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a basket of dividend growth blue chips will maybe not outperform the market in the long run, but it will perform just fine if you reinvest the dividends and enjoy dividend growth along the years.

Then why not just invest in a basket of index ETFs, take the market return, and limit a lot of risk by not running such a concentrated portfolio? I don't understand why you would essentially add risk to take lower long term returns.

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Posted by ThaBigFella

baton rouge

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Posted on 3/21/13 at 7:52 am to Chris Farley

Bc a basket of blue chip stock etfs could include dogs like Exxon which was unreal years ago but has done nothing in the last 5 years while Philip Morris tripled as McDonald's roared....picking stocks on your personal info is a lot better than an etf...does every company possess McDonald's china growth potential? Same with Philip Morris

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Posted by ThaBigFella

baton rouge

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Posted on 3/21/13 at 7:55 am to Chris Farley

And personally the reason I believe in Philip Morris for over 50% of my portfolio isn't only dividend growth plus future performance in emerging markets along with being the best performing stock of all time....it's the fact every dollar they take is in foreign currency and a bad dollar is great for them...one quarter in the past few years sales were stagnant and profit was up 19% on a weak dollar...I believe the dollar will fall into oblivion and PM would be the best blue chip to own for this

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