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Strategies & Market Trends : Value Investing
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To: Jurgis Bekepuris who wrote (53240)1/28/2014 3:40:31 PM
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MOT. As far as comparing your results to an index. It depends on how you are investing.

a. I am not trying to beat an index any more. I now invest in dividend stocks and they may or may not beat the NYSE. I look at my dividend + cap gain and compare that to the NYSE anyway. I feel up/down if I am better/worse, but I know that that is irrational and I try to stifle it. My objective is safe dividends and some reasonable cap gains (based on profit/dividend growth of the underlying asset). If the NYSE outperforms, so be it.

b. Other investors have different objectives. Comparing their results to an index may be more appropriate. I think that there may also be less stress (& responsibility) if invested in an index. More fun and challenging to pick stocks.
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