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Strategies & Market Trends : Dividend investing for retirement -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Kip S who wrote (9269)	6/15/2011 9:56:09 PM
From: RetiredNow	Respond to of 34328

Yep. Thx. I use several other rules of thumb as well. I'm a big believer in dividend investing and like this thread. Lot's of likeminded folks.

To: Kip S who wrote (9269)	6/16/2011 8:41:04 AM
From: Bocor	1 Recommendation Respond to of 34328

Interesting article on diversification: "The point I am trying to make is that one should not get married to their positions. It is important to have a strategy, but it is also important that not all strategies will work all the time. While I do believe that Johnson & Johnson (JNJ), despite its recent difficulties, is a great dividend growth stock to own, it should be one of at least 30 in a diversified dividend portfolio. Diversification is important, not only to reduce the risk of concentrated bets on a sector that implodes but also to provide investors with a greater chance of including sectors and stocks which could provide decent total returns over time. As discussed in earlier articles, I am striving to have a dividend portfolio which is comprised of three types of dividend stocks. So far the higher yielding and the lowest yielding stocks have delivered the best total returns, while stocks in the sweet spot have done only ok. It is also important to keep a long term view on your investments as well, as your investing portfolio could go through several market cycles before and after you retire on it." seekingalpha.com