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A Jungle Reader May Be Scampering To The Globe And Mail!
2008-01-19 06:23:00 The current market tailspin probably doesn’t make you very rich, but at least you can be famous. Gavin Adamson, a personal finance columnist for The Globe and Mail , is looking for a DoItYouself investor for his upcoming article. The only prerequisite is that the investor must have an online RRSP account and makes ... More About: Reader , Jungle , The Globe and Mail
Top 5 Reasons Why Dividend Investing Over ETF
2008-01-17 10:40:00 All right, that’s it! Those ETF bullies have tormented us dividend stock pickers long enough. I’m retaliating. My headgear is on. My gloves are strapped. Give me your best shot. 1. Less MER - In fact, buy-and-hold dividend investors pay no MER at all. Regrettably, iShares CDN LargeCap 60 ... More About: Taxes , Investing , Dividends , Reasons , Dividend
Financial Forum Coming To Vancouver
2008-01-16 09:28:00 Being an author of a personal financial blog, isn’t it embarrassing that I’ve never heard of The Financial Forum & Wealth Management Expo? According to their website: The Financial Forum & Wealth Management Expo delivers Canada’s premier financial event where investors, advisors and exhibitors meet to exchange ideas, and benefit from a robust program of ... More About: Vancouver
Skip Cayman Island. Hop On A Plane to BC instead.
2008-01-10 07:49:00 Psst! Did you know a British Columbian couple can earn as much as $99,200 in dividends and not pony up a dime for income tax? Legally? BC is truly Canada’s most exhilarating province where the government begs you to splurge on mountain hiking, skiing, fishing, sailing, golfing and urban living, at least ... More About: Taxes , Island , Plane , Cayman
My One New Year?s Resolution For 2008
2008-01-08 10:00:00 It seems everyone is busy writing down his/her New Year ’s resolutions these days. This is a fabulous idea, and I’m not about to get left out of this party. I’m going to succumb to this boisterous bandwagon, only because publicizing one’s goals and signing them with blood is an effective way to hold ... More About: 2008 , Resolution
Picking Up Hard Real Estate The Soft Way
2007-12-28 09:26:00 My parents called the other day reminding me to cut back on dividend investing and start securing a house for our future. A house is a hard asset that always goes up, they reasoned, but stocks are just pieces of paper which can vapourize into thin air. Predictably after the call, I was ... More About: Estate , Real Estate , Investing , Hard , Soft
Dividend Hikes Twinkling Brighter Than Salary Increases
2007-12-24 07:01:00 It’s true. The rumour is resonating well in the office. According to our supervisor during a departmental meeting, management has reserved the necessary budget to increase salaries next year. Word on the street is for an average hike of 5% - not bad considering the Core CPI is resting at 2.2% this ... More About: Salary , Dividend
How Mike Left The Corporate Rat Race
2007-12-07 09:10:00 I have a confession to make. I’m a pretty nosey fellow. If you’re an over-achiever flourishing in an unforgiving world, you better watch out. Financial Jungle just might drag you into an interview, grilling you on all your financial philosophies. Yesterday, I had the pleasure to meet Mike through a mutual ... More About: General , Corporate , Race , Left
Switch On The Consumers? Waterheater Tab
2007-11-26 19:21:00 You have to be a Vulcan to remain unrattled by the November blizzard that knocked the TSX index off by nearly 8%. All of a sudden, the market has become pessimistic, and rightfully so as many indicators are foreseeing a recession looming. It will suck if a recession storms in uninvited. After ... More About: Switch , Consumers , The Con , Witch
Portfolio Update: Move Over, National Bank. Say Hello To TD.
2007-11-20 23:28:00 It’s a sad day yesterday as I eliminated my National Bank position after holding the stock for 21 months. Of course, it’s also one of the very first four stocks I purchased when I began my dividend-investing foray (the others were Power Financial, Bank of Nova Scotia and Saputo). While the sentimental value ... More About: Portfolio , Investing , Update , Move
Dividend Increase: Devoted Friend In A Stormy Market
2007-11-15 08:57:00 While feeling a little helpless during the recent market tailspin, it?s comforting to know that we can still count on many stocks to raise their dividends, as they always have been. My second anniversary as a dividend investor is coming up in Feburary, but boy, so far the reality is panning out just as ... More About: Market , Friend , Stormy , Dividend
Hydroelectric Power Stations For Zero Down And No Monthly Payments
2007-11-13 08:02:00 Is it possible to buy an income trust for no money down and still own it free and clear in less than 7.5 years? While browsing the Standard & Poors and DBRS rating pages looking for income trusts with strong stability ratings, I came across the power utility trust, Boralex Power Income Fund, which is rated ... More About: Investing , Month , Mont
Jump Start Your Portfolio With These 10 Dividend Stocks
2007-11-07 08:20:00 Drooling over living off passive incomes one day? Before plunging butt first into the sea of dividend-paying stocks, you must perform your due diligence. Get your hands on every conceivable dividend investing literatures: Dividend Growth, The Dividend Guy, Dividend Money, Dividends Matter and The Investment Zoo. Then, you ... More About: Stocks , Portfolio , Investing , Start , Jump
A Real Estate Investor?s Success Story
2007-10-31 06:21:00 Little did he know, the modest condo Warren bought 8 years ago would pave the way for a lucrative ride along the surging Vancouver market. I became intrigued with Warren’s story when he started posting regularly on Financial Jungle, so I requested an interview. 1) Back in 1999, when all investors were flocking to the ... More About: A Real Estate , Estate , Story , Real Estate , Success
Real Estate Investing For The Long Haul? It Matters What Price You Pay Tod
2007-10-28 20:10:00 The best time to plant a tree was twenty years ago. The second best time is now. The Chinese who came up with this proverb sure wasn’t thinking of Vancouver real estate, and certainly not not inflation. One of the persistent excuses I hear from wannabe investors today is, “I’m in it for the long-haul. ... More About: Estate , Real Estate , Real Estate Investing , Investing , Price
Profit By Being A Good Tenant
2007-10-23 06:29:00 You know what I love about our recent paid vacation? Beside the privilege of receiving 3 paid cheques while hiking the Great Wall of China, our ever jolly landlady awarded us a rent freeze for being troublefree tenants. Who knew being good citizens could be so profitable? This shouldn’t come as a surprise for ... More About: Profit , Good , Tena
Jungle Guy Vacationing In China
2007-09-23 06:50:00 It’s that time of year! My wife and I are taking the next 3 weeks off travelling…. this time we are visiting Bejing, Shanghai, X’ian and Guilin. I’ll try to write a few posts here and there, but most likely they will have a lot to do with China . It’ll be tough ... More About: Jungle
Want Success? Be A Ruthless Pig!
2007-09-21 07:47:00 … and I wrote pig in a complementary sort of way. I just returned from my first go-karting experience organized by my employer, who’s rewarding us for a job well done on some key projects. The race was quite refreshing and fun, but more exhausting than I had anticipated. I’m still feeling ... More About: Success , Ruthless , Ruth
Jungle Guys? ESPP Dilemma
2007-09-17 09:45:00 The timing of Canadian Capitalist’s post on Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP) is impeccable, as I need to make a quick decision this week on whether to participate in my own ESPP. I must have scorned 4 or 5 consecutive invitations to enroll in my employer’s ESPP. I work for a technology company with a ... More About: Jungle , Guys , Dilemma , Dile
Use BigCharts To Time Your Dividend Stocks
2007-09-15 20:30:00 As any dividend investor will attest to, the regimen of successful dividend investing involves building a watch list of terrific companies with a long history of rising dividends, but only buy when they are cheap. How do you know when they’re cheap? There is a number matrices out there at your disposal, but ... More About: Stocks , Time , Investing , Dividend , Char
Dividend Increase: North West Company
2007-09-15 20:26:00 I’ve added a new category in Financial Jungle called “Dividend Increases”, where I’ll record all dividend raises from my portfolio. Dividend and distribution increases tend to resonate well amongst the dividend investing community, and a constant stream of positive feedbacks should motivate everyone to stay on course. North West Company is a retailer in rural ...
Jungle Bulletin: Emotional Investors, Warren Buffett, Derek Foster, Money M
2007-09-07 08:38:00 Hold on to your belly and have tissue paper standing by. You might cry from laughing too hard while reading Blain’s 50 Ways You Know You’re An Emotional Investor. Ah, those were the good old days. These 50 items don’t apply to me no more. Yeah, right. If you want free advice ... More About: Money , Warren Buffett , Warren , Buffett , Jungle
Top 10 Reasons For Dividend Investing
2007-09-04 04:54:00 I wrote this list back in early April when Financial Jungle was relatively unknown. With readership growing, I decided to resurrect and update my top reasons to invest in dividend paying stocks. Dividend s set a floor price ? Dividend stocks tend to trade within their yield range, and rarely do they yield much higher than ... More About: Investing , Reasons
Value Pick From Irwin Michael: Keynote Systems
2007-08-29 22:22:00 Last week on BNN, I caught a sound bite of renowned Canadian value manager, Irwin Michael , who manages a string of sensational mutual funds. Most notably, the ABC Fundamental Value Fund, which returned a stellar 18.8% since inception 16 years ago. What I love about Irwin Michael is his uncanny ability to uncover ... More About: Keynote , Stocks , Systems , Pick
Biovail - A Possible Value And Yield Play?
2007-08-21 02:27:00 The market tormenting me. The extra turbulence over the last few business days had taken everyone prisoner, except that they allowed the Biovail stock to revive 10% from its 52-weeks low. D’oh! I was so close in securing a juicy 10% dividend yield, my Achilles’ heel in investing, but the stock got ... More About: Stocks , Play , Investing , Ossi
Successful Dividend Investing Is Born Out of Market Corrections
2007-08-17 07:05:00 In many ways, I’m living the deja vu of the 2006 summer correction. The skittish stock market, beleaguered by the subprime mortgage woes and the credit crunch, is lunging 1% ahead one day and plummeting 2% the next. As in the last summer, my Hotmail account is flooded with stock alerts which I ... More About: Stocks , Market , Investing , Dividends , Corrections
Jungle Bulletin: Pre-Bubble Headlines, eBay Shopping, Money-Happiness, And
2007-08-07 22:18:00 It’s been a long time since Vancouver suffered any blows to real estate prices, and many young speculators are cajoled by the same headlines from prior bubbles. Langley Financial Planning revived a precious post from the Vancouver Housing Blog, who had amassed a collection of newspaper headlines just prior to the last 2 housing ... More About: Shopping , Money , Happiness , Ebay , Jungle
Jungle Guy?s Wall Of Shame
2007-08-03 18:36:00 I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed. Michael Jordan says it well. Shouldn’t we celebrate and honour our failures as if they’re stars on our shoulders? Even the best basketball player in the world couldn’t make a cut for his high school ... More About: Wall , Jungle , Jung , Sham , Shame
Bought Inter Pipeline Fund And Boston Pizza Royalty Income Fund
2007-08-02 18:36:00 I’ve recently picked up a couple of non-financial income trusts: Inter Pipeline and Boston Pizza Royalty Income Fund. Inter Pipeline Fund You can read about Inter Pipeline in my How To Pick Pipeline Trusts post, where I highlighted their key assets as well as their strong and growing free cash flow. Interestingly, The Vancouver Sun has ... More About: Stocks , Investing
Renters? Road To Financial Freedom
More articles from this author:2007-07-26 09:46:00 This MSN Money article by Jack Hough of SmartMoney is a must read if you’re a renter. I love this article for a number of reasons; it’s provocative, but more importantly, it’s like seeing myself in the mirror, since we share so many similar opinions together! It’s not easy being a renter. ... More About: Freedom , Financial , Investing , Road , Financial Freedom 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 |
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