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I shouldn’t have waited…

bmo, buying stocks, buying shares, shouldn't have waited

CF / October 28th, 2013 / 14 Comments

As many readers might recall, Brian and I split our retirement savings between our RRSPs and our Tax Free Savings Account. In my TFSA, I hold exclusively dividend paying stocks which I hope will one day be the basis of my early retirement income. Right now, I have BMO, SLF, RSI and REI.UN in my portfolio. For a while, I had been holding strong at 81 shares of BMO, which got me a quarterly dividend...

Posted in: Money Tagged with: bmo dividend, dividend investing, Dividend Reinvestment, DRIP, early retirement, early retirement planning

Should I buy Canadian Oil Sands for my TFSA?

CF / September 11th, 2013 / No Comments

I’ve started getting itchy to make a new purchase for my TFSA again. I have a bit of cash sitting in my Questrade account, and damn it… it’s not making me money! Right now, my TFSA holdings consist of: BMO.TO – 57% RSI.TO – 15% SLF.TO – 28% BMO and Sunlife are both very high right now, which makes me reluctant to add more shares. Rogers Sugar is basically flat and I have...

Posted in: Money Tagged with: canadian oil, canadian oil sands, canadian stocks, encana corporation, investing in stocks, natural gas stocks, oil sands, stock market, TFSA, Toronto stock exchange

Dollar Value Averaging – Where have you been all my life?

Dollar Value Averaging, stock market, investment portfolio

Brian / August 21st, 2013 / 13 Comments

Last weekend, I was out playing some racquetball with Freedom Thirty Five Blog and Modest Money. Jeremy has been raving about Jason Kelly’s book, The Neatest Little Guide to Stock Market Investing, for a few months now (check out his review). He brought me a copy to read, and in record pace (for me, at least) I’ve managed to read almost the entire book in a single week. It helped that I...

Posted in: Money Tagged with: dollar cost averaging, dollar value averaging, ETF's, how to use value averaging, investing, iShares MSCI EAFE ETF, Jason Kelly, The Neatest LIttle Guide to Stock Market Investing, US Total Market CAD ETF, Vanguard ETFs, what etf to use with value averaging

Investment update: 2013

Investment update, stock exchange, investments, investment activities

Brian / August 5th, 2013 / 11 Comments

It’s been awhile since we provided an update on our investment plans but you can check out our 2011 investment update as a reference from where we’ve come from! Since then, we’ve added another property to our real estate portfolio and are in the process of moving all our RRSP and TFSA investments to an online brokerage. we continue to be successful landlords and are working towards...

Posted in: Money Tagged with: BMO, ETF's, investing, low cost investing, Questrade, RRSP, RRSP vs. TFSA, TFSA, transfer rrsp