A review of 2009
In the past year my non-registered investments have increased an astounding 76%. Note that this includes both dividends that are re-invested and an aggressive push in March and April to invest. At that point I was holding approximately 0% cash and fully invested in the market. I made the decision to invest for two reasons: 1. I'm invested for the long haul 2. I had a feeling that the market had bottomed. You could say that I pretty much went all in. Since hitting the bottom in April, I haven't made a huge push. I'm currently holding about 25% in cash so that I am ready to pounce when I find anything worth buying. Some of my recent purchases in December include: BOLT, RCI.B, GRVY I'm investing in stocks that are arguably deep value and stocks that pay a generous dividend. RCI.B as beat up really badly after the announcement of Globalive's WIND mobile. I will talk more about my decisions to purchase GRVY and BOLT in a future post. For now I'll just say tha