Rising Dividends: My Dividend Growth Portfolio 2011-2012 Report

I yanked my head out of the sand the other day to see what is going on in the world. I finally finished the 2012 edition of Top 40 Dividend Growth Stocks for 2012. I've been buried in that effort since Halloween. I'm ready to write some articles. If I can find my napkins somewhere, I've got a bunch of good ideas scribbled down. At least they seemed good when I scribbled them. As many know, I maintain a public demonstration Dividend Growth Portfolio (DGP). I keep it out here in the open so that people can see how one person (me) executes a dividend growth strategy and what its results are. When I first got started in investing many years ago, I was appalled at how many predictions and recommendations were made, or flat performance claims ("I've averaged 14% returns for 26 years"), with no documentation to back up... Read more