Archive for June 2021
Misguided Thinking About Dividend Investing
I’ve received an uptick in emails and comments from investors about dividends and so I thought I’d address some common misconceptions around dividend investing. One reader in particular wanted to know if he should take the commuted value of his pension ($750,000) and put it all in Enbridge stock because it was yielding around 6.5%.…
Read MoreWeekend Reading: Unhealthy Housing Market Edition
Canada’s housing market continues to defy logic as prices have shot-up more than 40% on average across the country. Last spring, then CMHC boss Evan Siddall predicted that home prices would fall between 9-18% due to the economic impact of the pandemic. So, what happened? One reason is that high income earners working from home…
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