Lately, I spend way too much time sifting through the news and blogs for the latest updates on the economy. While doing that, I sometimes get distracted by the “most popular news” headlines and who knows what else. Frankly, it’s getting in the way of my work. So I’m taking Steve Pavlina’s advice (I know [...]
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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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Last month I invested in Telus (for its growth and rising dividends), Suncor (needs no explanation, I hope), RioCan (extremely cheap pricing right now) and Canadian General Investments (just because I haven’t given it attention in a while).
This month’s DRIPs include Scotiabank (BNS), TransAlta (TA) and TransCanada (TRP). It’s partly because their investment dates are [...]
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I also wrote about this in a previous post, and I think it’s time to stress how amazing this option is again. If you’re on a low income or sporadic income, you really need to get acquainted with this form of investing for cashflow. You can invest in stocks directly using dividend reinvestment plans [...]
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Who knows, they could be yours too! Everyone’s situation is different and no one’s is simple. Unless you inherited lots of money or grew up with rich parents who funded your first car, degree, and house, then probably you’ve also had to go majorly into debt just to try to get ahead.
There isn’t going to [...]
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Many of these tips will no doubt apply to Computershare US and Australia, etc., too. I’ve been thinking about Computershare again lately as I try to get two more DRIPs up and running (if you don’t know about DRIPs, read about why I think you should be in them or how they’re perfect no [...]
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Andy over at $aving to Invest tagged me with the Single Step Personal Finance Challenge created by Mrs. Micah. The challenge is to find “one step you can take to make your financial system better or more organized.” This is my first tag!:) It’s like finally getting a Valentine’s Day card when [...]
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