Chasing dividend-paying stocks makes no more sense than chasing a typical growth stock. The best way to build wealth is to buy high-quality businesses below value-based targets and hold these stocks for the long term. Read More

"Buy and hold" is still the best way to build wealth, no matter what unexpectedly flies or floats our way. Read More

Momentum investors are attracted to our solid, dividend-paying stocks right now, which makes for some volatile trading days. Over the long term our picks' ability to build wealth will transcend the current mania. Read More

Getting out from under falling stocks sooner is one way to improve on our solid performance from 2011. Read More

A strong business is the best predictor of stock performance: Keep this in mind throughout 2012 as we encounter the same levels of investor panic that defined 2011. Read More

On one hand we have solid businesses respected broadly as potential safe havens in times of turmoil. On the other are companies that are similarly stable operationally but haven’t established enough credibility with investors. Therein lay potential opportunities. Read More

We’re deep into 2011, still with a shot at posting a third straight year of double-digit returns. But the clock doesn’t stop on Dec. 31. Read More

Dividends paid by How They Rate companies were remarkably stable even as the market crashed in 2008, and their stock prices were among the first to bounce back once the market regained its footing. Read More

With expectations lower than they’ve been since 2009 but businesses primed with ample low-cost capital, the pieces are in place for an end-of-year rally that could lead to another double-digit total return year for the Canadian Edge Portfolio. Read More

This dramatic selloff is likely to be what those that have come before have been: a great opportunity to lock in high yields paid by otherwise solid operating companies. Read More