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Mergent Inc: Beating the S&P with Dividends

How to build a superior portfolio of dividend yielding stocks

By: Peter O'Shea, Jonathan Worrall

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Product code: 22347
ISBN: 0471479632
240 pages
Format: Hb
Published by: John Wiley & Sons, 2005

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Description of Mergent Inc: Beating the S&P with Dividends

Soaring stock prices, dot.com millionaires, and day traders are things of the past. The time has come for a safer and smarter way to build wealth. No matter what your investment objectives or risk outlook, Beating the S&P with Dividends can show you how to accomplish this.

Dividend-yielding stocks have made their long-awaited comeback, and in today's financial environment, they should be a part of your investment portfolio. But to make the most of dividend-yielding stocks, you need the detailed information that only Mergent - the preferred source for global business and financial information - can provide.

In Beating the S&P with Dividends, Peter O'Shea and Jonathan Worrall reveal the strategies and techniques that Mergent professionals use to continually uncover these high-return/low-risk stocks, and explain how you can implement them in virtually any portfolio.

Beating the S&P with Dividends will show you how to:

- Select the best dividend-yielding stocks available
- Assemble a portfolio of top-performing dividend-yielding stocks
- Reap the rewards of REIT dividends
- Allocate your portfolio for the greatest tax efficiency
- Maximize your returns through direct investment

Dividends really do matter - now more than ever. Pick up Beating the S&P with Dividends and find out how investing in "dividend achievers," either directly or through a fund, can work for you.

Mergent Inc: Beating the S&P with Dividends - Chapter headings

Preface
Acknowledgments

1. Introduction

2. All About Dividends

3. A New Tax Environment

4. Dividend Stocks Make a Comeback

5. The Evidence Is In: Dividend Stocks Really Do Perform Better

6. What Makes a Good Dividend Stock

7. Yields and Ratios Unraveled

8. The Mergent Dividend Investing Strategy

9. Dividend Investment Options

10. Real Estate Investment Trusts

11. Selected Dividend Achievers

Appendix: Dividend Actions of Dividend-Achieving Companies

Notes
Indez

Authobiography of Peter O'Shea, Jonathan Worrall

PETER O'SHEA has been an editor and journalist since the late 1980s. Peter is currently Managing Editor for one of Mergent, Inc.'s leading online products, Mergent's Industry Reports, which provide analysis on the current environment as well as financial data for leading companies in a range of industries in North America, Europe, and Asia-Pacific. He is currently based in Sydney, Australia.

Jonathan Worrall has held senior positions in the financial data and analysis systems and software industry since 1982. He has lived and worked in the U.K., Asia, Australia, and the U.S.A. serving the Global Investment Management and Broking community. He is currently Chairman of Ford Equity Research and is also Chief Executive Officer of Mergent, Inc., a global provider of equity and fixed income data and software. Jonathan lives in the Carolinas and is married with two children.

Mergent, Inc. (formerly the Financial Information Services division of Moody's), is the preferred source for global business and financial information, and has been collecting and delivering financial information since 1900. For over a century Mergent, Inc., has built its reputation as an innovative leader in supplying comprehensive, accurate data, along with easy-to-use information tools based on the latest in technology. www.mergent.com