Is Your Dividend Income Riskier Than Expected?

I try to maintain a conservative portfolio of dividend growth stocks, where I maintain proper asset allocation, position sizing and have exposure to asset classes and markets outside of the US. You could see my portfolio here.Since my investments are spread out in several brokerages, it makes sense to keep track of them in one place using spreadsheet software. This makes it easy to compare the overall position size of each stock that I own in relation to my total portfolio. In an ideal world, in a dividend portfolio consisting of 40 stocks, one would expect to have a 2.50% allocation to each one of them. In reality however, building a dividend portfolio takes time. The companies which might have been great buys in 2008, might not fit in my entry criteria today. Since I only sell after a dividend cut, I hold on to companies which are overvalued... Read more