The Dividend Investing Blog

There have been a number of great posts around the dividend blogging nation recently about the S&P High Yield Dividend Aristocrats Index.  The Index consists of companies from the S&P Composite 1500 that have raised dividends for 25 consecutive years or longer.  There is an exchange traded fund, SPDR S&P Dividend (SDY), that tracks this index.  However, SDY has a 0.35% expense ratio and a 40% turnover.  I want to try to make my own index fund from the Dividend Aristocrats.  I know what you are thinking, “How are you going to do that?”.  Well, just sit right back and you will hear a tale.

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I spent a number of years using dividend reinvestment programs (DRIPs).  These plans allow you to buy shares of a company directly without using a brokerage.  However, as the years wore on more and more plans started charging fees and it became more and more of a hassle to enter all the data into Quicken.

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