The Standard & Poor's Guide to Building Wealth with Dividend Stocks, Hardcover

Improve your investment returns with expert advice from the world's leading financial information organization

Investors are rediscovering the profitable advantages of dividend-paying stocks, due to the "bird in the hand" nature of regular dividend payments, dramatically reduced historical volatility, and the current reduction in the federal dividend tax rate. The Standard & Poor's Guide to Building Wealth with Dividend Stocks tackles all the key issues for adding the stability and performance of dividend stocks to your portfolio, providing hands-on techniques for identifying the best dividend-paying stocks and companies, using dividend tax law changes to improve returns, and implementing innovative dividend stock strategies.

Joseph R. Tigue is retired managing editor of Standard & Poor's financial newsletter The Outlook and a leading authority on the strategies and benefits of dividend investing. Author of The Standard & Poor's Guide to Long-Term Investing and coauthor of The Dividend-Rich Investor, his comments and insights have been featured in BusinessWeek and other financial publications as well as on various TV programs

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