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To: zax who wrote (152945)	4/24/2013 10:38:59 AM
From: rnsmth	3 Recommendations Respond to of 213177

<<Bad place for retirement money.>> My retirement money is in dividend growth stocks. There are dividend and dividend growth investors who will not buy Apple yet because it lacks history as a dividend paying company. Some require a 5 or 10 year history of increasing dividends before they will purchase a company because they want to see how their companies have done over a recession or two. The way I view it, Apple just gave its shareholders a pay raise that is more than 5 times greater than the increase in the CPI. Over all my positions (25), I am projecting a 11% increase in dividend income. Apple is an outperformer this year in that regard. My pensions have a maximum COLA adjustment of 2% a year, SS to what the CPI says. I like my dividend portfolio, and Apple has a place in it for at least another year. We'll see what the increase in dividend and the decrease in the share count is then ;)