It feels like just yesterday that I laid out my Five Year Plan for achieving what I deemed “Semi-Financial Freedom”. At the time I had a general idea of the direction I wanted to go with my investments but felt I lacked structure. As a result, I wasn’t...
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January 2, 2019 Get Rich Brothers
Five Year Plan, Investing
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I once more managed to purchase investments on five occasions in a single quarter. I’ve really picked up my socks in terms of putting capital to work. The beautiful thing about the dividend growth investing strategy is that purchases made in one quarter begin yielding results so quickly...
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January 2, 2019 Get Rich Brothers
Dividend Updates, Investing
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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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December 31, 2018 Get Rich Brothers
Dividend Updates, Investing
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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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December 1, 2018 Get Rich Brothers
Dividend Updates, Investing
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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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November 25, 2018 Get Rich Brothers
Dividend Updates, Investing
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My favourite aspect of being an investor is that it forces a person to look beyond their own front door to assess both macro and micro events across the globe. On the macro level, it becomes necessary to keep an eye on emerging technologies which may reshape the...
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November 10, 2018 Get Rich Brothers
General, Investing
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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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November 4, 2018 Get Rich Brothers
Dividend Updates, Investing
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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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November 4, 2018 Get Rich Brothers
Weekend Reading
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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 with guys like Clint Eastwood and...
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October 24, 2018 Get Rich Brothers
Philosophy
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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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October 16, 2018 Get Rich Brothers
Philosophy
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