Common TFSA mistakes to avoid
A new year means new TFSA contribution room for Canadians and permanent residents 18 years and older. In case you’re not familiar with the TFSA, please check out the ultimate TFSA guide to understand the …
Tawcan is a Canadian personal finance and dividend investing blog that chronicles my quest for financial independence and joyful life.
I started this blog to show it is possible to achieve financial independence as a single-income family with two young kids while living in Vancouver Canada, one of the most expensive cities in the world.
My wife and I started building our dividend portfolio in 2011 after a financial epiphany.
Today, the portfolio generates over $6,000 in dividends per month. We originally dreamed of becoming financially independent and living off dividends by 2025. Although we could live off dividends by supplementing it with a part time income in 2025, we aren't in a rush to cross the so called "finish line." Therefore, we are taking it easy and we plan to realize the dream of living off dividends before 2030.
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Dividend Income – Jan 2025 Update
Welcome to the first monthly dividend update for 2025! Who could have predicted that we would see so much volatility in the stock market in the first two months of 2025? I certainly didn’t! As …
Best Canadian monthly dividend stocks – My top 9
If you’re reading this blog, there is a good chance that you are interested in financial independence retire early. More specifically, you are looking to invest in dividend growth stocks and live off dividends when …
Five dividend stocks we plan to buy in 2025
In December, I wrote about the Canadian dividend stocks we’d consider buying for TFSA in 2025. With the TFSA contributions behind us and purchases made already, it’s time to look ahead to other dividend stocks …
2025 Goals and Resolutions
Since 2019, I have set goals and resolutions at the beginning of the year. I then provide an update on this blog every quarter. If I do the math right, this is the seventh year …
VXC vs. XAW – The battle of ex-Canada international index ETFs
If you’re a long time reader, you know that we deploy a hybrid investment strategy – we hold both individual dividend-paying stocks and index ETFs in our dividend portfolio. When it comes to an international …
All Equity ETFs Review – VEQT vs. XEQT vs. HEQT
Since publishing my analysis of all-in-one ETFs in Canada and mentioning that we are going from multi-ETFs to all-in-one ETFs for our kids’ RESPs, we have gone ahead and made the changes. We picked iShares …