This High-Yield Dividend Portfolio Will Beat the Market

The past two weeks, the disaster in Japan has taken a toll on the market with the S&P falling 3.8%. When people panic, all assets get sold off. Our portfolio proved more stable than the markets and moved from underperforming the market by 0.3% two weeks ago to beating it by 0.3% now. While outperformance is always good, it should be taken with a grain of salt. We're investing for the long term, and it's only been 3 weeks. I firmly believe the results will bear us out. Movers & shakersOf our stocks, the biggest movers in the portfolio the past two weeks were France Telecom (-7.7%) and Vodafone (-6.9%), which dropped more than the S&P 500's -3.8%. However, these losses were both less than the European market's large drop of 8.8% as measured by the euro Stoxx 50.... Read more