3 Dividend Stocks You Can Safely Hold for Decades
Although it's an "all-weather" strategy, particularly during periods of rising inflation and slowing economic growth, many investors find dividend stocks provide the certainty and stability they're seeking for their portfolios -- and with good reason.
The asset managers at Hartford Funds found that the performance of the dividend-paying stocks in the benchmark S&P 500 going all the way back to 1930 contributed 41% to the total return of the index.
Source Fool.com