2025 Goals and Resolutions – Q3 Update
With Q3 2025 in the books, it is time for a quarterly update on my 2025 goals and resolutions. For those of you who are new, since 2019, I have set goals and resolutions at …
Month: October 2025
DIY Wealth Canada Podcast: Mark Seed on FIWOOT, Withdrawal Strategies, and More
I have followed Mark Seed’s blog, My Own Advisor, for many years. The two of us happen to share very similar investing philosophies. Therefore, it’s not a surprise that Mark and I often discuss investing, …
Dividend Income – September 2025 Update
Welcome to another month of dividend income update. It’s hard to believe that Q3 is already in the books and we are in the last quarter of 2025. Where did the time go? For those …
Random thoughts – worst day of the market, tech or not, leveraging, etc
As I write this on Oct 12, we just experienced the “worst day” of the stock market since April. The S&P dropped by 2.7%, the NASDAQ dropped by 3.56%, and the TSX dropped by 1.38%. …
Reconsidering RRIF utilization in early retirement
As you get closer to retirement, you most likely will spend more and more time crunching numbers and doing retirement income planning. I previously wrote about how to convert RRSP to RRIF and the rules …