Sector By Sector Model Portfolio With Double The Market Yield

Over the past few weeks I've screened the ten economic sectors of the 1500 stock universe that is formed from the stocks in the S&P 500, the Mid-Cap 400 and Small Cap 600. It was my intention in writing a sector by sector analysis to not only examine each sector to identify possible equity selections, but to also highlight the ability to build a well-balanced and diversified portfolio to include all fully weighted economic sectors. Dividend investing to many investors means a portfolio packed with telephone and utility stocks. As we found, there are plenty of selections in each sector. Many investors largest asset account is their IRA, so I have not added MLP's to the mix of our choice of a dividend growth portfolio. A plan B, so to speak. There is often a question why we should diversify holdings over the economic sectors. The chart below should help... Read more

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