Dividend stocks: A good income bet

With CDs and U.S. Treasury bonds paying almost no interest, where is an individual supposed to turn for income? Increasingly, analysts are challenging investing principles about risk and suggesting solid, well-known, dividend-paying U.S. company stocks as near-bond substitutes.

Beyond the government’s “well-exhibited capacity to conjure money,” Grant says, “we can’t think of a better reason not to own government securities.” Hence, his preference for what he calls “big, stable, dividend-paying adaptive corporations” that “can survive in most monetary and fiscal settings.”

Source: The News Tribune

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