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

To: chowder who wrote (9704)	8/1/2011 1:45:44 PM
From: Triffin	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 34328

"My priority, my main objective, is to establish an income stream from dividends that is reliable, predictable and increasing." ===== That's my MO also .. With that in mind .. I've got PGN which is in a merger agreement with DUK .. I'm going to stay with PGN and take the DUK shares assuming that the merger closes even though they've ( PGN ) failed to raise their quarterly payout for the last 10 quarters .. I've also got CEG which is in a merger agreement with EXC .. Same situation as above as CEG has had a flat payout for the last 10 quarters .. So, I'm planning to hold for the merger and take the EXC shares .. EXC has also had the same quarterly dividend for awhile, but at a higher nominal yield that the CEG payments .. Two others on the watchlist for potential replacement are CTL and PPL if either or both fail to increase their payout over the coming year .. I've got both at the same quarterly payment for the last 6 quarters .. Anyone else contemplating some adjustments to their holdings ?? Triff ..

To: chowder who wrote (9704)	8/1/2011 2:08:30 PM
From: straight life	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 34328

Good points; I consider myself an investor (and occasional trader) looking for a story. Sometimes reinvesting dividends is the story, sometimes not. AAPL is one of my best investments: no dividend. If I called myself a Dividend Investor I would've missed out Big Time. Like you said, one has to determine what one's priorities are. Mine is making money pure and simple, however I can, and for me diversification is the way: some dividends, some capital gains, some value, some growth, some charting etc. As I get older, though, and the economy seemingly settles deeper into the new normal, dividends have been looking better and better...