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Buying Dividend Stocks Successfully at a Premium

*This post was delivered to readers of The Stock Analysis Waiting List on March 14, 2017.  Join if you would like to receive early releases of posts such as this here. By far the most common question I have ever received from readers of the blog has been regarding when to buy or sell investments.  Over the [...]

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Tracking My Monthly Investment Income

February was a very significant month as I achieved a long awaited accomplishment and milestone for the first time.  I saw a minimum of $1,000 of investment income deposited into our dividend growth portfolio for each consecutive month of the past year.  Some months had been as high as $1,400 but consistently achieving a minimum [...]

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Ways to Protect Against a Market Correction

*This post was delivered to readers of The Stock Analysis Waiting List on December 31, 2016.  Join if you would like to receive early releases of posts such as this here. Ways to Protect Against a Market Correction (or Prolonged Bear Market) We are at that point in the equity market cycle where each week there are [...]

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Best Times to Make an Extra Mortgage Payment

Long time readers of Triage Investing Blog will know that I don’t view a residential mortgage as an investment. Instead I like to look at a mortgage as: • A necessary non-speculative purchase (you have to live somewhere) • A fixed asset that should appreciate approximately 2%-4% per year • An asset to be utilized in a [...]

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Invest Like Warren Buffett

I got an email in response to my 2016 Lessons Learned post asking me to clarify about my comments near the end of the post about Warren Buffett and investing. “…I’ve said countless times this year: Don’t invest like Warren Buffett. Invest like Warren Buffett. So many investors want to copy, emulate and imitate Warren [...]

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Cara Foods Acquires Original Joe’s

*This post was delivered to readers of The Stock Analysis Waiting List on September 1, 2016.  Join if you would like to receive early releases of posts such as this here. Back in August I wrote a post titled, Allocation of Capital – New Positions & Purchases in 2016, in which I included a short synopsis [...]

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2016 Lessons Learned

When reviewing my investing activities and performance in 2016 the common theme was allocation of capital and each year as I get older the more I find my focus is on quality, prudent portfolio management and on increasing tax efficient cashflow from my investments (dividends). My large cash position of 30% at the start of [...]

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The 5% Rule:

Reports, forecasts, target prices, analysis from analysts, upgrades and downgrades. Investors today are overwhelmed with information they can access at a speed we never could before. Logging into the updated version of WebBroker (TD) alone has me asking, “Why all the fluff?” I’ve always been a concentrated specialist when it comes to researching my investments [...]

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Bringing Home the Bacon – Maple Leaf Foods (MFI)

This post was delivered to readers of The Stock Analysis Waiting List on August 25, 2016. Join if you would like to receive early releases of posts such as this here. My investing approach is fairly simple; I want to buy good companies, with great products, that have solid leadership, margins that matter, increasing profitability and [...]

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Mail Bag: Pacific Insight Electronics (PIH) & Apple (AAPL)

Marsha writes, “I follow commentary by a few money managers like Bruce Campbell, Paul Harris and Michael Irwin trying to pick up tips on value stocks to buy. What are your thoughts on Pacific Insight and Apple?  Are they good value stocks or should I be looking elsewhere?” First thanks for the questions! For disclosure [...]

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