Saturday, November 5, 2011

How The Dividend Champions' Dividends Hedged Investors From The Ravages Of The Lost Decade - Seeking Alpha

How The Dividend Champions' Dividends Hedged Investors From The Ravages Of The Lost Decade - Seeking Alpha: Robert Allan Schwartz wrote an interesting article titled: "How Did The Lost Decade Affect Dividend Champions?" This article received a great deal of discussion and comment. I believe the purpose of Robert’s article was to illustrate that dividend champions as a group would have performed reasonably well, thanks to their steady growth of dividends, during this very challenging investment period calendar year 2000 – 2009, a.k.a., the so-called Lost Decade. The following excerpts from Robert’s article talked about buying one share of each of the Dividend Champions on the first day of the period and holding it until the last day:

Suppose you care only about capital gain. Suppose you bought one share of each of the 101 Dividend Champions at the opening price on the morning of January 1, 2000, and sold it at the closing price on the afternoon of December 31, 2009. Your investment was $3974.35. What was your return?

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