Buy and Hold Stocks

Dividend investing might not be as exciting as trying to find the latest tech stock that is about to soar, but that’s because dividend investing is a long-term sport for patient investors. Dividends are typically paid out by larger, well-established companies and have become increasingly popular in the current near-record-low interest rate environment.

After all, it’s easier to have your money work for you when you invest in a company that provides an annual dividend of four percent and has a long history of increasing its annual dividend than, say, putting your money in the bank or bonds, where the yields are virtually zero.

Dividends are typically by companies that make a lot of money, but don’t need all of the cash to fund growth. Instead of reinvesting all of their money into the company, they pay some of it out to shareholders.

This thread is to learn about few buy and hold stocks for 2017.
 
I think rather than investing and holding stocks it is better to have some immediate benefit by investing in ETFs. I have been investing in ETFs for quiet sometime now, and keep in mind the below factors before investing in them:
1) holdings within the ETF and the percentage of the positions
2) history of the dividend payments
3) MER

Some of my best dividend ETFs have been:
1) Financial Select Sector SPDR FUND
2) Vanguard Total World Stock
3) iShares S&P US Preferred Stock ETF
 

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