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Income investors seeking equities to buy right now should consider one of more than two-dozen large-cap stocks going ex-dividend next week. Several characteristics make large-cap stocks desirable as core portfolio building blocks. Generally stocks of older and established companies, these equities typically offer a high degree of operational and financial transparency. This transparency allows investors easy access to information for…

High dividend mutual funds still can provide steady returns even though exchange-traded funds (ETFs) are gaining popularity as the investment of choice for investors seeking easy diversification. To maximize one’s investment returns, investors can seek out high dividend mutual funds that offer robust asset appreciation in addition to steady income distributions in order to produce strong total returns over an…

One potential response to declining markets is moving a portion of an investment portfolio into equities that continue their extended records of steady dividend hikes. Income investors seek vehicles that can maintain long streaks of annual dividend increases because these tend to outperform market averages over extended time horizons. Equities with steady dividend hikes generally deliver slightly higher total returns…

Income investors seeking equities to buy right now should consider one or more of the two-dozen mid-cap stocks going ex-dividend next week. While generally not as stable and with shorter streaks of consecutive dividend hikes, many mid-cap stocks characteristics that make them desirable for portfolio diversification and even portfolio protection in certain situations. Like their large-cap equivalents, many mid-caps are…

Income investors seeking equities to buy right now should consider one of more than two-dozen large-cap stocks going ex-dividend next week. Several characteristics make large-cap stocks desirable as core portfolio building blocks. Generally stocks of older and established companies, these equities typically offer a high degree of operational and financial transparency. This transparency allows investors easy access to information for…