1) Focus on dividends. Buy companies that have a history of raising dividends each and every year. A company that raises its dividend signals confidence for the following year. 2) Don’t overpay. Buy companies that are trading at a Price Earnings [...]
"Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted." - Randy Pausch After 17 years in the investing business, I still have so much to learn. I continue to learn from others’ ideas and mistakes as well [...]
LONG LIVE BUY AND HOLD! Warren Buffett has said that his favourite holding period for a stock is forever. That might be taking buy and hold investing to an extreme, but we share the general sentiment. We recently looked at [...]
A Bitcoin can't do it. A piece of art will never dare. A bottle of wine? Forget about it. A bond? Are you out of your mind? There's nothing quite like a dividend increase. You don't have to put extra [...]
Over the past few days, I have had a number of people tell me that the market is overheated and they are waiting for a pullback or a correction to get in. If only I had a dollar for every [...]
Now that the S&P 500 is back to a five year high, investors may be wondering if stocks are still cheap. It has been a nice run since March 2009 and maybe it’s time to cash in the chips. Not [...]
"In 53 years we never had a discussion about macro affairs when buying or selling stocks.There is always going to be bad news", Warren Buffett. If the greatest investor of all-time is telling you to ignore the headlines, you should [...]
Back on June 4th of this year the S&P 500 closed at 1,277, down a gut wrenching 9% from the previous month. Toronto didn't fare any better, as it too dropped by 9%. Those who told you to sell in [...]
Buy and hold is a terrible strategy, if you aren't paying attention to a company's valuation or business strategy. Warren Buffett once said that his preferred holding period for a stock is forever. But I think he left out the [...]
Last week we closed out a tumultuous decade for the stock markets. The last ten years saw two major crashes separated by a terrific bull market and ended with a 50% gain in the last two years. The dramatic ups [...]
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