Dividends Defy Fickle Market

It was a great year for Morningstar DividendInvestor, which ended up the third-best performer of the 180-plus letters monitored by the Hulbert Financial Digest. In fact, DividendInvestor has quietly had several great years. Over the past 12 months through December, DividendInvestor was up 14.4% by Hulbert Financial Digest count vs. just 0.98% for the dividend-reinvested Wilshire 5000 Total Stock Market Index.

DividendInvestor editor Josh Peters sticks to a pleasingly rational strategy, carefully assessing the safety and potential growth of dividends through fundamental analysis, and letting capital gains take care of themselves. He offers two model portfolios, the growth-oriented Builder and the higher-yielding Harvest. He writes in his current issue:

Source: Market Watch

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