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Reasons To Keep Vanguard Dividend Appreciation ETF In Your Stock Portfolio
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VIG: An ETF For Rising Inflation
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Why You Should Put Your Money In The Vanguard Dividend Appreciation ETF
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A Closer Look At The Vanguard Dividend Appreciation ETF
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Dividend Income Versus Dividend Growth
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Dividend Growth ETF May Offer The Best Of Both Worlds
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Dividend ETFs Aren't Created Equal: Dividend Appreciation vs. Dividend Hogs
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Comparing Vanguard Dividend Stock ETFs
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WisdomTree Taps Into Dividend Growth Investing
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Jonathan Burton's Life Savings: Income hunters: Bank on this dividend stock play

at MarketWatch.com (Thu, 6:15AM)
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)
John Prestbo's Indexed Investor: ‘Fiscal cliff’ doesn’t deter income seekers

at MarketWatch.com (Dec 17, 2012)
Robert Powell's Retirement Portfolio: How to protect your retirement in 2013

at MarketWatch.com (Dec 14, 2012)
Conrad de Aenlle's Funds For Thought: Dividend ETFs may be first ‘fiscal cliff’ casualty

at MarketWatch.com (Dec 6, 2012)
Jonathan Burton's Life Savings: Let Buffett’s ‘moat’ protect your portfolio

at MarketWatch.com (Aug 6, 2012)
Robert Powell's Your Portfolio: 4 ways to profit at the edge of the fiscal cliff

at MarketWatch.com (Jun 28, 2012)
Weekend Investor: Dividend-paying stocks worth paying for

at MarketWatch.com (Jun 22, 2012)
An ETF that pays you for waiting

at MarketWatch.com (Jun 15, 2012)
Playing Europe in the near term

at MarketWatch.com (Jun 4, 2012)
Want income? Try international real estate

at MarketWatch.com (May 8, 2012)
ETF Adviser: 5 ways investors can beat the retirement bandits

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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

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Weekend Investor: 10 income-paying stocks that beat the crowd

at MarketWatch.com (Jan 27, 2012)
Howard Gold's No-Nonsense Investing: U.S. stocks are investors’ best bet

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Weekend Investor: Why U.S. stock funds, ETFs could see a 2012 rally

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John Prestbo's Indexed Investor: New dividend ETF has yield appeal

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Howard Gold's No-Nonsense Investing: How to reduce risk but stay in the stock game

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Vanguard Dividend Appreciation ETF seeks to track the performance of a benchmark index that measures the investment return of common stocks of companies that have a record of increasing dividends over time.
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Tuesday, June 4, 12:14 PM Popular dividend ETFs - HDV, VYM, VIG, SDY, DVY among them - have fared worse than the SPY as interest rates have risen of late. Credit Suisse narrows the risk down further, identifying 20 stocks with the biggest share of their float held by dividend ETFs. This basket includes Cincinnati Financial (CINF) and Pitney Bowes (PBI) and it's off 3.4% since Ben Bernanke's May testimony, twice as much as the broad market. We'll post the other 18 as they come available. 10 Comments
Wednesday, May 29, 10:10 AM Vanguard's popular Dividend Appreciation ETF (VIG) gets even cheaper, the annual fee dropping to 0.10% from 0.13%. It's the 56th Vanguard ETF to drop fees this year vs. a total of 65 run by the company. Competitors include: DVY, SDY, VYM, HDV, DLN. Comment!
Friday, May 24, 12:45 PM Multi-asset income ETFs are here to stay, writes Paul Britt, as Guggenheim's CVY crosses $1B in AUM. It's been around since 2006, but a new entrant, MDIV has pulled in $440M in less than a year. These income funds have no mandate in their search for yield and roam across dividends (DVY), high-yield (HYG), REITs (IYR, VNQ), and MLPs (AMJ) as necessary. One drawback is their somewhat high expense ratios - in the 60-80 bp range, compared, for example, to DVY at 40 bps. Other M-A ETFs: INKM, IYLD, GYLD, HGI. 2 Comments
Tuesday, May 21, 3:55 PM WisdomTree (WETF) plans a Wednesday launch for its U.S. Dividend Growth Fund (DGRW) - tracking a fundamentally-weighted index of about 300 dividend payers with annual cost of 0.28%. Among the eligibility requirements: Regular dividends for 12 consecutive months and market cap of at least $2B. Individual security weighting is capped at 5%, with sector allocation capped at 20%. Among the large selection of other dividend funds: VIG, PFM, DHS, DTN. More here. Comment! [Financials]
Tuesday, May 21, 5:40 AM Goldman Sachs lifts its forecasts for the S&P 500 (SPY), as David Kostin and company now say they expect the index to gain 5% by year-end to 1,750, 9% to 1,900 in 2014, and 10% to 2,100 in 2015. The rationale: expectations of above-trend real GDP growth beginning next year (Mr. Evans' "escape velocity" ?) coupled with P/E multiple expansion to 16x. Furthermore, dividends should rise ~30% over the next two years, bolstering the firm's claim that dividend-paying equities (DVY) are one of the only places U.S. investors can look to for income-generation. Some of GS's dividend picks, as listed on MarketWatch: Mattel (MAT), Ford (F), Philip Morris (PM), Walgreen (WAG), Chevron (CVX), U.S. Bancorp (USB), GE, Western Union (WU), Dow Chemical (DOW), and AT&T (T). 11 Comments
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
Thursday, March 21, 8:17 AM Vanguard Dividend Appreciation ETF (VIG) announces quarterly distribution of $0.288. 30-day SEC yield of 2.17% (as of 03/20/2013). For shareholders of record Mar. 26. Payable Mar. 28. Ex-div date Mar. 22. 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]

David Jackson
Reading Revisiting The SuperDividend ETF And Its 7.3% Yield http://seekingalpha.com/a/vfpf $SDIV $SDY $DVY $VIG
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David Jackson: Charles, then you'll like this: http://seekingalpha.com/a/dv2p
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Charles Margolis: Aside from AAPL stock / bond yield comparison, I usually don't like stocks w/ yield > the co's bonds. Exceptions based on co's profitability
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$VIG ,.....getting some Tanner momenteum! Long.
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$VIG ,.....you work you ride, Uncle Benny totes the note! Long.
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$VIG ,..
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Dr. Kris
Investors desperately seeking income: Dividend funds breaking out to new highs--$DTD, $VYM, $DON, $VIG, $DVY, $SDY, $DTN, $PEY.
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Perkins Cove: Oh, you shouldn't have said that! Tell us this is not you......check the derriere.... [IMG]http://bit.ly/XRkjPD[/IMG]
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Dr. Kris: Eeuww!
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Hillbilly Stock Star
$VIG ,.......Tanner Boy "mojo" is WORKIN! Long.
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$VIG ,........Tanner Boys are WORKIN! Long.
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$VIG .......Tanner Boy Pick! Long.
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$VIG ,.......running with the Tanner Boys! Building position! Long.
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Hillbilly Stock Star: $WAESX ......My Top Mutual Fund Pick for 2013! Long.
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Jon Peter
See how $DVY, $VIG and $SDY compared for 2012: http://seekingalpha.com/a/ntqn
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David Jackson
Reading Revisiting The SuperDividend ETF And Its 7.3% Yield http://seekingalpha.com/a/vfpf $SDIV $SDY $DVY $VIG
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David Jackson: Charles, then you'll like this: http://seekingalpha.com/a/dv2p
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Dr. Kris
Investors desperately seeking income: Dividend funds breaking out to new highs--$DTD, $VYM, $DON, $VIG, $DVY, $SDY, $DTN, $PEY.
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Perkins Cove: Oh, you shouldn't have said that! Tell us this is not you......check the derriere.... [IMG]http://bit.ly/XRkjPD[/IMG]
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$VIG ,.......running with the Tanner Boys! Building position! Long.
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Hillbilly Stock Star: $WAESX ......My Top Mutual Fund Pick for 2013! Long.
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$VIG 2X volume!
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Hillbilly Stock Star: Prolly some bond money moving over slowly imo.....
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Youngone91: we know that the western governmens will all default throguh inflation. this is common knowledge. 1948 inflation was 20%.
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David Jackson
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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madav1138: Like dividend growth investing? Sounds familiar. Dividend stocks are the way to go in the next 4 years since there will little to no growth.
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The_American
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
1/10/12
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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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Dr. Kris
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.
10/21/11
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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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