In periods of rising inflation and slowing economic growth, investors often turn to the reliability of dividend stocks to see them through, and with good reason.

The asset managers at Hartford Funds looked at the performance of the S&P 500 going all the way back to 1930 and found that dividends accounted for 40% of the total return of the index over that 92-year period. Equally important, the dividend stocks in the index never had a decade where they produced a negative return.

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