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2013 Blog Year In Review

Posted on December 26, 2013 by Mark | 18 Comments

2013 was a great year for My Own Advisor thanks to every reader and visitor. Today’s blogpost will highlight a few milestones for the site and share some reflections as part of this 2013 blog year in review. Site Traffic…

Weekend Reading – Christmas is around the corner edition

Posted on December 19, 2013 by Mark | 9 Comments

2013 was another fun year for My Own Advisor thanks to every dedicated reader, casual fan and everyone who tweeted and supported this site over the last year. I enjoy running this site and I’m glad you enjoy visiting it. Here are…

November 2013 Dividend Income Update

Posted on December 17, 2013 by Mark | 14 Comments

Welcome to my latest dividend income update, my Christmas-is-approaching-very-fast-edition. For those of you new to these posts on my site, every month I discuss my approach to investing using dividend paying stocks and how reinvesting the dividends paid from the…

What’s in your portfolio? Robb Engen from Boomer & Echo

Posted on December 16, 2013 by Mark | 2 Comments

Over the last few weeks various bloggers and financial experts have been kind to respond to my question: what’s in your portfolio? I asked this question to find out what goals these investors had, learn a little about their investing…

Year End Financial Planning

Posted on December 14, 2013 by Mark | 3 Comments

The decorations are up. The marketing campaigns are in full swing. People are becoming more edgy by the day. Yup, Christmas is coming folks. Kidding aside, it’s a great time of year and I’m looking forward to the holidays with…

Weekend Reading – Investor profiles, best ETFs, new books and more

Posted on December 12, 2013 by Mark | 9 Comments

In case you missed some posts in my series What’s In Your Portfolio, here’s a recap what some savvy investors have kindly shared with me over the last couple of weeks: Larry MacDonald’s portfolio The Passive Income Earner portfolio Dividend…

What’s in your portfolio? The Dividend Guy

Posted on December 10, 2013 by Mark | 7 Comments

A few weeks back I reached out to various bloggers and financial experts recently to ask what’s in their portfolio. I did this to find out what their investing goals were, learn a little about their investing strategies, uncover some…

Lofty financial milestones can be just around the corner

Posted on December 9, 2013 by Mark | 7 Comments

While thinking ahead to 2014 some lofty financial goals crossed my mind: Can we max-out the contribution room in our Tax Free Savings Accounts (TFSAs) by summer 2014? Can we start saving for an overseas trip in 2015? Can we…

What’s in your portfolio? Big Cajun Man

Posted on December 8, 2013 by Mark | 8 Comments

If you’ve been following my blog for the last few weeks, you know I reached out to various bloggers and financial experts to ask what’s in their portfolio. I did this to find out what their investing goals were, learn…

Weekend Reading – Portfolio profiles, debt, gift card giving and more

Posted on December 5, 2013 by Mark | 11 Comments

This week I shared a few investor profiles in my what’s in your portfolio series. Read about what and how Passive Income Earner and Dividend Ninja invest by selecting those links. Stay tuned next week because there are more profiles…