Little gain by little gain: on the road to financial recovery

I finish work at 6pm and went for a walk after. The weather was so nice in Montreal this evening; a nice spring wind was in the air. Just last week, I was freezing to death, and tonight, well, tonight was really enjoying spring night. I couldn’t stop walking, feeling the nice wind in my hair. I went to Park Lafontaine, than continue walking downtown, went down to Radio-Canada tower. I continue my walk to the Old Montreal, went back downtown, all the way from St-Catherine Musique Plus to the Chapter, where I finish the evening and than I took the metro to come back home. Nice evening today I hope for another beautiful day for tomorrow. While walking, I had plenty of time to think. And I decide it could worth it to search for another job. Want to know why?

Well, I want to recover from my bad investments made in Timminco (TIM), Sprott Inc. (SII), and the other like HE, DNI, BNT and Sprott Canadian Equity Fund. I lost around 7 000$ in bad investment. I went through the calculation of those loses previously. I had learned from my investment mistakes. But now that I learn, I would very much to gain an extra 7 000$ in income in order to catch up. I would invest the money in a solid company like Enbridge (ENB) (hold by Derek Foster by the way lol). I always had great regrets when it comes to the bad investment choices I made in the early beginning when I decide to invest. If only I would have stick to Derek Foster portfolio, I wouldn’t be here today, thinking about how to recover. Yes I have more than 50 000$ worth in net value (after 2010 dividend earnings) but I know that I can achieve much more than that.

If I can have 2 000$ per month to invest, I would be able to reach the 100 000$ in assets in 6 months from now. By the end of 2010, I could exceed the 100 000$ in assets.

Another reason for my motivation is that some of my mutual funds investments are now at the same level that they were before the stock crash of 2008. So this mean that we’ll soon get back to the point where our mutual funds investments – mostly concentrated in our RSP portfolio will provide us a positive return. In the last couple of months, we lost some money in our mutual funds. At a point, I asked myself if it wouldn’t be better to just have the money sleeping in a saving account. But that taught never last for long. It’s just the recovery period had been extremely long for me, like I couldn’t see the end of it.

Heres some examples of what I am trying to explain:

The investment: CIBC Dividend Growth Fund
Initial investment value: 500$
When the investment was made? January 2007
My lowest point that I recorded was in August 2009. In August 2009, my investment in the CIBC Dividend Growth Fund only worth 465.98$.
What does it worth now? 505.21$ in date of April 1, 2010. Since January 2007, in 3 years of investment, I earn 5.21$ in profit from the CIBC Dividend Growth Fund. This is showing how tough the road had been. But as you can see, since we mark a gain with this investment, we can say that the stock market is on the road for a recovery. Personally speaking, this also mean for me that the CIBC Dividend Growth Fund is a pretty good fund, because we didn’t lost our initial capital, which was 500$.

We don’t have many examples like this one in our portfolio. But here is another one:

The investment: RBC Canadian Dividend Fund
Initial investment value: 500$
When the investment was made? January 2008
My lowest point that I recorded was in August 2009 also, when the investment in RBC Canadian Dividend Fund only worth 466.22$.
What does it worth it now? 513.48$. That being again on date of April 1, 2010. Since January 2008, I made 13.48$ from the RBC Canadian Dividend Fund… 13.48$ in 2 years of investment. I am being quite sarcastic, but once again, the RBC Canadian Dividend Fund had been strong enough to recover from the loses experiment in August 2009. The RBC Canadian Dividend Fund, just like the CIBC Dividend Growth Fund, is a very powerful, extraordinary investment if you want my point of view. Reason being that the investment save the value of our initial capital invested which was, in both cases, 500$.

This is one of the reasons why it is extremely important to diversify your investment portfolio. A portfolio will never be too much diversified.

And I like my portfolio! Forgive my craziness to have this very messy portfolio. The money is all over the place, in different investment products. You can name them all, I have them all (or almost): GIC, mutual funds, stocks, units, segregated funds, cash… I have all that :) Not now but on the long run, we should be able to generate good gain by this diversification. That’s one of the reasons why we have to get a third job. Is that understandable?

lol….

As you can see, the spring wind wasn’t only beneficial to my hair, but it was also beneficial to my little brain.

So I am hoping to see this kind of recovery for all of my mutual funds. I had worked hard at trying to pick the best funds and I am looking forward to recover from my mutual funds loses and also make money from those same investments. If we calculated the gain made by the recovery + our dividend earning + the current value of our assets; that really begin to make some serious awesome cash. This is getting way too hot.

So guess I will be job searching really really soon.

I am now at 87 291.72$

Interesting gain earns by the TSX today, but the gains aren’t showing up in my non registered stocks and units portfolio! I think its one of the first time this is ever happening to me, that my portfolio is not following the gain of the TSX. Our non registered stocks and units investment portfolio is now at 47 991.39$, a lost of a 311.47$ compare to March 29! A couple of things are going really wrong! Sprott Inc. (SII) is falling… under 4$! Timminco (TIM) is falling… under 1$! Hanwei Energy Services (HE) is falling… under 40 cents! Those are the major issues in our investment portfolio. If only the Sprott Canadian Equity Fund could performed better, it could bring Sprott Inc. (SII) to up to 5$ per stock. Sprott Canadian Equity Fund is doing better, but the fund is not doing better than following the gains of the TSX. At a management fee of 2.5% per year, I am expecting much more coming from the Sprott Canadian Equity Fund. High management fee but poor return. That’s what I had experiment with the Sprott Canadian Equity Fund so far.

Other than some loses and poor results with some so call investment, we experiment some positive gains today, but the gains were not enough to cover the loses, so we finish the day at -311.47$. PGF.UN continue its journey and will probably reach the 12$ per unit very soon. DHF.UN seem to be pretty close to the 18$ per unit. BNS will probably reach 51$ per stock very soon… Some great things are going on in our portfolio. Growing like a pretty little garden.

Our registered investment portfolio (RSP) had done very well, an increase of 110$ compare to March 29. Our mutual funds also earned interesting gain. Since I received a paycheck from my second job today, I add an extra 300$ to my savings section, for a total of 1 002.69$. Without that extra 300$ in savings, I would have been at 86 991.72$... But we have some savings so we now have 87 291.72$ in assets. Not bad isn’t?

My stock investment portfolio in date of March 29, 2010

Savings:
2.69$ (ING Direct)
700$ (regular savings)

TOTAL: 702.69$

Non registered Investments:
Stocks & Units investment portfolio
Sprott Inc. (SII): 2 073.63$
Timminco (TIM): 172$
Blue Note Mining (BNT): 42$
Bank of Nova Scotia (BNS): 5 364.45$
Hanwei Energy Services (HE): 126$
Methanex Corporation (MX): 2 666.67$
Fortis (FTS): 3 047.10$
Pembina Pipeline Income Fund (PIF.UN): 7 165.55$
Just Energy Income Fund (JE.UN): 10 338.90$
Dumont Nickel Inc. (DNI): 460$
Yellow Pages Income Fund (YLO.UN): 2 693.26$
Bell Aliant Regional Communications Income Fund
(BA.UN): 2 573$
Pengrowth Energy Trust (PGF.UN): 1 230.66$
Enbridge Income Fund (ENF.UN): 4 112.64$
Corby Distilleries Limited (CDL.A): 1 543$
Davis + Henderson Income Fund (DHF.UN): 1 760$
Premium Brands Holdings Corporation (PBH): 2 934$

TOTAL: 48 302.86$

Tax-free savings account (TFSA):
RBC O’Shaughnessy Canadian Equity Fund:
2 748.03$
The Consumers’ Waterheater Income Fund (CWI.UN):
1 044$
Sprott Canadian Equity Fund: 5 025.03$
Cash: 21.69$

TOTAL: 8 838.75$

RSP investment portfolio:
Claymore Gold Bullion ETF (CGL): 2 008$
EnCana Corporation (ECA): 3 099$
Emera Incorporated (EMA): 4 928$
Cash: 259.15$

CIBC Dividend Growth Fund: 504.59$
CIBC Emerging Markets Index Fund: 445.78$
CIBC Monthly Income Fund: 975.09$

Energy and Base Metals Term Savings (Indexed term savings): 546.25$
Natural Resources Term Savings (Indexed term
savings): 502.06$

GIC National Bank: 1 170$
GIC Finance Plus: 1 513.97$
GIC Plus: 500$

TD Canadian Bond: 111.29$
TD Monthly Income: 101.62$
TD Emerging Markets: 80.61$
TD Energy: 80.47$
TD Precious Metals: 101.53$
TD Latin American Growth: 94.54$
TD Entertainment & Communications: 105.29$
TD Dividend Growth: 200.72$
TD U.S. Mid-Cap Growth: 100.72$

Maritime Life International Equity Fund
(Templeton): 644.76$
Manulife Simplicity Growth Portfolio: 865.48$
Maritime Life CI Harbour Seg Fund: 1 016.87$
Maritime Life Fidelity True North Seg Fund: 965.41$
Maritime Life Trimark Europlus Seg Fund: 608.03$

Great West - Various: 1 704.96$

RBC Canadian Dividend Fund: 511.73$
RBC U.S. Mid-Cap Equity Fund C$: 1 826$
RBC Global Resources Fund: 912.68$
RBC O’Shaughnessy International Equity Fund:
597.59$
RBC O’Shaughnessy All-Canadian Equity
Fund: 1 020.96$

GIC Canadian Market: 1 000$

TOTAL: 29 103.15$

Social Capital at Desjardins Membership share for
3 accounts: 40$

Savings + Stocks, units, mutual funds + Tax-free
savings account + RRSP + Online Income (99.68$):
87 087.13$
[In date of March 29, 2010]

Welcome in the house Methanex Corporation (MX) dividend in my online future trading brokerage

I didn’t make any gain today from my non registered stocks and units portfolio. I close the day at 48 060.82$, loosing 242.04$ compare to March 29. It’s not dramatic, I am confident to experiment interesting gain in the upcoming weeks. Hope April will be even better than March. Difficult to believe, but another month is about to start!

I received my Methanex Corporation (MX) dividend today. I had received 15.96$ from Methanex Corporation (MX). This dividend didn’t bring extra stock to our portfolio since Methanex Corporation (MX) is at more than 20$ per stock at this time. For the month of March 2010, I had earned 193.35$ in dividend. The month of March had been quite busy for our investments. I got my RSP loan, borrow 5 000$ to invest in Just Energy Income Fund (JE.UN), etc… March had been a great month, I managed myself quite well with my online future trading brokerage. Hope the next several months will be even better.

I have a few other projects on the way. One Web site project had been working on for a little while. On May 30, a 1 000$ I was holding in the Financials GIC Plus RSP will be release. I am hoping for a return on my 1 000$ investment. I just cannot wait to see how much I will earn. I made this 1 000$ investment in the Financials GIC Plus RSP back in 2005. That was 5 years ago! On May 30, I should received at least 1 000$, if not more in my RSP saving account. When the money will be from my RSP saving account, I will transfer the money into my broker account. That amount will be added to the 259.15$ I currently hold in cash in my RSP broker account. But that will only happen in the beginning of early June. Will there any other project before June?

Well, we have that emergency fund that we had fix at 2 000$ that we want to have in our saving account. Its something extremely boring to work on, but I felt its some kind of a necessity, at some point. So we are slowly building an emergency fund of 2 000$ or around it, we’ll see what can be save. We gave ourselves until the month of May, were our RSP loan payment will begin, to match 2 000$ in savings or the closest we can be to it.

It’s pretty much it for the upcoming investment projects. Nothing much. But to do more, I would need more money.

At this point, I am very please with my portfolio. Of course I would like to see my portfolio grow even more. But it’s not like before, it’s not like I am feeling any kind of interior pressure to earn more money to purchase more stocks. So the necessity of searching for a third job is more or less there. I know its silly, but working at 3 jobs at the same time is the only way I find to earn good money without doing anything illegal.

So the question being: should I job search or not? Should we all think about this one.

Happy April fooool.

I am now at 87 087.13$

Today, our non registered portfolio reach 48 302.86$, an increase of 199.95$ compare to March 24! Consequently, we update our portfolio. Our overall portfolio increase of 339.57$, to reach 86 387.14$. To the 86 387.14$ we add 700$ in savings because it bring the overall to more than 87 000$. We really have those savings at this time, if not a bit more. Rent payment is coming soon, but my savings should stabilize later on during the month. I am looking forward for other fabulous increase! I am officially at 87 087.13$ in assets.

And what about our dividend? Let’s update our annual dividend income:

From our non registered investment portfolio:
Sprott Inc. (SII): 507 stocks x 0.16$ = 81.12$
Bank of Nova Scotia (BNS): 105 stocks x 1.96$ = 205.80$
Methanex Corporation (MX): 103 stocks x 0.62$ = 63.86$
Fortis (FTS): 105 stocks x 1.12$ = 117.60$
Pembina Pipeline Income Fund (PIF.UN): 413 units x 1.56$ = 644.28$
Just Energy Income Fund (JE.UN): 723 stocks x 1.44$ =

1 041.12$
Yellow Pages Income Fund (YLO.UN): 433 units x 0.804$ = 348.13$
Bell Aliant Regional Communications Income Fund (BA.UN): 100 units x 2.904$ = 290.40$
Pengrowth Energy Trust (PGF.UN): 106 units x 0.84$ = 89.04$
Enbridge Income Fund (ENF.UN): 306 units x 1.152$ = 352.51$
Corby Distilleries (CDL.A): 100 stocks x 0.56$ = 56$
Davis + Henderson Income Fund (DHF.UN): 100 units x 1.836$ = 183.60$
Premium Brands Holdings Corporation (PBH): 200 stocks x

1.176$ = 235.20$
TOTAL: 3 708.66$

From our Tax-free savings account (TFSA) portfolio:
Consumers’ Waterheater Income Fund (CWI.UN): 200 units x 0.648$ = 129.60$
TOTAL: 129.60$

From our RSP portfolio:
EnCana Corporation (ECA): 100 stocks x 0.80$ = 80$
Emera Incorporated (EMA): 200 stocks x 1.132$ = 226.40$
TOTAL: 306.40$

3 708.66$ + 129.60$ + 306.40$ = 4 144.66$ + 100$ from DRIP = 4 244.66$

4 244.66$ / 12 months = 353.73$

353.73$ x 10 months (April-December 2010) = 3 537.22$

87 087.13$ + 3 537.22$ = 90 624.35$

Difficult to realize, but we only have 9 months left to reach our first 100 000.00$!

My stock investment portfolio in date of March 24, 2010

Savings:
2.69$ (ING Direct)

Non registered Investments:
Stocks & Units investment portfolio
Sprott Inc. (SII): 2 175.03$
Timminco (TIM): 176$
Blue Note Mining (BNT): 44$
Bank of Nova Scotia (BNS): 5 388.60$
Hanwei Energy Services (HE): 123$
Methanex Corporation (MX): 2 539.98$
Fortis (FTS): 3 019.80$
Pembina Pipeline Income Fund (PIF.UN): 7 272.93$
Just Energy Income Fund (JE.UN): 10 237.68$
Dumont Nickel Inc. (DNI): 460$
Yellow Pages Income Fund (YLO.UN): 2 680.27$
Bell Aliant Regional Communications Income Fund
(BA.UN): 2 592$
Pengrowth Energy Trust (PGF.UN): 1 232.78$
Enbridge Income Fund (ENF.UN): 4 020.84$
Corby Distilleries Limited (CDL.A): 1 530$
Davis + Henderson Income Fund (DHF.UN): 1 760$
Premium Brands Holdings Corporation (PBH): 2 850$

TOTAL: 48 102.91$

Tax-free savings account:
RBC O’Shaughnessy Canadian Equity Fund:
2 725.36$
The Consumers’ Waterheater Income Fund (CWI.UN):
1 054$
Sprott Canadian Equity Fund: 5 039.76$
Cash: 21.69$

TOTAL: 8 840.81$

RSP investment portfolio:
Claymore Gold Bullion ETF (CGL): 1 964$
EnCana Corporation (ECA): 3 082$
Emera Incorporated (EMA): 4 908$
Cash: 259.15$

CIBC Dividend Growth Fund: 504.32$
CIBC Emerging Markets Index Fund: 442.58$
CIBC Monthly Income Fund: 977.36$

Energy and Base Metals Term Savings (Indexed term savings): 546.25$
Natural Resources Term Savings (Indexed term
savings): 502.06$

GIC National Bank: 1 170$
GIC Finance Plus: 1 513.97$
GIC Plus: 500$

TD Canadian Bond: 111.45$
TD Monthly Income: 101.43$
TD Emerging Markets: 80.09$
TD Energy: 79.86$
TD Precious Metals: 99.82$
TD Latin American Growth: 93.51$
TD Entertainment & Communications: 105.09$
TD Dividend Growth: 200.37$
TD U.S. Mid-Cap Growth: 100.62$

Maritime Life International Equity Fund
(Templeton): 640.15$
Manulife Simplicity Growth Portfolio: 862.51$
Maritime Life CI Harbour Seg Fund: 1 012.14$
Maritime Life Fidelity True North Seg Fund: 966.18$
Maritime Life Trimark Europlus Seg Fund: 598.63$

Great West - Various: 1 704.96$

RBC Canadian Dividend Fund: 509.85$
RBC U.S. Mid-Cap Equity Fund C$: 1 829.37$
RBC Global Resources Fund: 901.48$
RBC O’Shaughnessy International Equity Fund:
587.64$
RBC O’Shaughnessy All-Canadian Equity
Fund: 1 012.88$

GIC Canadian Market: 1 000$

TOTAL: 28 967.72$

Social Capital at Desjardins Membership share for
3 accounts: 40$

Savings + Stocks, units, mutual funds + Tax-free
savings account + RRSP + Online Income (93.43$):
86 047.56$
[In date of March 24, 2010]

Nice gain this morning in our non registered investment portfolio

I wake up in much better shape. No more back pain. As for now, our non registered stocks and units investment portfolio is at 48 165.93$ (at 10:30AM exactly). I cheat yesterday on my non expense rule. I will probably cheat again. The 2 000$ in savings was just a number like that up in the air, 1 000$ or even 1 500$ could do just fine, but we’ll see how it goes. Maybe I will look for another job to add more money in. Things were working extraordinary well before the BMO episode. Things will continue to work out for us. I am very happy to see Claymore Gold Bullion ETF (CGL) exceeding the 10$ per unit this morning. We have a chance to hit the 100 000.00$ mark. Things are getting pretty interesting. I am very happy to have more than 10 000$ invested in the Just Energy Income Fund (JE.UN). Would be nice to have one day 10 000$ in all the stocks and units I hold.

Its going to be difficult to see 2 000$ in our saving account without doing anything with it. I would very much to invest in 100 new stocks of Corby Distilleries Limited (CDL.A) to benefit of its DRIP. Corby Distilleries Limited (CDL.A) is a good pick of Derek Foster. Corby Distilleries Limited (CDL.A) value is pretty stable as its stock price seem to remain always around 15.20$-15.30$. This Corby Distilleries Limited (CDL.A) bring stability to our investment portfolio and we like it. Going to work for now, million things to do. Yesterday was nice because I did all of my laundry and my place is ultra-clean now. Could eat on the floor.

Keeping it in control: living on a budget

Very cold day in Montreal! I hope the weather will get better soon. I went for a walk after work. I like Lafontaine Park. It’s near my place. I am looking forward to exercise more. A horrible thing to say at 29. At 29, I should be healthy, pretty and slim. But instead, I hold 86 000$ in assets lol. It was one or the other. Just like for New Brunswick: we had to pick between fibre optic for our extra-high speed Internet or a good electric network. We had pick the optic, and no we are in a mess... I got recently horrible back pains, like I was going to broke in 2 pieces. I usually got those back pain when I am need of exercise. Working 7 days a week is not easy. But even there, if I manage myself properly, I will find time to walk more. I am not a huge sport fanatic, but just walking a couple of hours per week should do it. Usually, it’s all it takes and the pain goes away.

Anyhow, we are feeling better now. As for our non registered stocks and units portfolio, we close Friday without the 268.95$ gain realize on Friday morning. I am confident we will make other gain. It’s just that right now there’s some stuff going on with Greece but an agreement had been made with the Euro and should help to stabilize the situation. So things are going to be interesting in the next couple of days. We should be able to realize gain and keep them on.

Now that we got involved in different loans, RSP credit line loan, credit lines itself, credit card balance transfer (do we like that stuff or not)… We have some debts to take care off. We won’t be working at paying anything until we reach the 100 000.00$, but until that time, we still have to pay the minimum payments require in order to keep a good credit score to later on ask for more credit or a credit line increase.

Payment on the 10 000$ RSP credit line only begin in May. We have until that time to save some cash in our bank account. The way things are going for now, I should be able to save around 1 000$ per month. By the end of May, I should have an emergency fund of 2 000$. We never been very strong on emergency fund as I always through that in case of need, I would sell some of my investment. We registered to pre-authorized debit for the RSP credit line. We also have pre-authorized debit for CIBC Visa. It’s been working like a charm. Whenever I make a payment in advance, CIBC Visa never came to take any money of my banking account. But it hasn’t been working so well on my credit line at BMO Bank of Montreal. I usually pay my things in advance. Once, I made my payment on my BMO Bank of Montreal credit line in advance. On the same month, on the due date, BMO Bank of Montreal took the same amount out of my bank account. On that month, BMO had been paid twice. I have the proof on paper that this really happen. Wonder what I did after finding out? I simply close my BMO Bank of Montreal banking account. I am done with BMO Bank of Montreal. Shitty service and shitty way to treat employees. My BMO InvestorLine account is also close. I am forever done with BMO Bank of Montreal. Well, almost, because I didn’t close any of the credit products I hold with them. But I don’t plan to use my BMO Bank of Montreal credit card, even if it provides me airmiles. As I wrote previously, business is business. I won’t do business with people being so disrespectful with my financial property. I have a five star credit score and I want things to remain this way. That’s what I call keeping it in control.

Other than that BMO shit, we have a lot to look into. Ok, so for the first time since a very very long time, I will hold a bit more than 2.69$ in savings in my investment portfolio. It’s going to look a bit better than usual! This is not being an emergency fund really, it’s more a protective funds, just to make sure money is there whenever money is being taking out. Because once again, we want to protect our awesome credit. It’s not BMO Bank of Montreal who’s going to ruin everything. And as usual, we are going to kick ass, just like we did when we reach our first 50 000$.

Watch out what a 2 000$ can bring as value for us:

2 000$ (savings) + 86 047.56$ (value in date of March 24) + 4 239.96$ (annual dividend earning) + a gain of 5% on the value of March 24 (4 302.38$)
= 96 589.90$

This is what we could have by the end of 2010 without making any other investment.

Now, when we add 8 000$ in new investments for the period of May-December 2010:

2 000$ (savings) + 86 047.56$ (value in date of March 24) + 4 239.96$ (annual dividend earning) + a gain of 5% on the value of March 24 (4 302.38$) + 8 000$ in new investments + 300$ in new dividends
= 104 889.90$

Did you saw that, we even exceed the 100 000.00$ assets! No matter on which part we take it, the plan work!

Nice, but at this point, keeping track of my expenses is really important because I don’t plan t conduct any job search for now and I don’t plan to work more than I am working right now, reason behind being serious back pain. Someone from BMO is an expert with voodoo dolls lol.

I am not making that of a salary right now, but I spend a lot of money on coffees, DVD renting, eating out, movies… It’s very sad, but the upcoming weeks are going to nice and tough, just the way we like it lol. Reason why: there going to be a lot less spending and a lot more money in our pocket. I am not a huge spender, but when I see 400$ in spending in less than a month on my credit card: there’s a problem. We can reduce that 400$ to a 200$ very easily, just by keeping it in control. It’s just something I need to be aware of. And it’s a resolution we are taking starting tomorrow. The hardest is going to be to cut the coffees. In the past, I set myself some no coffees week without too much trouble. We should be doing alright.

Wonder how looks our budget now? It’s looking rough and tough!

It’s looking like this:

Rent: 545$
Internet: 35$
Metro pass: 70$
Bank line of credit #1: 100$
Bank line of credit #2: 125$
Credit cards balance transfer #1: 100$
Credit cards balance transfer #2: 150$
Student loan: 100$
Groceries and other: 200$
Total: 1 425$

At 200$ for groceries and other, there will be not that much spending! It’s going to be awful, but this how life goes on. We make it happen before; we are going to make it again.

Don’t worry, we can count on our dividend cash from Canadian dividend paying units, who will soon become Canadian dividend paying stocks.

Its not a bad thing after all that Pembina Pipeline Income Fund (PIF.UN) suspend its DRIP. Starting April, it won’t be possible to earn extra units out of PIF.UN. This month, we earned 53.69$ in dividend from Pembina Pipeline. Starting April, we will received a bit more than 53.69$ in dividend (meaning cash!!) from PIF.UN.

Dividend = Cash

We currently earn each month cash from different .UN invesments because we don’t own enough of unit to benefit from the DRIP. They are:

Bell Aliant Regional Communications Income Fund (BA.UN): 24.17$
Davis + Henderson Income Fund (DHF.UN): 15.33$
Pengrowth Energy Trust (PGF.UN): 7.42$

Once those will be convert into corporation, I am really going to miss the joy of receiving dividend every single months of the year!

If we calculate PIF.UN, BA.UN, DHF.UN and PGF.UN dividend all together… it make the fantatsic amount of 100.61$!

1 425$ (monthly expenses) – 100.61$ (amount of dividend earn in cash)
= 1 324.39$

This is just a little example, but it’s giving a taste of the magic of dividend: free money, that we desperately need.

And how about a gain of 268.95$ instead?

My non registered stocks and units investment portfolio is now at 48 371.86$... It’s keep adding up, increasing…This represent a gain of 268.95$ compare to March 24…It’s even more than the gain realize just yesterday.

Too bad Just Energy Income Fund (JE.UN) had to decrease at 14.18$, when I purchased 200 units at 14.29$ and 100 units at 14.30$ this last Friday... However, some other companies are « jumping ». They are: Yellow Pages Income Fund (YLO.UN), now at 6.22$, Bank of Nova Scotia (BNS) is ALMOST at 52$.... Great surprise with Enbridge Income Fund (ENF.UN) who exceed the 13$ per unit. I say surprise but hey, this is a Derek Foster pick! So we shouldn’t be surprise with this increase at all! All increase are welcome of course.

Currently, Enbridge Income Fund (ENF.UN) is at a fantastic 13.26$!! I hope the day continue like this. If so, I am going to update again the whole thing… Doesn’t look like it, but updating my portfolio always is taking me a good hour, if not an hour an a half each time. Busy Friday.

A gain of 203.24$ in my stocks & units investment portfolio

I am quite exciting on how well things are going! My only regret is to see that poor woman at the name of Ann Coulter making a fool of herself in Canadian territory. All the people I take to about it agree: Ann Coulter is a poor foolish writer, Republican, and all what happen at the University of Ottawa had giving Ann Coulter a good press coverage and it’s a shame. First, the woman is against Muslims and gays. She said in a press conference: "How did Canada go from being the country that sends us all our best comedians to a bunch of whining, crying babies that can’t take a joke?" Muslims and gay rights, among other, are not a joke. It’s not something anyone had the right to make fun of. Canada is a country of integrity. Ann Coulter makes a living by selling books. What happen at the University of Ottawa is giving her free press: see, I am actually talking about her on my blog right now!

But I feel powerless, very irritating to see Ann Coulter wanted to be well-treated in Canada. Ann Coulter won’t be well-treated in Canada because most of Canadians are for civil rights, are Muslims and gay friendly. Best thing that can possibly happen at the University of Calgary: I hope she’ll be giving her speech in front of an empty theatre. Shame at the University of Calgary, the University of Ottawa and the institution of London Ontario to have invite Ann Coulter for a speech. Also, shame at the editor of the National Post who had published an email send by a senior administrator of the University of Ottawa send to Ann Coulter. This is all a big mess and Ann Coulter is taking advantage of it. I never heard about Ann Coulter before the Ottawa events. But when I read about Ann Coulter and learn more about her, I just had one thing on mind: the bitch is better to leave Barack Obama alone! Its all I have to say about Ann Coulter. If you are not aware of Ann Coulter and what happen at the University of Ottawa, you can google Ann Coulter University of Ottawa and you’ll see by yourself… Ann Coulter is a blond freak. Should she never come to Montreal or she will receive exactly the same treatment she had received in Ottawa.

As for now, my stocks and units investment portfolio (non registered one) is currently at a very awesome 48 306.15$, a gain of 203.24$ compare to… only yesterday! I don’t even earn that much money in one day of work right now! All gain, as little as they are, all good and welcome. At this point, my investment life is much much interesting because I had reached the amount of richness I never expected to have of my life. I realize this today, as I was working… lol. I can definitively “feel” the portfolio taking form… Can you feel it too? lol… My good and bad investments experience (and bad work experience at BMO Bank of Montreal) allow me to appreciate my money even more and I can now see clearly exactly where I am going. Straight to the point as always.

So things are getting pretty hot in my investment portfolio. Yesterday, I went through this calculation:

86 047.56$ (total) in assets + 4 239.96$ in annual dividend income
= 90 287.52$

Wow…… 90 287.52$. Isn’t that awesome?

Ok, yes, I have 36 585.03$ in debts, but my yearly dividend cover the cost of the interest rate on the money I borrow. At 36 585.03$ in debts, I am not in the deep red. Well, I do not considered myself as being in the deep red, struggling with debt problems. So check this out:

4 239.96$ (amount earn in annual dividend income) – 1 775.20$ (amount of the interest generate on my 36 585.03$ debt)
= 2 464.76$

Very very good!

The key is to have enough money to cover the minimum loan payment due each month. At this point, I have no problem. Everything is under control. At least for now lol...

Hope that sharing my experience will help other to believe that the dream is possible.

If you want my point of view, BMO Bank of Montreal and Ann Coulter are looking pretty bad right now. What do you think?