Get Rich with Dividends: A Proven System for Earning Double-Digit Returns

Get Rich with Dividends: A Proven System for Earning Double-Digit Returns

by Marc Lichtenfeld
Released July 2012
Publisher(s): Wiley
ISBN: 9781118217818

Read it now on the O’Reilly learning platform with a 10-day free trial.

O’Reilly members get unlimited access to books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.

Start your free trial

Book description

A comprehensive guide to dividend investing that shows how to obtain double-digit returns with ease.

Dividends are responsible for 44% of the S&P 500's returns over the last 80 years. Today they present an excellent opportunity, especially with investors who have been burned in the dot com and housing meltdowns, desperate for sensible and less risky ways to make their money grow. Designed to show investors how they can achieve double-digit average annualized returns over the long-term, Get Rich with Dividends: A Proven System for Earning Double-Digit Returns is the book you'll need to get started making money in any market.

The beauty of dividend investing is that it's extremely easy to understand and takes up almost none of the investor's time. The investor doesn't have to constantly watch over their investments, and can and focus on other things, secure in the knowledge that the system is working and they are accumulating wealth or generating the income they need on a quarterly or even monthly basis.

Using the author's proprietary 10-11-12 System, investors can achieve average annual returns of 12% or more, if they know which stocks to invest in and how to do so - even with below average growth in the share price.

  • Dividend investments are easy to set up and require little to no maintenance, and this book shows you how to do it.

  • A method so easy to use, you'll want to teach your children how to do it early, setting them up for financial independence and avoiding the problems that plagued many investors over the past decade

  • Full of expert advice from a 15-year veteran of equity markets.

By showing investors how to find and invest in these unique but conservative and proven stocks, Get Rich with Dividends is the only book on dividend investing you'll ever need.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. Foreword
  7. Preface
  8. Chapter 1: Why Dividend Stocks?
    1. “Y’all Must’ve Forgot”
    2. Marc Lichtenfeld’s Authentic Italian Trattoria
    3. The Numbers
    4. Keeping Up with Inflation
    5. The 10-11-12 System
    6. Summary
    7. Notes
  9. Chapter 2: What is a Perpetual Dividend Raiser?
    1. Dividend Aristocrats
    2. The Index
    3. The Champions
    4. Junior Aristocrats
    5. Survivorship
    6. Summary
  10. Chapter 3: Past Performance is No Guarantee of Future Results, but It’s Pretty Darn Close
    1. Performance of Perpetual Dividend Raisers
    2. How Do Bonds Compare?
    3. Are You an Investor from Lake Wobegon?
    4. Summary
    5. Notes
  11. Chapter 4: Why Companies Raise Dividends
    1. Buybacks versus Dividends
    2. Management Speaks
    3. Know Your Identity
    4. Attracting the Right Shareholders
    5. Signals to the Market
    6. Summary
    7. Notes
  12. Chapter 5: Get Rich with Boring Dividend Stocks (Snooze Your Way to Millions)
    1. How Much Do You Want to Make?
    2. Summary
  13. Chapter 6: Get Higher Yields (and Maybe Some Tax Benefits)
    1. Buying $1 in Assets for $0.90
    2. Avoid the Tax Man
    3. MLPs
    4. REITs
    5. BDCs
    6. You Don’t Have to Play Mahjong with Mrs. Zuckerberg
    7. Preferred Stocks
    8. Summary
  14. Chapter 7: What You Need to Know to Set Up a Portfolio
    1. The Perpetual Income Portfolio—An Example
    2. Special Dividends
    3. Summary
  15. Chapter 8: The 10-11-12 System
    1. Yield
    2. Dividend Growth
    3. Payout Ratio
    4. Formula
    5. Summary
  16. Chapter 9: DRIPs and Direct Purchase Plans
    1. Summary
  17. Chapter 10: Using Options to Turbocharge Your Returns
    1. Covered Calls: The Espresso of Income Investing
    2. Selling Puts
    3. Summary
  18. Chapter 11: Foreign Stocks
    1. One Lump or Two?
    2. Lumpy Perpetual Dividend Raisers?
    3. Other Risks
    4. Summary
  19. Chapter 12: Taxes
    1. Foreign Taxes
    2. Tax-Deferred Strategies
    3. Summary
  20. Conclusion: The End of the Book, the Beginning of Your Future
  21. Glossary
  22. About the Author
  23. Acknowledgments
  24. Index

Product information

  • Title: Get Rich with Dividends: A Proven System for Earning Double-Digit Returns
  • Author(s): Marc Lichtenfeld
  • Release date: July 2012
  • Publisher(s): Wiley
  • ISBN: 9781118217818