Below are 3 key Tips to select a Dividend Stock for your Portfolio.  Please note this list is not exhaustive and there are other factors to be considered of all stocks in general.

1. Look at the sustainability of the dividend not just the gross amount.  One key metric...

Invest in businesses you can understand and ‘put your arms around’.  It’s important to establish your circle of competence as an investor.  If you don’t understand what the company does, or how they make their money, their strength, their weaknesses, and competitive po...

You will often hear traders use the term trading range, when referring to either an entry or exit point of when to buy or sell a stock.  What they mean by the trading range is the high and low price over a certain time period.  The bottom end of the range is a support...

When central banks raise interest rates in response to positive economic indicators this is typically done to tamp down inflation pressures because they believe it will rise in the future.  The other end of this is that increased interest rates will also moderate futur...

There are several reasons and or situations that you should be getting a land survey.  Below are our top 7 reasons:

1. Buying a new piece of land in which case banks would usually require it.

2. Building anything new on your property such as an addition or extension.

   ...

We are almost 10 years into this bull market, and according to some analysts it is just a matter of time before the market simply runs out of steam and falls flat on it’s face in not so many words.  Meanwhile, others will point to the decline in 10-year interest rates...

If you plan on purchasing a US residential investment property you will have less financing options than purchasing property domestically.  Canadian banks will not provide financing on US properties, but there are US lenders with Canadian affiliation such as RBC Bank a...

Put options are a contract which gives the buyer the right but not the obligation to sell a specified amount of an underlying security within a time range at a specific price.  Conversely if you are the seller or writer of a put option you have the obligation to buy th...

Making investment decisions can be confusing amid constant conflicting information from news headlines.  Often making decisions based on news headlines can actually result in poor portfolio performance.  There are several reasons for this. 

Firstly, news media...

The purpose of diversification is to minimize correlation risk within your investment portfolio.  In a simplified example say you had two Investments A and B.   If investment A went down 10% in a given year you don’t want investment B to be correlated to investment A s...