George Edwards

How Are the S&P's Dividend Aristocrats Performing?

This article is helpful, but the Aristocrats list needs updating and completion: ROH no longer exists, and RPM, SYY, FPL, and NFG are not mentioned - Aristocrats all.

Dividends Survive Despite Recession

On the other hand, I think the real point here is to own those equities which have corporate cultures of raising their dividends on a regular basis, and treating a dividend cut (or failure to raise) as a strong sell signal. If the majority of your portfolio raised their dividends this past 12 months, you avoided most of the "decimation", and enjoyed an increased income, real money you can spend or reinvest.

What Does Dow's Theory Tell Us About Bank of America?

And through all those downturns BAC continued to increase the dividend every year.

General Electric Presents a Dividend Opportunity

It is not just a solid dividend: The dividend represents solid growth. We bought GE several years ago when it was yielding about 2.5% on the current price. Now, with dividend increases, we are getting 15% yield on our original purchase price. Show me a bond that will do that for retirees.

Investing in Dividend Paying Companies

This analysis is further proof, if any were needed, of the wisdom of buying solid companies and planning to hold them for a long time. A refinement of the technique would have been to assume all stocks had DRIPS plans, and you opted for them, which would have been the best pre-retirement strategy.

Mind you, not all of the DJIA stocks meet my personal quality criteria, so I would have been more selective. The same holds true today, for example GM. And there are other higher-quality stocks which are not on the DJIA list. Quality is the issue, and dividends are part of the definition of quality.

2 Reasons to Hold a U.S. Stocks-Dominated Portfolio

Just a not in passing on the supposed parallel between the Imperial Rome and the USA. The rise of the Roman Empire was coincident with a major period of global warming. The collapse of the Roman Empire took place coincidentally with a significant period of global cooling. We are, I am widely advised, in a significant period of global warming at the present moment.