Learning from my own investment mistakes
Like many Canadians, early in my investing career, I was investing in high fee mutual funds and the high fees were eating into my returns. I started dabbling in DIY investing but I didn’t get …
Investing
You have saved money, now what? How do you invest so your money can grow and compound exponentially? Let’s face it, hide money under your mattress isn’t a sound investment advice.
Learning how to invest money in dividend paying stocks and index ETFs. How to minimize taxes legally so you can grow your money without paying the taxman.
2021 Reader Survey Results + Good reads from the PF community
Although I created this blog to chronicle our financial independence journey and share things that we learn along the FI journey, I wanted to write and share content that people want to read and help …
Dividend Income – February 2022 update
If you told me at the beginning of 2020 that we’d see a global pandemic, the Taliban taking back Afghanistan, racial injustice, devastating forest fires, heatwaves, destructive floods, attack of the US Capitol, and a …
Be an owner
When it comes to dividend investing, I rely on a simple strategy – be an owner. Basically, I want to be the owner of a business that produces and sells products that people use every …
2022 Goals and Resolutions
Another new year, is it time for another set of new goals and resolutions? Or maybe not? Since 2019, I have set goals and resolutions at the beginning of the year and tracked them via …
Dividend Income – January 2022 update
Wow, it’s hard to believe January 2022 is done and we’re in February already. Hopefully 2022 doesn’t fly by this quickly. Thanks to work giving me January 4th off, we enjoyed a fun day skiing …
FIRE. RIP.
When I created this blog over seven years ago, the sole purpose was to chronicle our journey for financial independence and joyful life. I wanted to share my knowledge with like-minded people. I could have …