I am now at 147 145.43$

Which mean I am only missing 2 854.57$ before hitting the 150k! This weekend, I wanted to update my portfolio because of recent changes. but I never taught I was going to make some huge gains without any other fund being add. No new money had been add in, but some changes had been made.

Highlights on recent portfolio changes

I had been holding more than 3 000$ in the RBC O’Shaughnessy Canadian Equity Fund for quite some time. I was holding my RBC O’Shaughnessy Canadian Equity Fund units in the TFSA. I decided to sell the units and cash in the cash outside the TFSA. The sell was made very quickly and the next morning, the money was available in my chequing account. After what, I decided to invest in 200 stocks of Colabor Group Inc. (GCL) and 200 stocks of Student Transportation (STB).

Also, I don't know if you have notice, but my Maritime Life Trimark Europlus Seg Fund had now become Manulife GIF MLIA B World Invest. The Maritime Life Trimark Europlus Seg Fund.

Again with RBC, I had a 1 000$ GIC in my RRSP that arrives on its due date. That was a 1 000$ of 3 years that didn't generate any money: 0$! That GIC was link to the TSX index. It was a major deception to learn that my GIC did not generate any income. But guess what? From now on, I will no longer invest in GIC.

I invest the 1 000$ in the RBC Global Precious Metals Fund. Within a week, the investment provided me a gain of 27.38$! Much better! Eventually, I will proceed with some other changes in my RRSP holding.

Following those changes, my portfolio gain 1 864.30$, despite the TSX closing at 13 791.85 points (-49.49).

Good news as well for my Internet income which is slowly going up! Thanks for your support! I should received a 145$ payment for the month of January. I also begin to use Swagbucks a bit more. Each time I reach 700 points (by mostly using the Swagbucks search online and by watching their videos in my free time). I am now at more than 1000 points. For each trench of 700 points, I qualify to a 5$ payout... Not much, but Swagbucks is fun to use and there's also plenty of prizes other than cash that can be order. Swagbucks is free to join. I hope to be able to reach the 200$ in online income soon... 

My stock investment portfolio on date of February 4, 2011

Savings:
1 276.27$

Non registered Investments:
Stocks and Units investment portfolio
Sprott Inc. (SII): 9 164.19$
Timminco (TIM): 102$
Blue Note Mining (BNT): 48$
Bank of Nova Scotia (BNS): 6 237.03$
Hanwei Energy Services (HE): 120$
Methanex Corporation (MX): 2 884$
Fortis (FTS): 3 752.49$
Pembina Pipeline Corporation (PPL):
9 681.88$
Just Energy Group Inc. (JE): 11 988.48$
Yellow Media Inc. (YLO): 2 923.20$
Bell Aliant Inc. (BA): 5 485.06$
Pengrowth Energy Corporation (PGF): 2 687.84$
Enbridge Income Fund Holdings Inc. (ENF): 5 649.60$
Corby Distilleries Limited (CDL.A): 3 466.32$
Davis + Henderson Corporation (DH):
4 191.50$
Premium Brands Holdings Corporation (PBH):
3 147.04$
EnCana Corporation (ECA): 6 367.68$
Sprott Physical Silver Trust UTS (PHS.U): 2 600$
iShares S&P/TSX Capped REIT Index (XRE): 2 145.22$
Horizons Gold Yield Fund (HGY.UN): 1 960$
Canfor Pulp Products Inc. (CFX): 1 570$
Financial 15 Split Corp. (FTN): 1 020$
New Flyer Industries Inc. (NFI.UN): 2 316$
Superior Plus Corp. (SPB): 2 396$
Capital Power Income L.P. (CPA.UN): 1 950$
Exchange Income Corporation (EIF): 1 960$
Rogers Sugar Inc. (RSI): 1 683$
Student Transportation (STB): 1 330$
Colabor Group Inc. (GCL): 2 354$
Cash: 272.66$

TOTAL: 101 453.39$

Tax-free savings account (TFSA):
EnerCare Inc. (ECI): 3 150.08$
Dumont Nickel Inc. (DNI): 359.38$
Cash: 7.79$

TOTAL: 3 517.25$

RSP investment portfolio:
Sprott Canadian Equity Fund: 7 505.85$
Claymore Gold Bullion ETF (CGL): 4 103.32$
EnCana Corporation (ECA): 3 168$
Emera Incorporated (EMA): 6 596.12$
Cash: 87.06$

CIBC Dividend Growth Fund: 575.42$
CIBC Emerging Markets Index Fund: 411.16$
CIBC Monthly Income Fund: 1 096.82$

Energy and Base Metals Term Savings (Indexed term savings):
503.46$
Natural Resources Term Savings (Indexed term savings):
502.06$

GIC National Bank: 1 251.85$
GIC Plus TD: 500$

TD Canadian Bond: 117.29$
TD Monthly Income: 113.90$
TD Emerging Markets: 87.09$
TD Energy: 101.37$
TD Precious Metals: 145.01$
TD Latin American Growth: 99.61$
TD Entertainment and Communications: 127.66$
TD Dividend Growth: 216.78$
TD U.S. Mid-Cap Growth: 120.36$

Maritime Life International Equity Fund
(Templeton): 684.37$
Manulife Simplicity Growth Portfolio: 945.38$
Maritime Life CI Harbour Seg Fund: 1 128.40$
Maritime Life Fidelity True North Seg Fund:
1 114.89$
Manulife GIF MLIA B World Invest: 661.72$

Great-West – various: 1 834.72$

RBC Canadian Dividend Fund: 568.21$
RBC U.S. Mid-Cap Equity Fund C$: 2 065.46$
RBC Global Resources Fund: 1 317.83$
RBC O'Shaughnessy International Equity Fund: 689.28$
RBC O'Shaughnessy All-Canadian Equity
Fund: 1 241.41$
RBC Global Precious Metals Fund: 1 027.38$

TOTAL: 40 708.74$

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

Savings + Stocks, units, mutual funds + Tax-
free Savings account + RRSP + Online Income
(149.78$):
147 145.43$

Welcome Student Transportation (STB), 200 stocks of STB in my portfolio

Recently, I invested in 200 stocks of Student Transportation (STB) following the advice of a reader. Ok, I stop you right here. It is not like its seemed. I am not going to invest in something just because I am being told by someone who supposedly read my blog that this or that investment is good. I invest in what I find interesting, whatever I believe can be a nice fit to my portfolio. And in this case, Student Transportation (STB) is a nice fit for my portfolio.

I did not regret my move. Since the time I initially invested in Student Transportation (STB) , I made an interesting gain of 88$. And Student Transportation (STB) is an interesting company if, like me, your looking for something really safe to invest in. Funny thing to say knowing that there's never safe investment when it come to stock, but I am now in my fourth year of stock investment, I am able to say that despite a stock market crash like the one live in 2008, a good diversification of asset is the key to keep it safe. It's the reason why that now more than ever, I am still investing in stocks. There's good money to be made on the stock market.

Ever dream to own a school bus? lol... Well, here's your chance to own part of a school bus...

Because yes, as it's name suggest it, Student Transportation (STB) is provider of school bus transportation services. Student Transportation (STB) was formely name Student Transportation of America Ltd.

Lou Schizas and Darcy Keith, both from the Globe and Mail had gave a positive review of Student Transportation (STB).

As for my part, I was amaze by the company. Ok, at first, a company doing business in the field of school bus can be seem as boring. But it's trully not. Because belive it or not, school bus is a business activity like any other one. Student Transportation Inc. (STI) is affordable (less than 7$ per stock at this time) and provide an excellent dividend yield to its investor.

I even received an email from a representative of Student Transportation Inc. (STI), which I find very kind of them.

If I am writing all this, it,s not only because I am very please about the email thing, it's because just like me, I want you to be able to enjoy the benefit of investing in a company like Student Transportation Inc. (STI). Reliable company, stable, willing to extend their business, affordable and good dividend yield. You will get all that with Student Transportation Inc. (STI). Student Transportation Inc. (STI) pay to their investors an excellent dividend yield of 8.171%. Student Transportation Inc. (STI) dividend is being paid on a monthly basis. The monthly distribution amount is of 0.046 cents per stock.

You can follow Student Transportation Inc. (STI) on Facebook and visit their Web site right here.