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December 2018 Portfolio Update

First of all, Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, and all the best in the New Year to each of you. It has once again been a pleasure to share the year with all of you and to interact. While personal finance is the basis around which we converse, it...
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November 2018 Portfolio Update – The AbbVie Buy

As my final “slow month” of the year, November nevertheless brought with it some action. I managed to deploy capital on two occasions, both in relatively high yielding companies with solid growth track records. CAD Dividends Dividend Summary I earned $39.82 in dividends from three businesses through November....
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Monthly Dividends Tracking

I began investing in earnest in early 2009. Prior to that I didn’t have a real strategy aside from a general proclivity toward saving money while not spending frivolously. I had begun prior to 2009, however, to research what would eventually blossom into the dividend growth investing (DGI)...
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October 2018 Portfolio Update

As we move into the final quarter of the year, the portfolio’s momentum remains strong. It’s always a great feeling when I have some dividend increases, a market purchase, and a new all-time high income total to report on. CAD Dividends Dividend Summary I once more earned a...
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Weekend Reading #3

One of the greatest assets we have as investors is one another. Sharing information and learning from the collective wisdom of the entire community is how we can gain the best leverage to succeed in life. My own growth trajectory was heavily influenced not just by the physical...
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Five Boxing Principles That Made Me a Better Investor

Boxing Gloves
I grew up in a very male-dominant household. My father is self-employed and has been from a young age, having made his own way with an asphalt paving business. The only movies I ever remember him watching were morally driven, real-justice-wins-in-the-end sorts. The kind with guys like Clint...
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Perspective

Life is a balancing act between extremes. We learn from the time we’re children the differences between cold and hot, low and high, and so on. This is a necessary step in our education as it would otherwise be impossible to recognize or define tepid or middle without...
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Q3 2018 Dividend Report

It has never been a better time to be a dividend growth investor. With the online tools we now have to monitor our investments and stay abreast of current events with our companies, compounding has never been easier. I made a grand total of five purchases of dividend...
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September 2018 Portfolio Update

The autumnal period is upon us; the trees make their seasonal adjustment with their leaves changing colours. This is one of my favourite periods, as the heat dies out and we get to enjoy a period between the extremes before the snow flies. I didn’t make any stock...
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