Weekend Reading Links – June 16, 2013 + MORE

Welcome to the 74th edition of Carnival of Retirement. The articles below show a variety of opinions from various bloggers on the topic of retirement. As many of you are aware, at this site we focus on dividend growth investing as a means to an end, the end being achieving financial independence in retirement…

Sectors boasting hefty cash payouts performed strongly in the first quarter, as investors rushed into assets offering steady cash flow. Federal Reserve stimulus had kept interest rates — and bond yields — low, leaving investors hungry for income. The quarter’s three top sectors were health care, consumer staples, and utilities…

For your weekend reading pleasure, the articles listed below contain some of the best dividend and value investing insights found on the web. They were written by various members of the Dividend Investing and Value Network over the past week:

Articles From DIV-Net Members
Dividends4Life presented 8 Higher-Yielding Financial Services Stocks With Rising Dividends
Dividend Growth Investor presented Are performance comparisons to S&P 500 necessary for dividend growth investors?
The Dividend Guy presented 6 Dividend Stocks to Buy in Order to Profit from the Stock Squeeze
Disciplined Approach to Investing presented Where Does A Top Bond Manager Invest His Personal Funds?
Barel Karsan presented Analyzing And Investing In Community Banks
Dividend Growth Stocks Investing presented Cracker Barrel Dividend Stock Analysis
Passive Income Pursuit presented Wal-Mart (WMT) Dividend Stock Analysis
Simply Investing presented Do You Practice Safe Investing?
Financially Integrated presented Why I’m not selling my dividend stocks
There are some really good articles here, please take time and read a few of them…