Last year, the one popular investment strategy that paid off – generating returns far higher than those offered by any market index as well as the majority of U.S. equity mutual funds – was snapping up the so-called Dogs of the Dow. Collectively, the 10 Dow components with the highest dividend yields on January 1, 2011 ended up delivering a gain of 12.2 percent – or 17.2 percent once dividends were added to the mix – leaving most other investment strategies in the dust.
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