Special Dividends Prediction for 2010 Pays Off

In February, I declared that 2010 would be the year of the special dividends. I reasoned that companies would push as much dividend booty toward shareholders as they could to take advantage of the ending 15% dividend tax treatment. I predicted that companies with big insider holdings would pass out incredibly big checks before dividends became taxed as ordinary income (up to 39% next year).That's prediction is coming true:... Read more