In today’s post I’ll share my finances and investment performance over the last 3 months. 🙂 My liquid net worth does not include my home or rental properties. My liquid net worth progress – April to June It has been an amazing quarter for most asset classes. The TSX hit 20,000 points for the first time ever. Here’s… Read More »
Let others make your mortgage payments for you If you’re tired of paying your mortgage on your own then this post is for you. The MIC manoeuvre is a legal tax strategy that allows you to effectively get other people to service your mortgage, so you don’t have to. How does it work? You simply borrow money to… Read More »
A Shift in Focus Money can’t buy happiness. But it can help us look for it quicker, in a BMW. 😉 In order to maximize our chances to earn more money we have to reassess our investment strategies from time to time and be flexible to changing market conditions. Currently the price to earnings (P/E) multiple for the S&P 500 is around 25… Read More »
Sherritt Restructures its Debt Earlier this year Sherritt International, a Canadian mining company, announced plans to extend its debt maturity by 3 years in order to weather the current commodity downturn. Out of the $720,000,000 debt that will get the extension, $5,000 of it is owned by me. 😀 A couple of years ago I purchased some Sherritt… Read More »
Gradual Change According to the U.S. government, the country only grew 1% in Q4 of 2015. But that’s still better than Canada. Our GDP up here only increased 0.8%. It doesn’t feel like the economy in either country is going to pick up any time soon. Personally I don’t mind slowing down or even contraction. Slow economic times is a natural… Read More »
Mortgage Investment Corporations Returns in 2015 The Toronto Stock Exchange lost about 9% last year. But one group of investments that performed well in 2015 were mortgage investment corporations (MIC.) In the beginning of 2015 I held three different MICs. Since I didn’t add any new positions throughout the year it’s easy to calculate my total annual returns from them. Let’s take a… Read More »