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March 2014 Dividend Income Update

– myownadvisor.ca

Welcome to another dividend income update. For those of you new to these posts on my site, every month I discuss my approach to investing using dividend paying stocks and how reinvesting the dividends paid from the Canadian companies I own are helping me reach financial freedom. You can check out my previous dividend income update here.
As a long-term investor I don’t get too excited monitoring the portfolio. First of all, it’s not a huge sum of money yet and second, in the short-term, stock prices go up and down. There is no point getting emotional over that stuff. However over the past month I must say I am pleased with many holdings in the portfolio. A couple of examples include Canadian Oil Sands (COS), approaching a 20% gain year-to-date and TD Bank (TD), a company that started the year at an adjusted stock split price of about $45 is approaching $52 per share. Will the hot streaks continue? Time will tell…
These companies (and many others in my portfolio) are long-term buy and hold positions I have no intention of selling even if and when there is a market correction…

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