“Total return is the name of the game.”
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🗓️ 27 June 2017
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
As the return on bonds continues to languish, more investors are turning to dividend stocks. Ron Gross highlights the risk in chasing yield and urges investors to focus on total return instead. Plus, we discuss the stigma of being label “dividend stock”, the beauty of dividend aristocrats, and a couple of stocks to add to your watchlist.
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| 0:19.2 | It's Tuesday, June 27th. Welcome to Market Foolery. I'm Chris Hill joining me in studio today from Total Income. |
| 0:25.0 | Ron Gross, thanks for being here. |
| 0:27.0 | Oh, it's a pleasure to be with you, Chris. |
| 0:29.0 | Strategy Week rolls on. |
| 0:31.0 | For those who might have missed yesterday's episode, this whole... on for shame but that's the great thing about a podcast you can go back and |
| 0:38.1 | check it out yes bill man and I talking about small caps we're every day this week we're doing a different investing strategy because as you're listening to this on Tuesday, June 27th, I'm actually in Ireland. |
| 0:51.0 | Oh, how is it? You know, it's green. A little bit of rain. |
| 0:55.2 | Excellent. Let's talk about income because often is the case on market |
| 1:01.8 | foolery when we are talking about growth stocks and let's face |
| 1:06.4 | it for a lot of investors out there I would argue for most investors out there |
| 1:11.0 | there is a portion of their portfolio that is set aside for |
| 1:15.9 | income and the older they get the more people go into wealth protection mode |
| 1:21.9 | and so I wanted to get some thoughts from you |
| 1:24.6 | first in terms of like where are we when it comes to income investing because |
| 1:29.9 | it seems like and I don't want to pick on bonds, but it seems like the last few years, |
| 1:36.4 | there is virtually no reason whatsoever for the average investor to be investing in bonds. |
| 1:44.0 | I think that's fair. |
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