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Another month and another milestone – I was able to reach $102 in passive income for the month of March 2022. At this point, 16 months have passed since I invested my first $100 into a few dividend stocks that earned me a few cents in dividends the next month. So, it has been an […]
Welcome to a brand new month-end performance review of my Canadian dividend investment portfolio. February 2022 has been a very interesting month — my dividend income hit a new high for a non-quarter-end month, which has been a recurring theme in my portfolio of late. If you have been following my dividend journey, you might […]
Hello and welcome to a brand new year with brand new opportunities. Hope you are having a good year so far. I know I am, and I have a lot to look forward to in this year 2022. I’m very excited to bring you the update for January 2022, where I was able to reach […]
I am kicking myself as I write this article for not being able to do this article on time. What this means is that I was not able to capture the market value of my Canadian dividend portfolio exactly on December 31, 2021. I know this barely matters for an income-focused investment portfolio, but it […]
We are just one month away from, no, not Christmas, but the one-year anniversary of my Canadian dividend portfolio. From a humbling initial deposit of $100, this portfolio has grown to almost $14,000. This is pretty impressive, at least for me! Within eleven months, I have been able to grow the portfolio to generate a […]
Closing in on the one-year anniversary of my dividend investing journey, we have seen some pretty good progress so far. October 2021 is my 11th month of dividend investing and I have been able to invest $13,157 Canadian dollars. This represents about 25% of my annual income, which is neither excellent nor bad. The better […]
September 2021 is the 10th month of my Canadian dividend investment journey. In July 2021, I consolidated my TFSA and Wealthsimple Trade accounts, which were separate before. Since then, things have been moving pretty fast. I have been receiving double-digit dividends per month, which really can make a difference in my portfolio when reinvested. I […]
In July 2021, I finally got control over my TFSA from Fidelity and converted it into a dividend portfolio. So, August marks the first month since I reshuffled all my investments within my TFSA. Not only the investment increased significantly, but we also hit a new dividend income goal. I had to dissolve the investments […]
After seven months into my Canadian dividend investing journey, I come across an important crossroads. I’m finally the controller of my TFSA. When I moved to Canada last year and opened my Tax-Free Savings Account (TFSA), I had little knowledge about what it was. I went ahead with some instructions I received and opened the […]
Another month and another progress report on my Canadian dividend income portfolio. June 2021 marks the seventh month in my dividend investment journey that started in December 2020. June being a quarter-end for many companies, this month marks the highest dividend income I received so far. Dividend Portfolio Value It is quite a pleasure to […]