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Spotlight on Cash Flow, Dividends

By Vincent Farrell Jr.

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 The 33rd birthday of the Vanguard 500 Index Fund was Wednesday. The annualized return for the 33 years is 9.6% (thanks to my pal Jon Osbon of Osbon Capital for this information), and almost half of that return is from dividends. That's remarkable and an indication to me of what might lie in store for the next few years. In the slow-growth economy we foresee for the next few years, growth will be hard to come by and cash flow and dividends will be much more a focus than they have been the past few years. This is one of the reasons we at Soleil have been keeping a list of the large-cap companies that have raised their dividends in the last six months. Raising a dividend in the teeth of the financial storm we have gone through is quite a statement. While the Case-Shiller...

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