In my investing quest I've done varying amounts of research into different investing criteria. The vast majority of stock brokers and advisers seem to push the next big growth stock. Being a sceptic this is naturally because they want you to experience fluctuations in the market. With fluctuations you trade whether you are in profit or cutting losses. With trading you incur costs - to the brokers benefit, they love you incurring costs, the more trades you make the more profit they make.
With a buy and hold outlook which is the view I take when looking at company dividend policy and dividend growth stocks I incur one trading fee when I buy the stock and a 1% (although different brokers have different fee structures) dividend reinvestment fee. So whilst, for the main part, I don't follow the method the brokers and advisers would prefer, it is a far cheaper investing method when it comes to trading fees and charges. It can't be too far wrong either as Warren Buffet agrees with me, his favourite investing period isn't short term or medium term, it's forever.
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