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

To: JimisJim who wrote (9872)	8/17/2011 8:31:55 AM
From: rnsmth	Respond to of 34328

<<and I know your have retirement accounts (and diverse income streams) all figured out and I'm jealous, quite frankly... <vbg>>> Don't be jealous :), and thank you. As I have thought about it this morning, though, mutual funds/etfs have been vehicles when I have moved into a new area of investing. For example, when I first invested in precious metal miners, BGEIX was my vehicle while I took the time to do DD on individual companies. Same thing in natural gas and other natural resources. So, maybe taking a look at SDY is falling back on that comfortable pattern that has worked for me in the past. I do think that, to the extent I focus on higher yield issues, a portfolio with a higher yield than SDY's current almost 3.5% would be relatively easy, SDY may have more safety and it would have more diversification from what I recall from looking at the PDF's of their holdings and sectors. More grist for the mill.