Heather's Dividends

I am slowly but surely moving up! Lately I've enjoyed looking at how other dividend bloggers started off in their first year. Each month they slowly increased their dividends to what they are today and it shows me that anyone can do it. Even a stay-at-home mom! TFSA Laurentian Bank of Canada $3.15 Emera Inc $23.17 Inter Pipeline Ltd $11.48 Transalta Renewables Inc $6.66 Total : $44.46 RRSP Plaza Retail REIT $5.48 Bringing my dividends to... 2018 Dividend Total: $234.77 2018 RRSP Dividend Total: $19.12 This is definitely motivating me to keep investing and slowly increasing my dividends. The $44 is enough to pay for a coffee almost every day of the month :) Now I just need to double it so I can buy my husband a coffee as well! Hahaha... Happy investing! Heather

After my father passed last year, I asked my siblings if I could inherit two things; my father's investment books and his coffee machine. They graciously agreed and I am forever grateful. The boxes of books had been sitting in my little Québecois home for the past few months. Finding time to unpack and then read with four little kids is a challenge. Hats off to any parent who can achieve this! However, this month I was able to crack open a book. I picked a classic, Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits by Philip A. Fisher (This is an affiliate link). I had flipped through this book before but never got around to reading it in detail. With the help of an audiobook, I will hopefully be done reading it by the end of this decade. Wish me luck!

Back from a lovely holiday visiting friends and family in the UK. A bit behind my postings, so now I am playing catch-up! With my $1000 monthly TFSA deposit and some leftover dividends in my cash account, I topped up my holdings in Fortis by adding 24 shares at a cost of $41.73 each this past May. This brings my total holdings in Fortis to 26. Also, in my RRSP I purchased 51 extra shares of Plaza Retail REIT at a cost of $4.28 per share. Bringing my holdings to 286. I am so glad to top up my Fortis. It is one of the top 15 North American utility companies and we always need power and heating. I am happy to have more of it in my portfolio. More to come soon! Have a lovely summer. Heather

Long overdue, my April dividends are here. My TFSA paid the following: BCE $5.29 IPL $11.48 RNW $6.66 In my RRSP, PLZ.UN.TO paid a beautiful $5.48. Bringing my annual dividend total to... 2018 Dividend Total: $190.31 2018 RRSP Dividend Total to $13.64. Go me go :)

A blessed Easter to all of you! No new companies added to my TFSA portfolio this month. I ended up splitting this month's purchase between 2 companies I currently hold, Emera and BCE. Also, I have started a new experiment in my Canadian Shareowner account, which I will explain further down. I purchased 18 more shares of Emera at roughly $40 per share. I think this is a good price and a nice yield at 5.48%. This purchase brings my total shares in Emera to 41. And, I've managed to squeeze in before their ex-dividend date of April 30th. Dividend check in May! Woohoo! BCE was my second choice. I only held 7 shares and had been planning to beef it up eventually. So, I took the cash that was left in my TFSA and bought 6 more shares. Bringing my total to 13 shares and a current yield of 5.57%. Not too shabby.  New Experiment The last experiment in my Canadian Shareowner account lasted almost 9 years. Although I put roughly the same amount of money into RBC and Berk...

In the beginning of 2009, I was twenty-two years old, just out of University and the American sub-prime mortgage kerfuffle was well underway. I had a little money to spare, but back in 2009 in order to set up a self-directed discount brokerage account one needed a large deposit. Something I did not have. Except at Canadian Shareowners  a co-operative investing service. I bought two companies, Royal Bank of Canada and Berkshire Hathaway Class B. Royal Bank (at the advice of my dad) was chosen since I did not have any banking stocks. Berkshire was my choice. I did not choose it for dividends since there are none, but because I wanted to be a part of the "club." Being a part of the "club" meant I would receive the annual shareholder's package and an invitation to the annual shareholder meeting in Omaha, Nebraska (I was hopeful that one day I would go before Charlie Munger and Warren Buffet die, but alas, it has yet to happen). At the time I purchased them, Royal ...