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From Financial Jungle - view blog entries - visit this blogMay 12, 2020 at 1:28 am ET
A post by my adorable Financial Jungle Gal.
This year, my birthday falls adjacent to Mother’s Day. While jostling through Mother’s Day crowd presents its own challenges, I’m happy to have uncovered many birthday freebies with ... ( more)
From Financial Jungle - view blog entries - visit this blogMay 7, 2020 at 1:05 pm ET
The Public Be Damned… you may quote me: Screw ‘em.
That was the remark from legendary value manager, Marty Whitman, cursing fickle investors for fleeing his Third Avenue fund in favour of the more glamorous technology ... ( more)
From Financial Jungle - view blog entries - visit this blogApril 24, 2020 at 2:41 pm ET
This is the sixth post in the Dividend Increases series.
I think dividend-paying stocks are one of the few free lunches left in investing.
Most people looking for higher returns are often confronted with annoying market volatility, ... ( more)
From Financial Jungle - view blog entries - visit this blogApril 24, 2020 at 1:34 am ET
I used to think that since it was a capital intensive business, Carnival (CCL) wouldn’t qualify as a classical dividend growth story, but I stand corrected.
Carnival is the most dominating global cruise company in the ... ( more)
From Financial Jungle - view blog entries - visit this blogApril 21, 2020 at 4:40 am ET
Conventional wisdom jibes with the notion that bonds cannot outperform stocks over a distant horizon unless you’re toying with junk bonds. But there’s much more beneath the surface. I feel very fortunate to ... ( more)
From Financial Jungle - view blog entries - visit this blogApril 16, 2020 at 2:06 am ET
As mentioned in my High Yielding Dividend Stocks Flexing Muscles post, 12 independent studies concluded that investing in high yielding dividend stocks was a winning strategy for much of the previous century. Despite the ... ( more)
From Financial Jungle - view blog entries - visit this blogApril 15, 2020 at 3:05 am ET
Since all BNN guests are having so much fun with their top picks, I don’t see why we can’t have ours. Here are my top 3 picks:
Scotiabank (BNS) - Canada’s most international bank ... ( more)
From Financial Jungle - view blog entries - visit this blogApril 10, 2020 at 10:23 pm ET
Today, I was approached by Dave Coleman who is a lead Community Advocate from a new social lending player, CommunityLend.
The whole concept of social lending is relatively new to me. In a nutshell, CommunityLend ... ( more)
From Financial Jungle - view blog entries - visit this blogApril 10, 2020 at 12:42 am ET
The Dividend Guy recently touched on a research paper that revealed a surprising result about dividend investing; stocks that generously distribute larger percentages of their earnings to shareholders tend to outperform their stingy counterparts. ... ( more)
From Financial Jungle - view blog entries - visit this blogApril 9, 2020 at 12:56 am ET
The investment saying, “dead cat bounce”, has been thrown around recently to warn investors about the nasty surprises prowling right behind the beguiling recovery of fallen financial stocks.
While I don’t know where the financial sector ... ( more)
From Financial Jungle - view blog entries - visit this blogApril 8, 2020 at 2:46 am ET
Yesterday I celebrated Financial Jungle’s first birthday by renewing both the domain and the hosting service for another year. Yes, you have to put up with me for a little longer. And with ... ( more)
From Financial Jungle - view blog entries - visit this blogApril 3, 2021 at 9:02 pm ET
… until I land my next job, that is.
Apparently my company has been struggling with ratcheting up their sales amid the US teetering on the official definition of a recession: 2 consecutive quarters of negative ... ( more)
From Financial Jungle - view blog entries - visit this blogApril 1, 2021 at 3:45 am ET
By and large, dual-class shares are unloved by investors and PF bloggers because the structure creates a double standard that gives one class of investors unfair voting power over another. ThickenMyWallet recently wrote a ... ( more)
From Financial Jungle - view blog entries - visit this blogMarch 27, 2021 at 2:51 am ET
So you think you’re a hotshot daytrader? Let’s see if you can walk the talk.
My colleague recently forwarded me a link to this cool website called Inspectd, where you can trade real stocks with ... ( more)
From Financial Jungle - view blog entries - visit this blogMarch 23, 2021 at 3:51 pm ET
Just because the financial sector is ruing Bear Sterns’s stunning collapse doesn’t mean all dividend investors are in dire straits. Smart investors who are surviving this bear market are diversifying into sectors that don’t ... ( more)
From Financial Jungle - view blog entries - visit this blogMarch 18, 2021 at 1:48 am ET
Dividends4Life recently tagged me to write a post on My Top 3 Investing Mistakes. This series, originally launched by The Dividend Guy, is blasting through the blogosphere.
As the saying goes, “when you lose, don’t ... ( more)
From Financial Jungle - view blog entries - visit this blogMarch 12, 2021 at 11:33 pm ET
One of the greatest investing dilemmas I reckon with is ethical investing. Loading up on sin stocks doesn’t exactly align with my moral conscious. After all, most people like me have issues buying ... ( more)
From Financial Jungle - view blog entries - visit this blogMarch 3, 2021 at 2:54 am ET
In his new book, Retire Rich From Real Estate, Dr. Marc Andersen doesn’t teach you how to flip your way to overnight sensational success. Get-rich-schemes only enrich those authors, who otherwise, couldn’t score big ... ( more)
From Financial Jungle - view blog entries - visit this blogFebruary 27, 2021 at 3:50 am ET
The landscape of tax-sheltered investing will forever be changed as the 2008 Canada Federal Budget unleashed the new Tax Free Saving Account (TFSA). When my co-worker, Tony, first mentioned the name “Tax Free Saving ... ( more)
From Financial Jungle - view blog entries - visit this blogFebruary 26, 2021 at 2:33 am ET
This is the fifth post on the Dividend Increases series.
It has only been 3 weeks since my previous dividend increases post, but I feel compelled to hurry one in as Boralex Power Income Fund just ... ( more)
From Financial Jungle - view blog entries - visit this blogFebruary 23, 2021 at 3:39 am ET
This has been a lot topic among bloggers, so I’ll throw in my 2-cents.
Every asset you own can be classified into 3 broad categories: necessities, luxuries and investments.
Examples include:
Necessities: electricity, ... ( more)
From Financial Jungle - view blog entries - visit this blogFebruary 19, 2021 at 1:01 am ET
Jeffrey Strain concocts 10 reasons why we aren’t rich. In particular, I like number 7, You Rely on Others to Take Care of Your Money. Unfortunately, most people want to make money themselves, ... ( more)
From Financial Jungle - view blog entries - visit this blogFebruary 15, 2021 at 4:51 am ET
Recently, I had the pleasure to get to know one of my blog’s readers, Ryan. Like me, he is a cheapskate who likes to sniff around for dominating businesses that are selling at reasonable ... ( more)
From Financial Jungle - view blog entries - visit this blogFebruary 12, 2021 at 1:25 pm ET
80% of our net worth is our ability to earn income - Our investment portfolios extend well beyond just the securities in our brokerage accounts; our greatest asset is the ability to learn new skills ... ( more)
From Financial Jungle - view blog entries - visit this blogFebruary 6, 2021 at 2:47 am ET
This is the fourth post on the Dividend Increases series.
First, let’s get the sore thumb out of the way. My portfolio suffered a minor set-back as CI Financial Income Fund, a non-core holding, is ... ( more)
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