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The Most Important Thing To Know If You're Using Stocks As Fixed Income
Jeffrey Dow Jones • Fri, May 17 • 43 Comments
Ignoring Buybacks Can Be A Costly Mistake For Yield Starved Investors
Minyi Chen • Thu, May 9 • 7 Comments
Buyback ETF Outperforming The Market
Tom Lydon • Mon, May 6 • 1 Comment
A Review Of The Long-Term Benefits Of Diversification
David Hunkar • Sun, May 5
Dividend Growth Models Update: Dividend Aristocrat+ Gainers And Decliners
Jeff Paul • Fri, May 3 • 28 Comments
SIZE: A Lower Volatility Mid Cap Fund
Everyday Finance • Mon, Apr 22 • 1 Comment
Dividend Stock ETFs: Trading Growth For Yield
Jim Pyke • Sun, Apr 21 • 7 Comments
More On SDY: Better Than A Mutual Fund?
Mark Piro • Sat, Apr 20 • 23 Comments
Dividend Stocks Hitting Highs; What Income Investors Should Do
Kraken • Thu, Apr 18 • 3 Comments
The Attractiveness Of PIMCO Strategic Global Government Fund RCS As An Investment Option
Mark Piro • Thu, Apr 18 • 10 Comments
Cashing In With Dividend Stock ETFs
Jim Pyke • Wed, Apr 17 • 8 Comments
Low Volatility And Yield Are Outperforming - 5 Top Rated Selections With Both
Richard Shaw • Wed, Apr 17 • 16 Comments
5 Reasons Why I Am Shorting The Market
Brennan Basnicki • Tue, Apr 16 • 367 Comments
State Street Dividend ETF Focuses On Steady Payers
Tom Lydon • Mon, Apr 15
5 Dividend Aristocrats With Highest Short- And Long-Term Revenue Growth Rates
Richard Shaw • Fri, Apr 12 • 6 Comments
Investors Play Defense With Dividend ETFs
Tom Lydon • Thu, Apr 11 • 1 Comment
5 Best And 5 Worst Dividend Stocks Over 5 Days And Today
Richard Shaw • Thu, Apr 11 • 17 Comments
This S&P 500 Rally Does Not Have Good Legs
Richard Shaw • Wed, Apr 10 • 39 Comments
SDY: Favorite ETF For The Next Decade
Mark Piro • Tue, Apr 9
How To Be Protected Before The Next Market Crash
Kurtis Hemmerling • Sun, Apr 7 • 34 Comments

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Dividend Stock ETFs: Trading Growth For Yield
Jim Pyke • Sun, Apr 21 • 7 Comments
More On SDY: Better Than A Mutual Fund?
Mark Piro • Sat, Apr 20 • 23 Comments
Dividend Stocks Hitting Highs; What Income Investors Should Do
Kraken • Thu, Apr 18 • 3 Comments
SDY: Favorite ETF For The Next Decade
Mark Piro • Tue, Apr 9
An ETF That Tracks Consistent Dividend Payers
Tom Lydon • Fri, Mar 8 • 3 Comments
Dividend Aristocrats Vs. Select Dividend Index
Ploutos • Tue, Mar 5 • 8 Comments
Dividend Aristocrat Investing 2013
Ploutos • Mon, Feb 25 • 27 Comments
SDY: One Good ETF For The Dividend Investor
David Zanoni • Thu, Feb 21 • 3 Comments
The Most Important Question For A Correction
Michael A. Gayed • Wed, Feb 20 • 3 Comments
A Do-It-Yourself System For Dividend Investors
Kurtis Hemmerling • Wed, Nov 7, 2012 • 53 Comments
Automatically Diversify And Collect Dividends With One Ticker
David Zanoni • Mon, Sep 3, 2012 • 16 Comments
Why We Should All Stop Talking About 'Dividend Stock' Valuations
Skyler Greene • Tue, Aug 7, 2012 • 43 Comments
Are Dividend Stocks Overvalued?
Ploutos • Wed, Aug 1, 2012 • 5 Comments
High Dividends, Inferior Returns
Alan Brochstein • Mon, Jul 23, 2012 • 20 Comments
Dividend Aristocrat Investing
Ploutos • Thu, May 10, 2012 • 11 Comments
3 Dividend ETFs For Investors To Consider
David Urban • Tue, Jan 24, 2012 • 3 Comments
SPDR Dividend ETF Receives Warm Reception In Europe
Tom Lydon • Wed, Nov 2, 2011
Dividends: Key To Long-Term Portfolio Success (Without Getting Carried Away)
Roger Nusbaum • Tue, Sep 27, 2011 • 34 Comments
Are Dividend-Growth Stocks a Distinct Asset Class?
David Van Knapp • Thu, May 5, 2011 • 108 Comments
Are Institutional Investors Becoming Impatient With Dividend ETFs?
Gary Gordon • Wed, Feb 2, 2011 • 2 Comments

The Most Important Thing To Know If You're Using Stocks As Fixed Income
Jeffrey Dow Jones • Fri, May 17 • 43 Comments
Ignoring Buybacks Can Be A Costly Mistake For Yield Starved Investors
Minyi Chen • Thu, May 9 • 7 Comments
Buyback ETF Outperforming The Market
Tom Lydon • Mon, May 6 • 1 Comment
A Review Of The Long-Term Benefits Of Diversification
David Hunkar • Sun, May 5
Dividend Growth Models Update: Dividend Aristocrat+ Gainers And Decliners
Jeff Paul • Fri, May 3 • 28 Comments
SIZE: A Lower Volatility Mid Cap Fund
Everyday Finance • Mon, Apr 22 • 1 Comment
The Attractiveness Of PIMCO Strategic Global Government Fund RCS As An Investment Option
Mark Piro • Thu, Apr 18 • 10 Comments
Cashing In With Dividend Stock ETFs
Jim Pyke • Wed, Apr 17 • 8 Comments
Low Volatility And Yield Are Outperforming - 5 Top Rated Selections With Both
Richard Shaw • Wed, Apr 17 • 16 Comments
5 Reasons Why I Am Shorting The Market
Brennan Basnicki • Tue, Apr 16 • 367 Comments
State Street Dividend ETF Focuses On Steady Payers
Tom Lydon • Mon, Apr 15
5 Dividend Aristocrats With Highest Short- And Long-Term Revenue Growth Rates
Richard Shaw • Fri, Apr 12 • 6 Comments
Investors Play Defense With Dividend ETFs
Tom Lydon • Thu, Apr 11 • 1 Comment
5 Best And 5 Worst Dividend Stocks Over 5 Days And Today
Richard Shaw • Thu, Apr 11 • 17 Comments
This S&P 500 Rally Does Not Have Good Legs
Richard Shaw • Wed, Apr 10 • 39 Comments
How To Be Protected Before The Next Market Crash
Kurtis Hemmerling • Sun, Apr 7 • 34 Comments
An Income Growth Dividend Portfolio For 2013: 3.9% Yield And 0.70 Beta
Jeff Paul • Fri, Apr 5 • 57 Comments
Surveying The Dividend ETF Landscape
Tom Lydon • Wed, Apr 3 • 1 Comment
Create A High Performance Income Portfolio With 3 Investments
Kevin Quon • Mon, Apr 1 • 4 Comments
Dividend Growth Models Update: Low Beta, High DGR Portfolio Off To A Great Start!
Jeff Paul • Fri, Mar 29 • 52 Comments

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Apple Has a Hit on its Hands; Pitney Bowes Feels the Wrath of Dividend Investors

at CNBC.com (Apr 30, 2013)
Mark Hulbert: Picking a perfect dividend portfolio

at MarketWatch.com (Apr 12, 2013)
Dividends Are Back, and They're Not Going Away

at CNBC.com (Apr 12, 2013)
A Dividend Sweet Spot Most ETFs Are Missing

at CNBC.com (Mar 5, 2013)
J.J. Zhang's Winner Take All: Here’s where you can go to beat U.S. dividends

at MarketWatch.com (Feb 8, 2013)
Weekend Investor: 10 money-making investment ideas for 2013

at MarketWatch.com (Dec 21, 2012)
ETFs for the Dividend Rush

at Fox Business (Dec 6, 2012)
How to Trade the 'Fiscal Cliff' Drama If No Deal Is Reached

at CNBC.com (Nov 16, 2012)
A Smart Start to Retirement Investing

at CNBC.com (Oct 25, 2012)
Jonathan Burton's Life Savings: ‘Fiscal cliff’ tax hike won’t kill dividend income

at MarketWatch.com (Sep 5, 2012)
Weekend Investor: How to dodge the Fed (and get more yield)

at MarketWatch.com (Aug 31, 2012)
Weekend Investor: How to manage volatility as the fiscal cliff looms

at MarketWatch.com (Aug 3, 2012)
Weekend Investor: Dividend-paying stocks worth paying for

at MarketWatch.com (Jun 22, 2012)
Your First Move For Thursday June 21st

at CNBC.com (Jun 20, 2012)
Your First Move For Thursday May 24th

at CNBC.com (May 23, 2012)
Dividends Are Hot!

at CNBC.com (May 16, 2012)
Jim Lowell: Balancing your portfolio for spring

at MarketWatch.com (Apr 2, 2012)
Weekend Investor: Why dividend stocks top TIPS for income investing

at MarketWatch.com (Mar 2, 2012)
Howard Gold's No-Nonsense Investing: Dividend-paying stocks are still the place to be

at MarketWatch.com (Feb 17, 2012)
Dividend Payouts Are Climbing After Plunging to a Record Low

at CNBC.com (Feb 14, 2012)

SDY vs. ETF Alternatives

SDY Description

The SPDR® S&P® Dividend ETF before expenses seeks to closely match the returns and characteristics of the S&P High Yield Dividend AristocratsTM Index. Our approach is designed to provide portfolios with low portfolio turnover, accurate tracking, and lower costs.
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In Your Portfolio: A Guide to Dividend ETFs
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Tuesday, May 14, 12:54 PM The Cambria Shareholder Yield ETF (SYLD) launches - an actively managed fund led by The Ivy Portfolio author Mebane Faber. Income's nice, but don't focus too much on dividends, says Faber, who also adds in share buybacks and debt repayment to create "shareholder yield." Competing dividend ETFs include: VIG, DVY, SDY, VIG, HDV, and DLN. 1 Comment
Monday, April 29, 12:13 PM "Which has a higher P/E - Procter & Gamble (PG) or Google (GOOG)," asks the WSJ's Tom Lauricella. Enthusiasm for anything with yield has driven the P-E ratios of dividend payers (DVY) like P&G maybe way too high. Techs (XLK) with double-digit earnings growth, no debt, and massive cash balances trade at 12x, says MFS' James Swanson, while a utility (XLU) in Ohio is at 16x. "How far do you go with this game?" "Pretty far," says Templeton's Donald Taylor. "The macro environment (causing this) is not at all likely to change anytime soon." 7 Comments [Quick Ideas]
Wednesday, April 17, 1:54 PM "The reach-for-yield forces have strengthened," writes Barclays' Barry Knapp, recommending investors stick with "bond-like" stocks. Stocks geared to global growth have been underperforming since February, he says, and now domestic cyclicals are starting to show pockets of weakness. DVY's total return is about 130 bps greater than the S&P 500 YTD. Comment! [Quick Ideas]
Monday, April 1, 12:23 PM The S&P 500 (SPY) paid out $7.954/share in dividends in Q1, a 12.2% increase from a year ago, wrties Eddy Elfenbein, the 9th consecutive quarter of double-digit gains. As opposed to the last 2 bull markets, stocks and dividends have moved pretty much together, keeping the index's dividend yield right around 2%. 1 Comment
Friday, March 15, 10:13 AM SPDR Dividend ETF (SDY) announces quarterly distribution of $0.3552. 30-day SEC yield of 2.59% (as of 03/14/2013). For shareholders of record Mar. 19. Payable Mar. 25. Ex-div date Mar. 15. Comment! [Dividends]
Friday, March 8, 1:00 PM S&P 500 companies are expected to pay out at least $300B in dividends this year, surpassing 2012's record of $282B. The number could go quite a bit higher depending on what Apple intends to do, and what the largest banks may be allowed to do (though Citi elected not to boost their dividend). DVY +8.1% YTD, not including the 3.4% yield. Comment!
Tuesday, February 19, 9:49 PM All of the slide presentations from IU"s InsideETFs conference are now available. One of interest shows how eligibility requirements on certain dividend indexes will keep out stalwarts like MSFT, IBM, ORCL, INTC, CSCO, and AAPL for years to come even as the same stocks account for significant holdings of other indexes with the name dividend on them. 1 Comment
Tuesday, February 19, 10:29 AM Of the $37.5B of flows into ETFs this year, 92% has gone into stock funds, according to ConvergEx, well above the typical ratio of 65-70%. U.S. stocks garnered the biggest share at 42%, while Japanese ETFs (see WETF) saw 8%. Dividend ETFs (DVY) have received nearly $4B already this year vs. $9B for all of 2012. Previous: "Fear fatigue." Comment!
Monday, February 11, 10:39 AM Stocks outdo bonds as the 1.6K companies in the MSCI World Index yield 2.7% vs. 2.6% on the BAML Global Corporate Index, according to Bloomberg. Yielding just 6.1% the gap of junk bonds over equities is at its lowest since 1995. "Increasingly, dynamic capital allocators are being forced to consider equities," says one bullish strategist. 1 Comment
Monday, January 7, 11:33 AM More on dividend increases: In 2012, 2,883 firms increased their dividends, against 275 lowering their dividends. Forward yield hit an all-time high and actual cash payments increased 18% in 2012. The yield increased throughout 2012 ending flat at 2.80%. The report expects 2013 to be setting another record for regular cash dividends. Comment!
Monday, January 7, 11:16 AM Net dividend increases totaled $8.4B in Q4, according to S&P. 1,262 firms increased their dividends, up 94.5% Y/Y, vs. just 154 lowering. Of more import, the payout ratio remains at 36% against long-term average of 52%. 1 Comment [Dividends]
Sunday, January 6, 8:56 AM While the preferred stock (PFF) led the income pack in 2012 with a total return of 18.2%, the current risk-reward profile isn't great, says Barclays' Shobhit Gupta, with the upside capped by the issuer call option, and significant downside if rates rise. One overlooked class for investors: Convertible Bonds (CWB). Barron's overview of the income sector. 26 Comments [Quick Ideas]
Thursday, January 3, 9:02 AM Dividend stocks are attractive following the Cliff deal, says BlackRock's Russ Koesterich, noting just a modest bump in dividend tax rates affecting just a small ratio of taxpayers. Current low payout ratios give companies ample room to raise payouts. Avoid Treasurys, he says, and focus on credit sectors (HYG, PDI, IVR - just to name a few), and municipals (MUB). 6 Comments [Quick Ideas]
Monday, December 31, 2012, 12:44 PM Breaking down the S&P 500 by dividend yield into 10 groups of 50 stocks each, Bespoke finds the highest yielders (which include a lot of Utilities) at 2012's start were the year's worst performers - falling an average 0.6% vs. the average S&P stock gain of 12%. 2 Comments
Monday, December 17, 2012, 3:54 PM Dividend players have 3 new ETFs to choose from with Northern Trust's FlexShares unit launching 3 self-indexed funds (QDF, QDEF, QDYN). The difference between the three will be in their volatility relative to the base index. Comment! [Quick Ideas]
Thursday, December 13, 2012, 9:08 AM The envelope please ... The winner of the ETP of the year is Invesco's PowerShares S&P 500 Low Volatility Portfolio (SPLV). The trend-setting product has generated a good deal of alpha - total return of 18.3% since May 2011 inception vs. S&P of 9.9% - by holding the lowest volatility stocks. It now has more than $3B in AUM. 1 Comment [Quick Ideas]

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Investors desperately seeking income: Dividend funds breaking out to new highs--$DTD, $VYM, $DON, $VIG, $DVY, $SDY, $DTN, $PEY.
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The Most Important Question For A Correction Feb.20, by: Michael A. Gayed. $SDY $GLD $JJC $SLV $SPY http://bit.ly/Wb3tHX
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See how $DVY, $VIG and $SDY compared for 2012: http://seekingalpha.com/a/ntqn
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Reading: Beware The False God Of The Dividend http://seekingalpha.com/a/l1kt $SDY $VIG $SCHD $DVY $SDIV $DLN
11/7/12
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David Jackson: Thinking about David Merkel's "non-dividend-investor" approach: buy stocks with growth which pay dividends. http://seekingalpha.com/a/fct5
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Why $SDY is lagging the #dividends Aristocrats index: http://seekingalpha.com/a/fu0b
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Kirk Lindstrom
Article about PFF: What is the Best ETF for Dividends? http://bit.ly/IYYJzk $SDY $PFF $SPY $VTI $VTO
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DOO,DEM,DHS, DLN,SDY,DEW, all dividend stocks. The metals are likely to pop, but not time yet. Keep watching Congress and fall.
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SDY PID DVY VIG DTD PFM DES in comparison to some great asset backed REITs & all not created equal TWO ARR NLY AGNC then M&A in BIB GDX REE
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The_American: Watch SLV SIVR PSLV SIL There was an accumulation period. Short & Long term SLV probably most undervalued metal of them ALL Very TVIX HL PAL
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Investors desperately seeking income: Dividend funds breaking out to new highs--$DTD, $VYM, $DON, $VIG, $DVY, $SDY, $DTN, $PEY.
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Reading: Beware The False God Of The Dividend http://seekingalpha.com/a/l1kt $SDY $VIG $SCHD $DVY $SDIV $DLN
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David Jackson: Thinking about David Merkel's "non-dividend-investor" approach: buy stocks with growth which pay dividends. http://seekingalpha.com/a/fct5
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SDY PID DVY VIG DTD PFM DES in comparison to some great asset backed REITs & all not created equal TWO ARR NLY AGNC then M&A in BIB GDX REE
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The_American: Watch SLV SIVR PSLV SIL There was an accumulation period. Short & Long term SLV probably most undervalued metal of them ALL Very TVIX HL PAL
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KO PG SDY Dividend stocks: Porterhouse returns, chicken-feed risk. My article "Investors Who Seek Alpha Should Seek Out Div Stocks" Mar30
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William Rilling: Agree. Also look at Utilities. FE, SO, etc. and Seeking Alpha will send you lot's of info daily.
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JNJ KO MO SDY Dividend stocks: Jumbo returns, shrimp risk. My article "Investors Who Seek Alpha Should Seek Out Dividend Stocks" Mar30
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William Rilling: Agree, but MCD and some NLY Short Term should be considered.
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Divvy up! Dividend funds breaking out today: VIG, SDY, DTD, DVY, DTN, VYM, PEY. All yield 3-4%.
10/21/11
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Ocean Man: People are buying safe low-beta at the top.
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Hillbilly Stock Star: Senior Citizens! LOL! Ray James has income seeking seniors up to eyeballs in pipelines, PAA,OKS, OKE! Long.
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