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This site covers stocks that offer direct investment plans (also known as dividend reinvestment plans or DRIPs). You can use this site to open an account in virtually every DRIP plan available. You will find capsule reviews and performance analysis for virtually every company that offers direct investing, as well as risk-reducing strategies that become possible when you invest directly without fees. You will also find comprehensive information about the company plans, which are gleaned from the DRIP prospectuses.

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DRIP Portfolio: Riding out the Storm (Moneypaper 11/08)

How does one invest in today’s type of market? It’s simple: You play it safe. For this month’s portfolio, we selected a diversified portfolio of stocks in major industries with the strongest fundamentals. These companies boast histories of surviving market turmoil in the past and remaining in position to prosper in the future. While these companies, like the rest of the economy, are under pressure, they have displayed the financial and managerial capability to compete effectively and are major players in their respective industries. We picked only those with... Read More

Outlook: Crash (Moneypaper 11/08)

Recent market action can best be described as a CRASH. That sounds scary, but keep in mind that bear markets follow bull markets and both usually go to extremes. The two primary emotions in the stock market, fear and greed, both come into play and the trick is to not let either of these affect your common sense. In bull markets, stocks get too high and people get too greedy. Right now, fear is out there in a big way and will probably not subside until well after the market turns around. Investing is not a sprint. It is a marathon. We have always advocated principles that help people avoid ... Read More

Commentary: Zombies (and the Pundits Who Love Them) (Direct Investing 11/15/08)

he ongoing hypnotherapy being conducted on the American investor is meeting with seemingly unlimited success. The message began years ago in the bull market that led to the Internet bubble, and has continued to this day: All that matters is the short term, the shorter the better. Day-trading may have lost its luster, but the unabated growth of far-reaching technology that has made every news bit instantly available has created a form of mass psychology so pervasive that the investing public is expected to routinely fall in line with every dictate of the popular financial media ... Read More

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