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The Most Successful Dividend Investors Of All Time
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Published Wed, 06 Jun 2012 07:35:09 -0400 on Seeking Alpha
Dividend investing is as sexy as watching paint dry on the wall. Defining an entry criteria that selects quality dividend stocks with rising dividends over time and then patiently reinvesting these dividends while sitting on your hands is not exciting. While active traders have a plethora of hedge fund managers on the covers of Forbes magazine, there are not many well-publicized successful dividend investors. Even value investing has its own superstars - Ben Graham and Warren Buffett. I did some research and uncovered several successful dividend investors, whose stories provide reassurance that the traits of successful dividend investors I outlined in a previous post are indeed accurate. The first investor is Anne Scheiber, who turned a $5,000 investment in 1944 into $22 million by the time of her death at the age of 101 in 1995. Anne Scheiber worked as an IRS auditor for 23 years, never earning more than... Read more
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