Recently, with what seems like the whole world, the stock markets have been in disarray. Just today, we had 200 point drops in both the TSX and the Dow. Actually, even the Nikkei is down 200 points as well. Welcome to the global economy!
Experts are predicting that the next few months or [...]

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My story as to why I don’t try to time the markets.
On April 3rd, I wrote an article  about my current asset allocation and my new proposed allocation.  They were almost identical except that I decided to add in some emerging markets exposure (I know you know where this is going!).
Anyways, my new allocation called [...]

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Most of the banks (well, at least the ones that I own), have released their quarterly numbers and the great news is — they all increased their dividends! The beauty of increasing dividends is that it helps set the floor price for the stock. So as long as the dividend keeps increasing, the [...]

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I have been using Quicken 2000 since, well, I guess 1999 roughly.  I upgraded from Quicken 98 because of all the Y2K hype.  It has always done everything that I needed it to do: keep track of my bank accounts and my investments.  It was definitely worth the money that I spent on it considering [...]

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Having slightly revamped my asset allocation, I decided that I would list the securities that I use to fill that asset allocation.
Equities (60%) made up of:
Canadian Equity (25%)
- Barclays iUnits S&P/TSX 60 Index Fund XIU (MER 0.17%)
- Altamira Precision Canadian Index fund (MER 0.54%)
- TD e-Funds Canadian Index (MER 0.31%)
- 14 Canadian DRiPs
I add to [...]

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