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TIME: Are you moving more into dividend stocks...
SMITH: Over time that will be a good place. I don't focus as much on what the dividend is as what the potential dividend could...
Want to take advantage of the lower tax rate on stock dividends but don't know what stocks to buy? Mutual-fund firms have created a batch of new funds focused on dividend-paying companies. Fund tracker Morningstar Inc. estimates that a dozen or so such funds, among them Schwab Dividend Equity Fund and Waddell & Reed Advisors Dividend Income Fund, either recently opened or are set to open. These so-called equity income funds, which pay returns to investors through both dividends and (it is hoped) share-price appreciation, have been around for years, although the investment style was eclipsed...
...Still, says Noland, unification "doesn't have to be a catastrophe." The South would probably see some benefits from the start of a unification process, such as a "peace dividend" from reduced military expenditure. And all that cheap North Korean labor could make the South's companies more competitive. But, worries Thae Khwarg, chief executive of SEI Asset Korea, a fund-management firm in Seoul, South Koreans are terrified about unification because they haven't prepared for it by setting aside financial resources...
Wall Street moneymen have been among the most aggressive in raising dividends: Goldman Sachs, where executives and directors collectively own 25 million company shares, doubled its annual payout to $1 a share. After tax, CEO Henry Paulson's 4 million shares will spin off $3.4 million in dividends--up from $1.2 million. Goldman spokesman Peter Rose says it's "preposterous" that the move had anything to do with personal enrichment and that Goldman's dividend was merely brought up to the industry average. Bear Stearns, long famous for nosebleed executive pay, raised its dividend 18%, to 80¢ a share. After...