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Filtered Equity Income Stock Prospects

Jun 17, 2009 - 5:39 AM EDT

Richard Shaw (QVM Group) submits:

We are increasingly asked about low risk individual stocks that may be suitable for an equity income allocation within a portfolio. This is a general response to that question.

Before offering a prospect list in which you might find attractive ideas, we want to make it clear that diversification of sectors and individual securities is important; and that individual stocks involve more work to create and maintain in a portfolio than holding funds. Generally, individual stock portfolios have higher risk due to concentration among a limited number of issues. That higher risk could enable out-performance, but could also result lower performance than a diversified fund or index.

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Source: Seeking Alpha (Jun 17, 2009 - 5:39 AM EDT)