Investing

This is part three of a four part series on how to invest your money. The main focus of this series of articles is to discuss the psychology of investing, how to get started, finding your strategy, and building your portfolio.

This is part two of a four part series on how to invest your money. The main focus of this series of articles is to discuss the psychology of investing, how to get started, finding your strategy, and building your portfolio.

With the Canadian dollar more or less at par with the US dollar and our neighbour to the south in slow recovery mode, I have become interested in adding some US stocks to my portfolio.

This is the first of a four part series on how to invest your money. The main focus of this series of articles is to discuss the psychology of investing, how to get started, finding your strategy, and building your portfolio.

This past year was a good one for my RRSP and TFSA portfolios (although not as good as 2009), with decent capital gains and a few dividend increases.

Experts have long recommended that investors set up their portfolios to be as tax efficient as possible by utilizing both registered and non-registered accounts. Here are some benefits of TFSA vs. a non-registered account:

Index investors are constantly fine-tuning their asset mix to achieve the perfect balance. In reality, does all of this diversification and re-balancing protect you in a bear market?

The reason that patience and discipline are such strong virtues of the dividend growth investor is because of yield on cost.

Mutual funds are a very popular investment. For many people they are the core investments in their portfolios. But, a lot of people are too complacent about their holdings

Canada Savings Bonds (CSBs) are now on sale and I wonder if they are still as popular now as an investment option as they were in times past.