Dividend portfolios and long-term investing

• Ano de defesa: 2016
• Autor(a) principal: Riva, Federico
• Orientador(a): Sanvicente, Antonio Zoratto
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: eng
• Palavras-chave em Inglês: Dividends; Industry portfolio; Asset allocation; Long-term investing; Portfolio optimization
• Link de acesso: http://hdl.handle.net/10438/17307

The size of mutual funds throughout the world reached $33.4 trillion in terms of assets under management in 2015. Part of these funds is invested directly or on behalf of private investors whose aim is to secure their future financial wealth. I have been following a stream of literature from the 1980’s that focuses on the relation between dividends stability and returns for equities. A recent research analyzes the benefits of maximizing returns from income such as dividend-paying stocks and coupon-bearing bonds in the attempt of improving the performance of the portfolio. The theory is that focusing on stable dividend-paying stocks, the investor is able to gain exposure to healthy and prosperous firms. Ultimately, this should provide the investor with a smaller exposure to risk thanks to a constant stream of cash flows from dividends. This strategy would be beneficial to highly risk-averse investors.