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Article: S&P Launches High Yield Dividend Aristocrats Index.
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- November 9, 2005
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NEW YORK, Nov. 9 /PRNewswire/ -- Providing investors with an important, relevant benchmark by which to measure dividend investing in the U.S., Standard & Poor's launched today the S&P High Yield Dividend Aristocrat Index. The S&P High Yield Dividend Aristocrat Index is designed to measure the performance of the 50 highest dividend yielding stocks in the S&P Composite 1500 which have followed a dividend policy of consistent annual increases for at least 25 consecutive years.
"Since 1926, dividends have contributed nearly a third of the market's total equity returns," says David Blitzer, Managing Director and Chairman of the Index Committee at Standard & Poor's. ...