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Why a 2% Dividend Yield Portfolio Beats a 25% One

Blog, Dividend Growth

Who puts $750,000 into a portfolio paying 2% when the same money can buy a 25% yield? That is $15,000 of income a year against $187,500. Written that way, nobody picks the $15,000. I pick it. One of those two portfolios is still paying me in twenty years. The other one runs on a distribution nobody has proven can last. *Disclosure: I own Apple (AAPL), National Bank (NA.TO) and Royal Bank (RY.TO). This is education, not advice. Do your own due diligence. What Is the Point of a 2% …

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Is Dividend Investing Dead? What Died and What Didn’t

Blog, Investing Strategy

"Dividend investing as I knew it and loved it is dead." That is not my line. It belongs to Todd Wenning, a dividend investor who spent years making the case for dividend growth stocks. He published it on Flyover Stocks. The Globe and Mail picked it up. A reader named Kevin sent it to me. I read it twice. Then I did something you might not expect from a guy who has been following a dividend growth investing strategy since 2010. I agreed with most of it. Not all of it. But most of …

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