I happened to stumble upon this blurb from a white paper (circ 2015) This AM
As an increasing number of baby boomers are entering their retirement years, the demand for income-yielding investments will only continue to grow. By 2020, a projected 70% of all investment assets will be held by those in or approaching retirement. In an interest rate environment where nominal bond yields have fallen to their lowest levels in 50 years, investors seeking alternatives to bond income have increasingly been drawn to dividend-paying stocks, with nearly half of dividend income being paid to those 65 and older.
Juxtaposed to WisdomTree Research recently published white paper. (circ 2020)
In our opinion, the evidence in favor of weighting by a fundamental, other than market price, is overwhelming. But we do believe that passive strategies have historically delivered good results. We developed our equity Indexes with the objective of improving the passive approach, by anchoring companies to a less volatile measure than market price, such as a company fundamental. The fundamental we believe to be the strongest indicator of underlying value is the dividend .
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Recently, I posted a comment regarding Geraldine Weiss (Grande Dame of Dividends) who stated the exact same thing back in 1960's and went on for well over 36 years centering her whole investment Philosophy around the dividend fundamental and delivering an average yearly return of over 11% to her newsletter subscribers. Her Investment Philosophy was the belief investors should focus on dividends, rather than earnings because it’s too easy to manipulate earnings figures in financial statements. She felt dividends are “real money” and a hallmark of a blue-chip stock. Her underlying approach was to focus on dividend yield, which is the annual dividend per share divided by the share price. “Folks who ignore the importance of dividends in making stock market selections are not investors. They are speculators.” - Geraldine Weiss
Glad to see the folks at Wisdom Tree Research finally caught up!!! Just goes to show - if you grab another bag of popcorn, and stay in your seat long enough, The show does indeed play again.
- Scoot
"There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult." -- Warren Buffett
As an increasing number of baby boomers are entering their retirement years, the demand for income-yielding investments will only continue to grow. By 2020, a projected 70% of all investment assets will be held by those in or approaching retirement. In an interest rate environment where nominal bond yields have fallen to their lowest levels in 50 years, investors seeking alternatives to bond income have increasingly been drawn to dividend-paying stocks, with nearly half of dividend income being paid to those 65 and older.
Juxtaposed to WisdomTree Research recently published white paper. (circ 2020)
In our opinion, the evidence in favor of weighting by a fundamental, other than market price, is overwhelming. But we do believe that passive strategies have historically delivered good results. We developed our equity Indexes with the objective of improving the passive approach, by anchoring companies to a less volatile measure than market price, such as a company fundamental. The fundamental we believe to be the strongest indicator of underlying value is the dividend .
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Recently, I posted a comment regarding Geraldine Weiss (Grande Dame of Dividends) who stated the exact same thing back in 1960's and went on for well over 36 years centering her whole investment Philosophy around the dividend fundamental and delivering an average yearly return of over 11% to her newsletter subscribers. Her Investment Philosophy was the belief investors should focus on dividends, rather than earnings because it’s too easy to manipulate earnings figures in financial statements. She felt dividends are “real money” and a hallmark of a blue-chip stock. Her underlying approach was to focus on dividend yield, which is the annual dividend per share divided by the share price. “Folks who ignore the importance of dividends in making stock market selections are not investors. They are speculators.” - Geraldine Weiss
Glad to see the folks at Wisdom Tree Research finally caught up!!! Just goes to show - if you grab another bag of popcorn, and stay in your seat long enough, The show does indeed play again.
- Scoot
"There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult." -- Warren Buffett