Yesterday I attended the annual general meeting of Hammond Manufacturing Company (TSE:HMM.A) which is my largest stock market investment.  It was my first time attending an AGM meeting for a public company I have invested in.  The meeting was fairly small but the management was open and friendly and willing to answer any questions.  This … Continue reading Hammond Manufacturing AGM (TSE:HMM.A)

It's good to have some investments outside of the public stock market for diversification.  One opportunity I will be looking at today is investing in co-operatives.  Firstly, what is a co-operative?  A co-op is similar to a corporation in that many investors pool their money and resources together to conduct a business.  One major difference … Continue reading Be Cooperative

Someone asked me how you can find high paying dividend stocks.  This post is a guide to looking into Canadian dividend stocks with a yield of 8% or higher and seeing if any of them are potential good investments.  First off a good starting point is the TSX stock screener that let's you find stocks … Continue reading Digging for Dividends

I love buying something when I have two coupons I can use on an item at the same time.  If I have a 10% off and a 20% off coupon giving me a total of 30% off you will find me a minute later walking out of the store with a smile and a swagger. … Continue reading Double Discount (TSE:EVT)

The province of Ontario has passed a law to increase the minimum wage in 2018 and 2019.  The minimum wage which was $11.60 in 2017 has increased to $14 this year and will increase to $15 next year.  This is an astonishing 20.7% and 7.1% consecutive increase.  I don't usually take marco-economics into account when … Continue reading Making minimum wage (TSE:SRV.UN)

Closed end funds are pools of money that are professionally managed and usually have some sort of mandate for a particular investment strategy. What makes closed end funds different is that they have a fixed amount of capital to invest compared to a mutual fund or exchange traded fund (ETF) that can grow or shrink … Continue reading Closed End Fund Privitization (TSE:CGI)

One of my favourite investing strategies involves buying companies at a discount to their tangible net asset value (NAV) that are also buying back their own shares.  To examine why this is a good strategy let's pretend there is a company ABC with 1 million shares priced at $10 dollar a share.  Let's say this … Continue reading Morguard Corporation (TSE:MRC)