Random thoughts from Taiwan & Hong Kong
Thanks to work, I’m over in Asia again. To be more specific I’m spending a week in Taiwan with a quick day trip to Hong Kong on the second day of my trip. This marks …
Tawcan is a Canadian personal finance and dividend investing blog that chronicles my quest for financial independence and joyful life.
I started this blog to show it is possible to achieve financial independence as a single-income family with two young kids while living in Vancouver Canada, one of the most expensive cities in the world.
My wife and I started building our dividend portfolio in 2011 after a financial epiphany.
Today, the portfolio generates over $4,000 in dividends per month. Our dream is to become financially independent and live off dividends by 2025.
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13 Best Canadian Dividend Stocks for 2023
Mrs. T and I are working toward financial independence by investing in dividend stocks and index ETFs. Our plan is to live off dividends so we are always on the lookout for great dividend stocks …
Dividend Income – April 2023 Update
It’s time for one of my favourite topics to write – monthly dividend income update! For those of you that are new, we became very focused on dividend growth investing strategy in 2011 after reading …
Does it make sense to invest US dividend stocks in TFSA?
Many Canadian investors know there’s a 15% withholding tax on US dividends. You can avoid this costly withholding tax if you hold US dividend stocks inside your RRSP, as there is absolutely no tax levied …
Best ETFs in Canada – Building wealth via ETF investing
While I write a lot of articles about dividend growth investing, in reality, we are hybrid investors. We invest in both individual dividend stocks and index ETFs. Generally speaking, I believe most Canadian investors, especially …
The Best Preferred Share ETFs in Canada
If you look at our dividend portfolio, you’ll notice that we only hold common shares that pay dividends. A few readers have emailed me and asked why we don’t hold any preferred shares to take …
XEQT Review – An iShares All-Equity ETF Analysis
A while ago, I wrote a VEQT review where I performed a thorough and deep analysis of the Vanguard All-Equity ETF. While I really like VEQT, we ended up buying XEQT for our kids’ RESPs …