Automatic Vs. Active Dividend Investing

Today, I wanted to discuss one of the hardest investment issues I've considered in trying to adopt a coherent investment strategy that will lead to success. For lack of a better term, I call this the debate between automatic dividend investing and active dividend investing. One one hand, you have what I call "automatic dividend investing" where you simply identify the strongest six or seven companies in the world, and invest money into them every month. If you got $500 to invest, it would basically amount to this: $100 for Coca-Cola (KO), $100 for Exxon-Mobil (XOM), $100 for Johnson & Johnson (JNJ), $100 for Procter & Gamble (PG), and $100 for Colgate-Palmolive (CL) each month. For most... Read more