SDY

Dividend paying blue chip stocks have been one of the soundest and least volatile of the equity investments this year. As of this date the S&P 500 Dividend Aristocrats are up 6.4% YTD.  If you add the current yield of 3.27% to that, you get an annualized return of almost 10%.  Very few hedge funds will surpass that this year.   In fact 44% of the total return of the S&P 500 over the last 80 years has been from dividends.  In many cases, the dividends paid by the common stock exceed the yield on the corporate debt of the … Read more