Dividend Investing Explained – A Timeless Strategy

Dividend Investing is a great strategy that can provide a steady stream of income and growth for years to come. It is one of the most common strategies out there and is very straightforward to apply. Read more to start your portfolio today! 

Mutual Funds – My 1st Affair with the Market

If I had to choose one introductory investment product for my hard earned savings that combined the terrific growth opportunities of stocks and diversity of a basket fund it would have to be a mutual fund. To put it simply, a mutual fund is simply a collection of various stocks, bonds and cash that is…

Investing 101 -Where Do I Consistently Find Money to Put Away

Looking for ways to find out ways to get money to put away without breaking your back. Check out this week’s post

Robo – Advising: A Next-Gen Idea or the Next Fad

  In this week’s post, I will be looking at Robo-Advising the industry’s newest trend. If you were to ask me today what one of the greatest flaws in the financial industry is –  it would undoubtedly be the appeal to millennials. Sure, banks have tried to attract young individuals with promotions such as free…

Investing and Gambling – Please don’t be Mis-Informed

Before I begin, as you are reading this week’s article, I would like you to keep these two definitions at the back of your head Gambling: Making risky decisions in the hopes of achieving a desired result. Investing: Utilize money or financial instruments to generate a profit by putting them into stocks, bonds and other…

Investing Mistakes that Haunt all Rookie Investors

Investing is not trigonometry. There are no hard equations or formulas but our human side makes us vulnerable. Like anything we start that’s new we always look for quick results and if we don’t get them we get de-motivated and make poor decisions. Specifically, in investing, we chase high returns (and quickly), great dividends and…

Market Lessons they don’t Teach in Business School

  A few years ago, I began my journey as an investor. I transferred over some of my savings over to Questrade; an online broker to start investing in the stock market. Lesson # 1: Beating the S&P 500 is a long term game The goal of investing is simple – you want to beat…

Brexit Aftermath: The Good, The Bad & Everything in Between

So Britain is no longer part of the EU. In an unexpected turn of events, the Leave side pulled off the victory by a narrow margin. Now although, it will still take awhile for the dust to settle and Britain to officially leave the EU – Brussels has already indicated they want the UK to…

Brexit – How we’re all in the Crossfires

On June 23rd, citizens of the United Kingdom will be asked whether or not the country should leave the European Union. Little History: The UK joined the EU in the mid 1970’s after a series of negotiations. Even though Britain is a member state – the country has never been a “complete” member. They never…

Four Tips to get out of the Red

As mentioned in last week’s article, it is almost as if like debt has become second nature these days. In many scenarios debt is unavoidable – we need extra resources to pay for schooling, housing and many others. However, once we find ourselves knee deep in debt,  what then? In this week’s article, I will…