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Sending off some smallish-sized cheques for Emera (EMA), Bank of Montreal (BMO), Imperial Oil (IMO), CIBC (CM) and Bell Aliant (BA.UN).
My new DRIPPING goals:

make at least 10 optional cash investments before putting them back into my online broker, in order to maximize the leverage I can on no-fee investments.
make at least one investment per year [...]

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With all the financial guidance hoopla focused on ensuring that you are diversified enough, it’s easy to forget about the problem of overdiversification.  I admit that it’s not something I’ve had to think too much about yet as I am still building my portfolio.  But it occurred to me today as I was doing some [...]

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So, I’m back from a business-related vacation and am catching up on some of my administrative and financial errands.  While thinking about making my next big investment purchase, I had a little insight about diversification.  I have no idea if this is genuinely “new” or not, but it is certainly a new way of thinking [...]

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The answer to this question depends on who you’re talking to, of course. One author spouting ETF’s shows how, if you want to keep things really basic, you only need three ETF’s if they’re well chosen. A bond ETF, an S&P composite ETF, and some foreign ETF. Jim Cramer doesn’t do ETFs, [...]

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This past weekend I was in my local library and perusing through the financial section when I picked up Jim Cramer’s Real Money (2005) and Mad Money (2006) books. I’d heard obliquely of Cramer before, but, I think because historically I’ve been so focussed on “DRIPPING” as my sole investing strategy, I’d never had [...]

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