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What are the 3 common investing myths? Do you succumb to these myths or chart your own investing path? Don't let these investing myths prevent you from investing successfully.

1. Investing on your own is very risky.
False! Investing on your own is only risky if you don't know what your are doing. Investing is only risky if you are speculating. My value investing approach is simple, easy to implement, and requires you to take on very little risk. I can show you how to reduce all of the 6 major …

Are you looking to increase your investment income? What is the simplest and quickest way to increase your earnings? Dividends!

Not just any dividends but dividends that increase regularly. In this article let's take a look at the power of dividends and some recent dividend increases. A dividend is money that you receive for being a shareholder. Essentially the company is sharing it's profits with you the shareholder.

Let's take a look at a fictional company where the share price is $12 and th…

Yes, you can buy individual stocks within your RRSP. Take advantage of the benefits of having an RRSP, and any employer matching contributions while taking charge of your own retirement money. Plus you can avoid the high fees mutual funds typically charge.

A Registered Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP) is an account that provides tax benefits for saving for retirement in Canada. Any money that you put into your RRSP reduces your taxable income by the same amount; therefore your income taxes will b…

The beginning of the new year is a great time to plan for the future. Plan on how you will be able to earn more passive income this year than last year. Here are 3 tips to help you earn more:

1. Remain Focused Ignore all the media noise about debt, high unemployment, and downturns. Do not jump from one strategy to the next. Stay focused on investing in quality dividend paying companies when they are undervalued (priced low).

2. Patience Investing requires patience, in the short term stock pric…

“The secret to successful investing can be reduced to two simple words: know value.”  

These famous words were uttered by Arnold Bernhard more than 25 years ago. Here is an excerpt from the December 2011 edition of Investment Quality Trends (p. 10):

My friend Dr. Mark Skousen recently presented me with a copy of The Maxims of Wall Street, his collection of “old Wall Street chestnuts, proverbs, slogans, poems, and aphorisms, drawing from experiences in the marketplace and reading dozens of book…

A recent study* showed that “earning more” is at the top of most people’s mind when it comes to making new year resolutions. Earning more than last year is a good goal to have, but how do you achieve it? Education is the key, the right knowledge will help you make wise investment decisions which will lead to more money. But first, why is this goal important to most people? What do all these things have in common?

• donating to charity
• spending more time with family and friends
• going on vacati…

Preet Banerjee from WhereDoesAllMyMoneyGo.com recently posted a great article showing that dividends have made up 43% of S&P 500 historical returns. What does this mean for you?

More dividends (money) in your pocket, more passive income! Dividends are also a great safety net from poor management. It is difficult for investors like you and me to know when a CEO of CFO might be lying or if the statements have been altered.

However once a dividend has been paid it can not be taken back.  Here's a…

Dividends aren’t just something rich people talk about, or a Community Chest card in Monopoly.  They are the most consistent and easiest way to gain passive income as an investor.  When most people think about investing in the stock market they think about movies where young men with slick hair invest in little-known companies and then profit hugely when these companies suddenly explode. 

The phrase, “Buy low, sell high,” rolls off of most peoples’ tongues.  The fact is that this not how most p…

Most people invest in mutual funds, but do mutual funds make good investments? Could you be wasting thousands of dollars of your hard earned money?

Mutual funds are a popular investment tool made up of a pool of money combined by individual investors, organizations and companies. A manager invests and oversees the cash the collective group has placed into the mutual fund. Mutual funds are not insured by any federal agency, which means that the value could fall, and you may end up selling them f…

Someone recently asked me regarding my stock portfolio, about how I felt regarding the latest fears about Greece, the Euro, higher banking fees, and higher consumer debt, “How do you sleep at night, knowing that all your money is in stocks?”

I sleep very well, because I ignore the media noise. There is just too much chatter about economic doom and gloom on the internet, radio, and television. Reality and what the media portrays are two different things. The media is focused on selling advertisi…