Investing

This post has been written by Mike from Green Panda Treehouse. He is a financial planner and run several finance blogs within his online company. If you like this post, make sure to stop by Green Panda Treehouse and subscribe to his RSS feed. When I contacted Mike to write a guest post at Money [...]

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I’ve previously posted about if passive income really exists.  Whether or not it does, as viewed from the personal finance community at large, there is a rabid interest in it.  I can understand the appeal, some work is done setting things up and result in the creation of a “financial perpetual motion machine” that throws [...]

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I recently did a review of ShareOwner discount brokerage, which promotes regular dividend stock purchases.  One thing that came out of that review, is that regardless of how cheap the trading costs are – regular purchases of stocks are quite expensive. In this post, I’m going to discuss some strategies to buy dividend stocks (or [...]

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This post is a review of Canadian ShareOwner Investments Discount Brokerage, otherwise known as “Share Owner”.  I’ll be looking at the costs and comparing various scenarios with the cheapest Canadian discount brokerage Questrade. What is Share Owner? Canadian ShareOwner Investments is a different type of discount broker.  It is the only broker that allows you [...]

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One of the complaints often heard about the investment industry is lack of disclosure about compensation.  It is up to clients to ask their financial adviser how they are compensated, and even then it might be difficult to verify if the adviser is telling the truth.  The reality is that compensation has a huge impact [...]

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Yesterday Mike reposted an old blog post from my previous blog.  Commenter Adam correctly pointed out that it was quite muddled, to the point of almost being unreadable.  As a gesture of atonement, and to hopefully prove I’ve learned a thing over two over the last three years, I want to take another shot at [...]

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There are two ways to make money with stocks: Appreciation (the difference between the purchase price and the sale price. Dividends (regular cash payments the company sends you a check for or which get deposited into your brokerage account). Most investors seem to focus exclusively on speculative gains (the appreciation), going so far as ignoring [...]

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My parents are in the process of getting their RRSP accounts converted to RRIFs (Registered Retirement Income Fund) since they are turning 71 this year.  After answering a few of their questions I thought I would do a post covering some of the basic rules and strategies of converting a RRSP account to a RRIF account. [...]

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This is a quick post to tell you that once again the RRSP contribution deadline for this year is March 1, 2010. I’ve created separate pages for RRSP contribution deadlines and contribution limits which you can see here: RRSP deadlines RRSP contribution limits In the RRSP deadline post you can look up the contribution limits [...]

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At the beginning of this year I entered into battle with some other bloggers to pick the top 4 hot stocks of 2009. My picks basically reflected a gamble on oil prices going up since I picked a bunch of junior oil companies. BCF.to – Bronco Energy. Purchase price $1.27. HOC.to – Holly Corp Purchase price [...]

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Almost 3 years ago I started up a leveraged investing plan which involved borrowing money using an investment loan (home equity line of credit) to invest in dividend stocks.  I wrote extensively about this process (see list at the bottom of page).  Over time I have seen this account go through some unbelievable volatility, have [...]

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One and a half years ago I did a post about Labour vs. Investment Income and Mike did a post about Do You Really Earn Your Investment Income? The point of both of our posts was that there is an expected investment return (ROI) that an investor can’t really take credit for.  If you match [...]

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We recently received the following question by e-mail: Hi Mr. Cheap, I just wanted to get your opinion on this theory and if you think its wortwhile in the long run. The theory goes like this; for every dollar you have in a trading in account, you can borrown a dollar on top of that. [...]

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There’s probably a decent chance this post will make you angry.  Feel free to skip it if you want to stay in a good mood.  If you decide to read it anyway and are looking for ways to vent your anger, insulting the author (Mr. Cheap) or announcing that you’ve unsubscribed to our feed are [...]

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