Remember last year when I explained how investing in coffee businesses was an awesome idea? Well good news, because it looks like the daily grind is paying off 😉 One of those companies, Tim Hortons (THI), recently increased its dividends from $0.26 to $0.32 per share! That’s a 23% dividend increase! Holy hamburgers! That’s amazing eh (゜∀゜) I only bought 20 shares… Read More »
Absolutely incredible month for stocks in February. Most companies beat the street’s earnings expectations 😉 Furthermore, one of my favorite companies, TD, did a 1:2 stock split and raised its dividends! I also had quite a lot of DRIPs this month 🙂 #Score! The title in today’s post isn’t just a reference to Bloodhound Gang’s catchy song 😉 DRIPs are… Read More »
In a normal month my net worth would grow by about $2,000 or $3,000 depending on how much I save and how my investments perform. But January is often a special month where my net worth often grows by many times than usual, which I like to call the New Year’s Bump. This has happened every January for the past… Read More »
Overall in 2013 my net worth increased by $68,600 or 49%. Not bad 😀 But I can’t take most of the credit for it. As I will explain further below, more than $40,000 of my newly created wealth was purely coincidental. My financial performance in 2013 was mostly a reflection of the overall positive market trend, and not so much the… Read More »
When I first started this blog in 2010, I only had about $300K of financial assets. I thought that was a lot of money back then, but as I learned more about personal finance I realized that it’s actually not that much. The average household net worth in Canada today is $400K. I looked at other people’s balance sheets… Read More »
The trailer for the new X-Men movie came out earlier this week 🙂 I like how Marvel is using existing brands and characters to create fresh and interesting blockbuster films like with the latest X-Men and Avengers series. It’s part of the reason why I invested in Marvel’s parent company Disney in the first quarter of this year… Read More »