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...They have the ability to keep paying and raising their dividend and have demonstrated the willingness," says Deborah Kuenstner, head of value investing at Putnam Investments. Her picks include power companies Entergy and Florida Power, oil company ExxonMobil and consumer-products maker Procter & Gamble. Other analysts like drugs (Pfizer, Wyeth), financials (AIG FleetBoston) and phones (Verizon, SBC). Proven funds that target dividends: T. Rowe Price Dividend Growth and Capital Income Builder...
...They have the ability to keep paying and raising their dividend and have demonstrated the willingness," says Deborah Kuenstner, head of value investing at Putnam Investments. Her picks include power companies Entergy and Florida Power, oil company ExxonMobil and consumer-products maker Procter & Gamble. Other analysts like drugs (Pfizer, Wyeth), financials (AIG FleetBoston) and phones (Verizon, SBC). Proven funds that target dividends: T. Rowe Price Dividend Growth and Capital Income Builder...
...still profit from this powerful demographic force, which will run for decades. Indeed, the stock market's steep fall over the past two years has made some traditional age-wave investments cheap again. Pharmaceutical stocks like Pfizer and Wyeth, and financial services stocks like Citigroup, despite its Enron-related woes, and Mellon all make the cut. The real zip, though, is likely to be in less obvious places, and Charles Baird, chairman and founder of the private equity firm North Castle Partners in Greenwich, Conn., believes he has tapped into something big. Baird has invested $800 million in what...
Those were different times, of course. But the idea that a single pill might turn back the clock quickly caught the popular imagination. It didn't hurt that the hormone's No. 1 manufacturer, Wyeth Pharmaceuticals, launched an aggressive marketing campaign. Thank goodness today's spots have been updated to feature the dulcet tones of singer Patti LaBelle and have abandoned patronizing messages like the one in a 1975 ad--"Almost any tranquilizer might calm her down...but at her age, estrogen may be what she really needs...
...much for the major conclusions. Now for the caveats and complications. The WHI study looked at the most popular brand of estrogen and progestin, which is called Prempro and is made by Wyeth. Technically speaking, the WHI findings do not apply to other products. Some doctors have speculated that lower-dose hormones or estrogen-progestin patches and creams might somehow avoid some of the risks associated with Prempro. That has yet to be proved. Even so-called natural hormones (those derived from plants) aren't necessarily risk free. For one thing, they haven't been as carefully tested as Prempro...