 Alright guys, welcome back to the Independent Investor Channel. I think it's important for investors that have been investing for a while and have evolved with their own program as well as new investors understand what the options are out there. The investing opportunity has changed immensely with the ability to invest for free. The ability to enter into certain stocks for partial share purchases, and the ability to invest across a dynamic pie, the way that M1 Finance allows you to do this. In this video, I'm going to drop you guys into my dividend growth portfolio. It's comprised of 71 holdings. 61 of them are up. 10 are actually just marginally in the red right now. So I'm going to go over the full list for you. You're going to find this to be extremely valuable because for most people, they don't know what strategy they want to deploy and they really don't know what kind of investor profile they want to fill. But this can absolutely deliver the products in way of stock investing in a way that has never been possible before. So with that guys will kick you into the account and we'll conduct the review. Welcome everybody into the M1 Finance account here. This is somewhat exploratory. A lot of you guys will find a lot of value in this in that I find that there's a lot of people who are interested in single stock. Unfortunately, being interested in single stock can sometimes put people over allocated in way too few of stocks and it moves away from the idea of ample diversification within your portfolio. M1 Finance allows you to invest what you want in the names that you want. Okay, so for example, in this portfolio, I've got 71 positions here and I've changed my philosophy a little bit on what it means to take advantage of the M1 Finance opportunity at least from this perspective. I have just here recently read a few articles again coming back to the fact that retail investors are too stupid to succeed on their own. 61 of these holdings are up right now. Okay, 10 of them are actually down in value and there is only one that's just over 10% down and that's next Tara that takes the cake for the biggest down name in this portfolio. But I've got some on the upside 61 of these holdings are in the green. So not too bad from a percentage perspective. I would beg to differ and argue with anybody that says that a retail investor can't succeed in stock market investing and that we need to crawl to the services of a financial planner. I guess I'm just breaking the mold for people out there who maybe want to buy into that they're going to continue to push that propaganda because there's always going to be people out there that don't believe that they've got what it takes to invest in stock market investing. But as we start to creep through this, these are some serious gains here. Now, you know, a lot of these are 234, you know, eight share positions, nothing too crazy. Some of them are partial share positions like this one in Broadcom where I've got just less than one share, right? The whole idea here is to grab exposure to these companies that I want to own. A lot of these are just great companies. I mean the top I've got 12345 the first top five or Dow components, right? So, you know, these are these are it's a great way to grab exposure. I didn't I don't get too cute with this. These are all big established companies. I'm a value investor at heart, but I can't own the entire stock market. With that said, M1 Finance really allows you to go out there and grab some broad exposure and put your dollars to work in a capacity that, you know, you may not want to put big positions in these stocks. You may just want to have some shares in them. And that's good enough. But if you start to look at some of these up over 20% in Goldman Sachs, you know, on an average price here of 303 a share cost basis less than than 500, and the current value up over $600 for a 22% return, not not too bad. And this is what I'm talking about when I look I know how good of a company Goldman Sachs is been around forever. Very well established global business fantastic financial company and this just adds to the the the financial sector that I have in my total overall portfolio. Right. It's just another arm of the portfolio that adds to the financial element. And right below it, one of the largest insurers in the business here with travelers company, another Dow component, I might add nice up nicely up over 8% and you start to think, Well, you know, shoot, this is incredible, you know, on an aggregate, you know, these aren't rendering that much return in real dollars. Okay, this is just over $43. But when you start to add these up one after another, you can really start to understand the method to my madness and that I'm getting broad exposure in some capacity to some of these companies. Excuse me that that, you know, I may not be able to hold large positions in in any one given name. So I buy them all and in one finance allows us to do that. So here as we breeze through the list here, you can see here the majority are green. Like I said, I queued up the statistics for you guys 61 total holdings here are up and we've got 10 that are down just I mean if it's in the red I counted it as a down here only down a couple percent look I can live through that Intel's going to come back eventually I would find that in a conducive market most of these are going to return to the green anyway but at the time of filming this video for transparency I really just wanted to show you the granular nature of performance within each of these holdings. These are all fantastic companies I don't screw around with my investing opportunity. These are all companies that I may in some capacity or another own in the portfolio, but the majority of them I don't. Right. So you can see some names here that I grabbed some exposure to here in AT&T here in some Canadian banks as well so pretty cool. And then in the energy space I mean I would have never thought I would have been up 25% you know had I thought that that was the case I would have put a larger position on it but stock market picking is very very difficult to do. So sometimes when you have high conviction on a name and you enter a big position in it and it doesn't work out for you those can be really damaging to the portfolio. So what this allows you to do is it allows you to enter into some positions here from a broad perspective and you're going to win some and obviously some aren't going to work out very well at the time I bought next era. I was actually very very bullish on this position but look we've digressed and we've come back about 10% in the name here. But Charles Schwab look at that performance up over 30% you know got a couple shares of it nothing to shake a stick at and again on an aggregate these real dollar amounts that are returned in the portfolio are quite impressive and I would challenge anybody out there that wants to really be down on the retail investor and say that it's impossible. For a retail investor to win at investing I beg to differ and I don't believe that I've broke the mold I really don't I believe that my strategy is very very simple very very scalable. The majority of these if not in its totality if you reviewed this list of companies that I'm scrolling down for you guys this is basically a 71 stock pick portfolio roll out for you guys. I think you'll find that you're very very familiar if not familiar with all of these names that I'm throwing out there to you guys I'm not trying to reinvent I'm not trying to out think investing here. I'm just trying to grab exposure to those best companies out there that I know are going to grow their businesses over time and reward shareholders by paying that dividend. Back to the shareholders that own these fine companies so with that guys will conclude the video and we'll kick you back thank you so much for joining me on this portfolio review here. 61 of them are up 10 or down will continue to monitor this as we as we roll out these portfolio reviews for you guys thanks a ton. Alright fantastic guys so we've come out of the M one finance dividend growth portfolio hope you appreciated us rolling these out periodically for you guys I will share the portfolio for you guys in the description below. So you can use it as a template to break down the sectors in a manner that I have that helps a lot to be able to provide some structure to new investors free of charge if you want the information it's there. And just looking to empower one investor at a time by showing multiple strategies, all of which work in the market, looking to align all those different investors out there that are going to take their own independent approach to investing and helping them along the way to financial success if you enjoy what you got coming through the channel and the independent investor. I would invite you to subscribe to the channel hit the notification bell of your comments at the bottom of the video. And most importantly, you need to share this message with anybody out there that you know is interested in getting involved with or finding out more information about the stock market opportunity, it couldn't be a better time to be an investor and now is the time to share it with those folks. 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