pension envy?
Not you, no way!
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As a dividend growth investor, you have hacked the code on a secure steady stream of retirement income. Nicely done!
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And if you are like us, yo do it on your own (DIY... get it?)! Why give away your hard-earned cash and some of your glorious yield to a financial 'advisor'? Why pay for a service you can easily and safely do for yourself? You don't need no stinking financial advisor!
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Because you know - only you will take care of your money like it's your money - because it is.
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Now the questions is... how do you crush your dividend growth investing game?
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We are here to welcome you to a secret club - a league of extraordinary Canadians who stealthily build a rock solid portfolio of super performing Canadian Dividend Growth stocks using only two simple tools:
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Your brokerage account - to buy and sell DGI stocks
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Your diVinci account - to map and monitor your DGI portfolio
Become a DIY Dividender and get access to the free course!
about us
Once upon a time, in an Ontario town not far from here, the heroines of this story survived a stressful market downturn (anyone remember 2009?) and some painful life lessons (like losing the lavish fees they were paying so-called advisors!).
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When they met, our heroines found they shared a voracious drive to learn and a growing belief that they could profitably invest their own money – because only they would take care of their money like it’s their money. Because it is.
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So they said farewell to their financial advisors (sayonara f**kers!) and never looked back. OK, that sounds more dramatic than it was but this is our story, so we get to tell it our way!​​
We started researching. And we invested. Yeah, we made mistakes but we had more wins than losses and we uncovered a system that perfectly suits the individual investor looking for secure, growing retirement income.
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We cross-referenced what we were learning with some of the best minds in investing (Warren Buffett, Benjamin Graham, John Heinzl, Tom Connolly) and, by gawd, we were on to something powerful enough to withstand Canadian winters and all the mayhem of today’s stock market (insert trumpet music here!) – Dividend Growth Investing.
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Over the last 15 years, we searched from the Pacific all the way to the Atlantic and back again for information on how to be smart and safe Canadian dividend growth investors.
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We found lots on the what but not much on the how. And so the diVinci app was born – a tool built specifically by Canadian DGI investors for Canadian DGI investors. Because without the how, the what is useless as beaver shit. OK, we don’t really say beaver shit in Canada, but we should!
"there seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.”
- Warren Buffet
the application - diVinci
Inconceivable! A tool totally dedicated to your DIY dividend growth investing.
We couldn’t find one anywhere so we designed and built diVinci, the world’s first, foremost, and fabulous (ahem, if we may say so ourselves) application for Canadian DIY Dividenders.
diVinci is the one and only tool you need to map and monitor your DIY DGI goals and portfolio in a one-stop-shop – no more fiddling around with multiple websites and confusing spreadsheets and no more manual calculation of anything. That’s right, diVinci does all the math!
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The only thing you’ll do outside of diVinci is execute trades, in your preferred brokerage, based on the plan you’ve designed and using the superior insights in diVinci.
diVinci will help you easily and quickly:
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Predict income by running scenarios for your target income based on time, yield, and savings.
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Compare Canadian DGI stocks from the DIY Dividender list and identify which ones meet your buy/sell criteria – all the critical financial information is consolidated and updated in real-time on one easy-to-read page.
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Report on your portfolio on-demand and see at a glance what you are making (annual and quarterly income), what you’re invested in (allocation by sector), and what your return is (current yield).
Say sayonara to outdated and disconnected spreadsheets, lagging information, and time-wasting data entry. And say hello to your new best friend, diVinci!
the course
New to DIY DGI?
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It's simple and straight-forward — if you can spell ‘retirement‘, you can do this!
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We know how daunting it can be to take control of your money. We’ve been where you are and we can guess how you feel. Nervous! Afraid! Freaked out!
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To help you get over all that and start building your beefy retirement income, we offer the DIY: Design Your 6-Figure Retirement! course. Simple as A-B-C. Easy as 1-2-3.
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It’s not the Vulcan Mind-Meld (that’s not real, Trekkie!), but it’s the next best thing — learning with real, live people who have been where you are and who use this investment strategy every day.
In the DIY: Design Your 6-Figure Retirement! course, you learn:
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About the most powerful and safest income-generating engine of the market — dividend growth stocks.
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Why it is so sweet to be a Canadian dividend growth investor.
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How to build a secure portfolio step-by-step through marvellously mundane and steady stocks that pay you more and more every year.
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How to use tools and principles developed over years of investing this way.
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What makes a dynamite and delightful dividend growth stock and how to select the best ones to power up your portfolio.
Let us show you how to power up your portfolio, grow the hell out of it, and retire when you damn well want!
resources
We didn’t make this up. Dividend growth investing has been quietly working in the background for as long as there has been a stock market.
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Why, you ask – if it is so great, why so quiet? The thing is, Wall Street, financial advisors, and brokers don’t want you to know about it. Because if you invest this way, they don’t make any money… you do.
Here are some of the resources (purely Canadian!) we’ve learned from and some of the compadres we follow. From these smart dudes, we’ve distilled the best and simplest way to invest for dividend growth. To learn more, click HERE.
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The Connolly Report – Published by Tom Connolly for the last 40 years – the site has a wealth (literally) of invaluable information about dividend growth investing, why it should be the cornerstone of your retirement strategy, plus decades of proof that it works.
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Yield Hog – Written by John Heinzl for the Globe and Mail. You can also follow John on Twitter. @johnheinzl
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Dividend Growth Investing and Retirement – Popular investment blog and home of the monthly Canadian Dividend Allstars list.
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Canadian Dividend Investor – A website with many free resources for dividend investors.
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The Lazy Investor by Derek Foster
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Your Ever Growing Income by Henry Mah, CMA. You can follow Henry on Twitter. @henrymah18
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The Investment Zoo by Stephen A. Jarislowsky
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The Single Best Investment: Creating Wealth and Dividend Growth by Lowell Miller (get the PDF here).