BNSPF News and Press, Bank of Nova Scotia From 02/21/21

In my first viability article, I assessed the continued portfolio cases for the first 10-12 companies in my corporate portfolio. This is part two, and we'll look over the last. Certain companies will need to be sold, and some may have to be sold at this time to create the sort of port...

Dividend investors seeking to optimize income from their investments should look at ex-dividend dates and time their purchases accordingly. The question is, how? Analyzing historical performance for one of Canada's leading banks, the Bank of Montreal, I'll compare total returns around...

In my previous article on my corporate portfolio, I wrote about initially assessing stock and investment viability in the long term. This article will be about that specific goal. Holding by holding, I will go through my reasons for keeping or selling, or targeting to sell the company...

Prem Watsa’s 13F portfolio value increased from $1.77B to $2.25B this quarter. Fairfax Financial's largest three stakes are Atlas Corp., BlackBerry, and Kennedy-Wilson. They together account for ~72% of the 13F assets. The 13F securities form a small portion of their overal...

The current valuation spread between Canada’s main stock market, the S&P TSX, and the S&P 500 is the largest in the last 20 years. The iShares MSCI Canada ETF offers exposure to Canada’s overweight allocation to the materials, energy, and financial services secto...

Stocks finished the year strongly with cyclicals and energy stocks rallying strongly. I am continuing my monthly investment plans while awaiting a market correction or possibly a real crash once market euphoria has come down. My dividend income amounted to $379, up 30% sequentiall...

The Taxable account generated a total of $16,392.71 of dividends in 2020 compared with $15,257.75 of dividends in December of 2019. Jane's Retirement Accounts generated a total of $20,495.14 of dividends in 2020 compared with $18,662.00 of dividends in December of 2019. John's Ret...

In my "real life", I run a number of businesses. One of these businesses has previously put surplus capital and excess earnings to work in stock investments. I halted this during the pandemic, rotated out what I could, and was left with a truly terrible investment portfolio, currently...

Risk and disruption ruled in 2020 as we experienced the first modern day pandemic. We changed the way we live and the way we work. Portfolio performance was greatly affected by pandemic preparedness. In 2020, only a handful of sectors performed well. One needed to be in tech, cons...

Jane's retirement accounts generated a total of $1,539.41 of dividend income for December 2020 vs. $1,259.20 of dividend income for December 2019. Jane's Traditional IRA had a balance of $348,223.06 as of December 31, 2020, vs. $319,279.39 on December 31, 2019. The estimated annualize...