With yields on bonds and CDs so low as to almost be insulting, investors are finding themselves searching for income in places they might normally have never thought to look.  I’ve written extensively about dividend paying stocks and about dividend-focused ETFs in particular.  Today, I’m going to cover an asset class that has historically been the...Read More

If you’ve been trading or investing long enough, you’ve no doubt come across the Dogs of the Dow strategy. In its most popular form, an investor buys the 10 Dow stocks with the highest dividend yield, holds them for a year, and then starts the process over again. The Small Dogs of the Dow uses...Read More

I like ETFs as an investment vehicle.  And I love dividends as a source of investment return. So, one might draw the conclusion that I was favorably disposed towards dividend ETFs, and indeed I am (see “Dividend ETFs for Growth and Income”). Today, I’m going to take a look at one relatively new entrant in...Read More

Last week, I took a look at how the “Investing All-Stars” were positioning themselves for the remainder of 2012. Then—as now—the Eurozone crisis hung over the capital markets like the proverbial Sword of Damocles.  Given the difficulty of investing under this kind of uncertainty, I thought it would be beneficial to peek over the shoulders...Read More

For all the talk of dividend investing in recent years, it’s easy to lose sight of the fact that the average U.S. stock, as measured by the S&P 500, still yields a paltry 1.9%. Even the Vanguard Dividend Appreciation ETF (NYSE: $VIG), a core long-term holding in my ETF portfolios—barely yields 2%, and this is...Read More