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How much real estate should you have in your portfolio?

Posted on October 8, 2024 by Mark | 37 Comments

How much real estate should you have in your portfolio? I’ve written a lot about real estate, our journey in and out of Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) over the years, and more recently this past year – our recent…

Reader Questions – Saving and Investing Updates

Posted on April 30, 2024 by Mark | 35 Comments

Reader Questions – Saving and Investing Updates I appreciate hearing from you and receiving your saving and investing questions! I acknowledge our saving and investing approach might not be suitable to everyone yet I firmly believe things are working out…

Reader Questions – More Saving and Investing Updates

Posted on March 14, 2023 by Mark | 2 Comments

Reader Questions – More Saving and Investing Updates With more thanks to so many fine readers and subscribers, welcome to more reader questions – more saving and investing updates with my answers. I’ll remind all readers today that I’ll be…

July 2022 Dividend Income Update

Posted on August 2, 2022 by Mark | 25 Comments

July 2022 Dividend Income Update Well Hello! Welcome to my July 2022 dividend income update – and again – I hope you’re having a great summer… In case you missed it, last month, I posted this income update by answering a…

Weekend Reading – Taxable investing and superficial loss rule edition

Posted on August 6, 2021 by Mark | 21 Comments

Weekend Reading – Taxable investing and superficial loss rule edition Hey Everyone… Welcome to my latest Weekend Reading edition – this one about taxable investing and the superficial loss rule. You’ll also find some of my favourite recent finds from…

Reader Questions – What are you saving for?

Posted on June 4, 2018 by Mark | 41 Comments

Reader Questions – What are you saving for? Thanks again good readers. I appreciate hearing from you and receiving your saving and investing questions. Like other blogposts where I answer your questions (or at least offer some perspectives back to…

How much is enough for retirement?

Posted on April 22, 2018 by Mark | 20 Comments

How much is enough for retirement? We’re all told to save, invest and stay invested for the long-term. Sound advice for sure in our asset accumulation years. But most of us will want to spend what we’ve worked so hard…

Reader Questions – How I built my dividend portfolio

Posted on March 4, 2018 by Mark | 19 Comments

Reader Questions – How I built my dividend portfolio Thanks good readers, I appreciate hearing from you and receiving your saving and investing questions. This week’s reader question is all about how I built my dividend portfolio. Read on and…

Reader Questions – Essential Saving and Investing Advice

Posted on May 17, 2015 by Mark | 10 Comments

Reader Questions – Essential Saving and Investing Advice Thanks good readers, I appreciate hearing from you and receiving your saving and investing questions. I’ll be the first person to acknowledge our saving and investing approach might not be suitable to…

Questions Investors Simply Don’t Ask Themselves

Posted on March 17, 2015 by Mark | 22 Comments

Questions Investors Simply Don’t Ask Themselves Inspired by other sites and articles on this subject, including A Wealth of Common Sense, I thought I’d take a stab at answering some questions investors simply don’t ask themselves. Ben’s questions from that…

Opening Your Online Brokerage Account Primer

Posted on September 2, 2014 by Mark | 20 Comments

Opening Your Online Brokerage Account Primer Buying and selling Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs), owning your individual stocks or other securities through an online brokerage firm is not difficult work but this can be very intimidating work for new investors. That…

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How much real estate should you have in your portfolio?

Reader Questions – Saving and Investing Updates

Reader Questions – More Saving and Investing Updates

July 2022 Dividend Income Update

Weekend Reading – Taxable investing and superficial loss rule edition

Reader Questions – What are you saving for?

How much is enough for retirement?

Reader Questions – How I built my dividend portfolio

Reader Questions – Essential Saving and Investing Advice

Questions Investors Simply Don’t Ask Themselves

Opening Your Online Brokerage Account Primer

Reader Question – Should I invest directly in the USA outside registered accounts?

Reader Questions – FAQs about my retirement plan

How I Became a DIY Investor

Reader Question – Just Starting Out

Reader Question – Why don’t you just buy dividend ETFs?