is, I'm…
Positioning
Organisms can position themselves in one of two ways from an evolutionary perspective: specialize or…
Retirees are leaving money on the table
You’ve worked hard for your money. You’ve accumulated wealth by being responsible with your spending…
Get to vs. Got to
This story starts about a year before that photo was taken.I stumbled into my sparsely…
How to think about bear markets
I heard someone smarter than me say on a podcast recently, "We don't react to…
Optimists, pessimists, and realists in life and investing
My last post, Why I am not a Bitcoin investor, sparked a surprisingly positive response…
Why I am not a Bitcoin investor
I have been slow to get on the Bitcoin train. OK, actually I've kept a…
Life is like a jar of golf balls
Here is an apocryphal story for you. Its veracity may be questionable, but its impact…
BTSX 2022 mid-year update: a light in the dark
Confidence is one of biggest challenges in investing. Too little and you're paralyzed, impressionable, and…
A cold hard look at buying a house
The dream of home ownership is alive and well. It's such a vibrant dream, in fact, that it can take over common sense and make otherwise intelligent people do very dumb things.
Comparing CPP at 60 vs. 65 vs. 70 . . . The results might surprise you
There are some questions that are difficult for DIY investors to answer themselves. One that…
