The Rational Case For Dividend Growth Investing (Part 1) - Seeking Alpha

The Rational Case For Dividend Growth Investing (Part 1) - Seeking Alpha: David Van Knapp is anything but an entrenched financial professional. Starting in 2007, his affinity for value investing gradually gave way to developing his own unique approach to dividend growth investing. The author of five annual eBooks on the subject, Van Knapp has allowed individual investors approaching retirement to take their financial destinies into their own hands by carefully constructing and managing a portfolio of dividend growth stocks. Dave has been analyzing and writing about stocks since 2001, both on his own site SensibleStocks.com and here at Seeking Alpha.

Seeking Alpha’s Jonathan Liss recently caught up with Van Knapp to discuss the rapid growth in popularity of dividend growth investing. His most recent e-book, Top 40 Dividend Growth Stocks For 2012: How to Create and Maintain a Dividend Growth Portfolio provides the basis for the interview that follows.

The Rational Case For Dividend Growth Investing (Part 2) - Seeking Alpha

The Rational Case For Dividend Growth Investing (Part 2) - Seeking Alpha: Jonathan Liss (JL): Let’s drill down into some of the nitty gritty of what you are proposing. How much portfolio turnover can the typical Div. Growth investor expect?

David Van Knapp (DVK): Typically, the dividend growth investor purchases stocks with the intention of holding them for a long time. That’s because he or she selects companies that are expected to succeed for long periods of time, and then focuses on the increasing income stream generated by those companies. So stock price movements have less impact than they probably do on the average investor. In fact, contrary to some behavioral finance theories about investor panic, a price increase may be more likely to induce a sale than a price decrease, while a price decrease may be more likely to induce a purchase.

Dividend Growth Stocks: 11 Dividend Aristocrats Giving Stability And Higher-Yields

Dividend Growth Stocks: 11 Dividend Aristocrats Giving Stability And Higher-Yields: 11 Dividend Aristocrats Giving Stability And Higher-Yields

How long have you gone without cheating on your diet? How long have you stuck to your budget? How long have you driven without speeding? How long have you gone since missing a day of work/school due to illness? Most of these would be measured in minutes, days, months, while some might be measured in a few years.

Imagine stringing together a 25 year series of the above items, or anything else for that matter. That would be something very special. The S&P 500 Dividend Aristocrats have done just that. Here is some more information on this special group of stocks...

Dividend Champions Smackdown XXIV - Seeking Alpha

Dividend Champions Smackdown XXIV - Seeking Alpha: Dividend Champions Smackdown XXIV

In the most recent installments of the Smackdown series, I screened the Dividend Champions (which can be found here: http://dripinvesting.org/Tools/Tools.asp ) starting with new columns that I titled Confidence Factor and the 5-year Estimated Payback Percentage.

(Note that I have separated the Champions, Contenders, and Challengers into different articles to fit more closely into the format preferred by Seeking Alpha. Champions are companies that have paid higher dividends for at least 25 straight years; Contenders have streaks of 10-24 years; Challengers have streaks of 5-9 years. I use the same Roman numeral for all three articles.)

Dividend Contenders Smackdown XXIV - Seeking Alpha

Dividend Contenders Smackdown XXIV - Seeking Alpha: Dividend Contenders Smackdown XXIV

In the most recent installments of the Smackdown series, I screened the Dividend Champions (which can be found here: http://dripinvesting.org/Tools/Tools.asp ) starting with new columns that I titled Confidence Factor and the 5-year Estimated Payback Percentage.

(Note that I have separated the Champions, Contenders, and Challengers into different articles to fit more closely into the format preferred by Seeking Alpha. Champions are companies that have paid higher dividends for at least 25 straight years; Contenders have streaks of 10-24 years; Challengers have streaks of 5-9 years. I use the same Roman numeral for all three articles.)

Dividend Challengers Smackdown XXIV - Seeking Alpha

Dividend Challengers Smackdown XXIV - Seeking Alpha: Dividend Challengers Smackdown XXIV

In the most recent installments of the Smackdown series, I screened the Dividend Champions (which can be found here: http://dripinvesting.org/Tools/Tools.asp ) starting with new columns that I titled Confidence Factor and the 5-year Estimated Payback Percentage.

(Note that I have separated the Champions, Contenders, and Challengers into different articles to fit more closely into the format preferred by Seeking Alpha. Champions are companies that have paid higher dividends for at least 25 straight years; Contenders have streaks of 10-24 years; Challengers have streaks of 5-9 years. I use the same Roman numeral for all three articles.)

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Asset Allocation For A Dividend Growth Investor - Seeking Alpha

Asset Allocation For A Dividend Growth Investor - Seeking Alpha: For the past couple of years, I have been searching for ways to meld my own beliefs about dividend growth investing with the best ideas I can find about asset allocation. My intent had been to write an article when I had it all figured out. That's looking like it may never happen, so I've decided to write this article about where I am now. Perhaps the article will help readers who have been pondering the same subjects, and the comments will help all of us.

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