Value Investing News

For the past decade or so, Donald Yacktman of the Yacktman Fund (YACKX) have outperformed the indexes by investing in large well run companies that they could purchase at a discount. For the most part, they have done so with large companies and several smaller companies when the risk/reward is right.

We have all heard it… Stodgy, for old people, yawn, boring! These have all been used to describe dividend growth investing. As a dividend growth investor, I sometimes think our strategy is the most misunderstood. It seems everyone understands a traders mentality and a high-yield mentality.

You can get a good look at Castle Point's portfolio here:
http://www.rocketfinancial.com/Holdings.aspx?fID=10102

He's obviously very focused on financial services companies. You can also look back over time and see what he held in the past!

The most important dividend events of the past week included news that have regulators warned financial companies to restrict dividend increases and stock buybacks for the near future. According to Reuters, executives from Goldman Sachs (GS) and JP Morgan Chase (JPM) have had talks with regulators about returning more cash to shareholders.