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To: Investor2 who wrote (3828)	2/19/2010 9:13:55 PM
From: Paul Senior	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 34328

About that ten year time frame. I would've said yes, but this last decade may have been the "lost decade" for some stocks of good and excellent companies. I was looking at KMB and PG to say a mistake was not buying 50, 40, 30, 20 or 10 years ago and just holding on. Except in looking, I saw that the last ten years were actually bad (for the stock price) for both KMB and PG. The two stocks went nowhere essentially. (Although of course dividend reinvestment gave profits, and just being in a "going nowhere" stock would be better than being in a losing stock.) Notice last ten years here compared to previous decades: finance.yahoo.com finance.yahoo.com

To: Investor2 who wrote (3828)	2/19/2010 10:24:18 PM
From: Steve Felix	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 34328

I'm sure there are others, but SDY is one: "The investment seeks to replicate, before expenses, correspond generally to the price and yield of the S&P High Yield Dividend Aristocrats index. The fund uses a passive management strategy designed to track the price and yield performance of the Dividend index. It is nondiversified." Top ten holdings Company / Symbol / yield Black Hills Corporation BKH 3.55 CenturyTel, Inc. CTL 3.23 Cincinnati Financial Corporatio CINF 3.55 Consolidated Edison, Inc. ED 3.12 Lilly (Eli) & Co. LLY 2.85 Integrys Energy Group Inc TEG 3.96 Leggett & Platt, Inc. LEG 3.03 Piedmont Natural Gas Co., Inc. PNY 2.73 Pitney Bowes Inc PBI 3.42 Vectren Corp VVC 3.23