Two decades ago, I developed the Retirement Compounders (RCs) as a portfolio to hold through thick and thin. Concentration is on dividends and on compound interest. Expectations are justifiably modest. The Prudent Man Rule overrides all. … [Read more...]
Retirement Compounders: Helping Investors Like You Achieve Investment Success
It has now been 19 years since we started Young Research’s Retirement Compounders Program. Our overriding goal in developing the RCs was to help investors like you achieve investment success with comfort and confidence. Compounding is the key to long-term investment success. And to reap the profound rewards of compounding, you need time—the more time, the better. Consider the hypothetical example of an investor who earns 8% on a $100,000 investment. After ten years of compounding at 8%, $100,000 becomes $216,000. After 20 years, $100,000 becomes $466,000. That’s more than four times the … [Read more...]
Dividend Stocks for the Long-Run
When we developed Young Research’s Retirement Compounders (RCs), our aim was to find a compelling competitive advantage to make the RCs a big winner, especially during bad times. Our overriding goal was to help investors like you achieve investment success with comfort and confidence. Our strategy was to accept underperformance during speculative market runs (like we’ve seen in recent years), with the expected tradeoff of better performance during down markets. The idea was never to beat the market over time or on a consistent basis. Rather, we fully expected the low risk RCs (both price … [Read more...]
Young Research’s Retirement Compounders
Young Research’s Retirement Compounders is comprised of dividend paying common stocks selected from the over 40,000 global publicly traded companies. The Retirement Compounders Program favors high dividend payers, those with a history of dividend payments, and companies with a long record of consecutive dividend increases. Some of the companies included in Young Research's Retirement Compounders program have paid a dividend every year for over a century. Others can boast a more than five decade record of annual dividend increases. The combination of high dividend payments today and dividend … [Read more...]