When choosing a potential investment to put our money in it’s important to look at all the usual financial metrics like profitability, management, history, and forecasts. But a less conventional measurement to consider and is usually harder to quantify, is employee sentiment. 😀 The world’s largest asset manager, BlackRock, which has more than $4.65 trillion of investments under… Read More »
Last week I blogged about how renewable energy is the cat’s jammies right now. It’s growing rapidly all over the world and may be one of the best investing opportunities of our life time. 🙂 Today we’ll take a closer look at how to invest in them. Why Invest in Renewable Energy In 2005 cell phone manufacturers didn’t have a clue… Read More »
Those who invest in cocoa should put their money behind bars. Chocolate bars that is! 😀 Earlier this week in part 1 of my investing in chocolate series I wrote about the insatiable global appetite for chocolate and how to make money from that. 🙂 Today I’ll go into details about how I plan to do it. Last week I… Read More »
North Americans pay a lot of money for high speed internet access. One way to get around this costly expense is to own the means that produce the service. This means buying shares of the internet service providers that we use. Telecommunication companies are usually very generous to their shareholders as many pay out up to 40% of annual… Read More »
Last month I blogged about investing in German real estate through a Canadian REIT called Dream Global. I chose this investment for its strong foothold in the European economy and for the consistent high yield. Normally dividends from foreign investments are taxed. However because I’ve bought DRG.UN in my Tax Free Savings Account it wasn’t really clear what would happen.… Read More »
Investing in DRG.UN A couple of months ago my investment in Tim Hortons came to an end as the company was purchased by Burger King and I realized a profit of over 100% in less than 2 years. In the end I was given some shares of the new holding company, and a handsome payout of $1,700 in cash. If you… Read More »