This is a dividend blog, and I am biased toward dividend-paying companies. Dividend-paying companies are generally mature, have lots of free cash flow, and prioritize the investor over the company’s management. No, they are not focused on taking “moonshots” to invent new products and break into new markets, but they are responsibly run cash machines….
I haven’t considered this for a while, but let’s look at my current top 5 holdings and see what I like about them. I will ignore the Money Market ETF, BMO Money Market Fund ETF Series (ZMMK.TO) for this list. This is just earning a bit of interest on my cash and is not a…
I watch a guy on YouTube, Ben Felix, who talks about investments. Ben is very research-focused, and each of his videos delves into some long-term study on investing that has some exciting results. Much of that still goes over my head, and I wish someone Explained It Like I Am Five. His latest video shows…
I watched an interesting Youtube video the other day. The author made two great arguments: I know that this channel loves Warren Buffett, so it quotes him on these two points. Berkshire Hathaway (of which I now own a bit) has basically doubled the return of the S&P 500 over the past 60 years because…
I decided to reduce some risks in the portfolio this week. Some of the Closed-End Funds that I invested in relied on junk bonds and unrated debt. I decided to reduce my exposure to the riskier end of the bond market. Goodbye to DSL, OPP, PHK, PDI. With interest rates higher and rising, I don’t…
In today’s fast-paced world, it’s easy to get caught up in the daily fluctuations of the stock market, obsessively tracking your investments and fretting about every dip. However, the most successful investor might just be the one who invested in the market and then forgot about it for a decade. This accidental investor doesn’t watch…
I can’t take this anymore. It’s bordering on ridiculous. Stocks are down another 1%-2% today, and banks are getting wrecked. I invest in financial stocks. I invest in banks. I have my money in cash in bank accounts. If banks fail, what is there? This is supposedly the bedrock on which our financial system is…
On Friday, Silicon Valley Bank failed. This is the second-largest bank failure in US history. The failure of Lehman Brothers on September 15, 2008, is widely considered to be one of the key events that triggered the 2008 global financial crisis. This started a series of dominoes to fall, that affected banks that had lent…
I wrote in the last post that I was not satisfied with any of the so-called money market or short-term bond funds available in Europe. It was a real problem because I wasn’t comfortable investing more cash into risky assets. And there were no safe assets. Today I had a bit of an epiphany on…
In the last couple of days, I’ve decided to push some more money into the market in a very conservative way. Extremely conservative. I put 13.5% of my portfolio in Canadian ultra-short-term bonds using the BMO Ultra Short-Term Bond ETF (ZST). BMO Ultra Short-Term Bond ETF has been designed to provide exposure to a diversified…
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