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The financial crisis of 2007-2009 led to dividend cuts in many financial companies. Investors who were heavily concentrated in the financial sector suffered in the process. Other dividend investors who maintained a balanced income portfolio however saw their dividend income not only stabilize but also increase, as most prominent non-financial dividend stocks continued raising or maintaining distributions. For those investors who kept receiving dividend checks it seemed as if the financial crisis is something that did not affect them.

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