Weekend Reading – April 19, 2013 + MORE

In the latest look at stocks ordered by largest market capitalization, Russell 3000 component Inc (NASD: SPLK) was identified as having a larger market cap than the smaller end of the S&P 500, for example Bemis Co Inc (NYSE: BMS), according to The Online Investor. Click here to find out the top S&P 500 components ordered by average analyst rating »

The conversation about a “dividend bubble” began in earnest at the beginning of last year. As my colleague Morgan Housel said in February 2012, “there’s an argument to make that, just as investors ran blindly into subprime bonds five years ago in search of yield, they’re running blindly, carelessly into dividend stocks today…

I tend to post anywhere between three to four articles to my site every week. I usually try to write at least one or two articles that contain timeless information concerning dividend investing. This could include information about my strategy, or other pieces of information, which could be useful to dividend investors…

Visit StreetInsider.com at http://www.streetinsider.com/Dividends/Park+National+Corp.+%28PRK%29+Declares+%240.94+Quarterly+Dividend%3B+5.6%25+Yield/8265758.html for the full story.

I’m greatly looking forward to this weekend. As I write this it’s Friday evening and I’m worn out. Unfortunately, I also have to put in about 5 hours tomorrow morning at work. I’ve already logged 50 hours, so it’s been a long week. And people actually wonder why I’m pursuing financial independence/early retirement?? Anyway, once I’m done with work at about 1 p…

I haven’t expressly written before about the differences between dividend growth investing and index investing, and why I prefer the former over the latter. But, always better late rather than never and so I find myself compelled to put my thoughts to paper.

Before I delve too deep into this, it should be noted that I find index investing to be a fantastic strategy for a great many people out there, and probably the vast majority of investors would do better to invest in a small group of high quality, low expense index funds and be done with it…