By Marc Lichtenfeld What the heck are you supposed to do now?
The market has given back all of its gains for the past 2 1/2 years.
If you’d invested in September 2017 and sold today, you’d have exactly the same amount of money. Not a penny more.
And if you’d invested after September 2017 (anytime other than December 2018, when the market corrected and hit a recent low), you’d have less.
That is, unless you owned dividend stocks.
Since September 1, 2017, the S&P Dividend Aristocrats Index beat the S&P 500 by more than five percentage points.
Dividend Aristocrats are stocks that are members of the S&P 500 …read more
