Portfolio Update: April 6th

    I have been making quite a few purchases of late and realized that its been quite some time since I last posted a portfolio update post, the last one being at the end of January, woops! So here is the status of my portfolio as of April 6th. 

Company	Ticker	Shares	Current Price	Book Value	Market Value	% P/L	Est. Yearly Div's	Portfolio %
Algonquin Power	TSE:AQN	370	$9.72	$3,181	$3,596	13.06%	$144.67	14%
Bank of Nova Scotia	TSE:BNS	46	$63.14	$2,901	$2,904	0.12%	$125.12	11%
BCE	TSE:BCE	60	$53.70	$3,102	$3,222	3.87%	$156.00	12%
BMO Cdn. Div ETF	TSE:ZDV	33	$17.41	$606	$575	-5.19%	$23.76	2%
Dream REIT	TSE:D.UN	85	$27.12	$2,393	$2,305	-3.67%	$190.74	9%
RioCan REIT	TSE:REI.UN	80	$29.45	$2,278	$2,356	3.42%	$112.80	9%
Ntl. Bank of Canada	TSE:NA	6	$46.47	$267	$279	4.43%	$12.00	1%
Pembina Pipeline	TSE:PPL	23	$40.73	$960	$937	-2.40%	$40.02	4%
Pizza Pizza Corp.	TSE:PZA	140	$14.27	$1,970	$1,998	1.41%	$112.06	8%
Royal Bank of Canada	TSE:RY	40	$77.07	$2,998	$3,083	2.83%	$123.20	12%
Suncor	TSE:SU	20	$38.72	$862	$774	-10.16%	$22.40	3%
Toronto Dominion Bank	TSE:TD	44	$54.10	$2,348	$2,380	1.38%	$89.76	9%
Veresen	TSE:VSN	98	$16.57	$1,708	$1,624	-4.93%	$97.96	6%
						Total Yearly Dividends	$1,250.49
						2014 Div's Recieved	$393.59
						2015 Div's Recieved	$162.30
				$25,574	$26,033			100%
					Current Return	1.80%
					Weighted Avg	4.01%

    Like I mentioned, there has been a lot of recent purchases due to some cash being made available to me, on condition of it being invested(Perfect!). If you've followed my general spending habits in my monthly Income & Expenses posts then you'd probably have a pretty good picture of how I prefer to save my money and have it work for me instead of buying things I do not need, and wouldn't use much. So having a condition of investing it isnt much of a condition at all for me :)

   With that being said, I have made posts on the recent buys of AQN and RY. My other purchases that you can see are BNS, TD, BCE, REI.UN, PZA and I am going to deploy the leftover cash and some incoming dividends into a few more shares of the ETF ZDV.Over the next week or so I am looking forward to posting more in-depth about why I went with those buys over others that were on my big February Watchlist.

    Since the last update my portfolio has grown by 103%, most of which is from the cash contribution, but also from dividends and the TSX and oil prices recovering, or should I say stabilizing above $40/barrel.