Investors could get whiplash watching the stock market collapse last year, then quickly rebound to regain all the lost ground and go on to set new record highs. In periods of extreme market volatility such as the one we've just gone through, one constant that investors can count on is the reliability of dividend stocks to see them through. The asset managers at Hartford Funds found that over a 90-year period going all the way back to 1930, dividend-paying stocks contributed 41% to the total return of the benchmark S&P 500 index. Read More...
Investors could get whiplash watching the stock market collapse last year, then quickly rebound to regain all the lost ground and go on to set new record highs. In periods of extreme market volatility such as the one we’ve just gone through, one constant that investors can count on is the reliability of dividend stocks to see them through. The asset managers at Hartford Funds found that over a 90-year period going all the way back to 1930, dividend-paying stocks contributed 41% to the total return of the benchmark S&P 500 index.
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