Geraldine Weiss, the Grande Dame of dividends has passed away last week. If you never heard of her, she retired 20 years ago. Her newsletter and website are still running... "Investment Quality Trends (1966–2002)[edit] In 1962, Weiss began investing and attempted to find work as a stockbroker or an analyst. However, companies dismissed her request as they did not believe a female could be successful in this field. In 1966, at the age of 40, Weiss collaborated with Fred Whitmore and founded Investment Quality Trends, a newsletter. The establishment of Investment Quality Trends marked Weiss as the first woman to start an investment advisory service.[7] Confident that she could make Investment Quality Trends successful, Weiss bought out Whitmore and managed the firm by herself. To avoid the perception held by investors that a woman could not invest successfully, Weiss signed her newsletter "G. Weiss" instead of "Geraldine Weiss" to mask her gender. The newsletter garnered significant success and created a loyal readership that generated profits off of her advice.[5] In 1977, Weiss appeared on the popular talk show Wall Street Week with Louis Rukeyser and revealed that she was a woman.[8] Although this came as a surprise to the readership at Investment Quality Trends, the subscribers "were making so much money that they really didn't care".[9] Weiss garnered significant popularity throughout the years, earning herself the nickname "The Grande Dame of Dividends". The work done by Weiss has been published in illustrious finance publications including the Los Angeles Times, Fortune, Barron's, and The Wall Street Journal.[10] Retirement at investment quality trends (2003–2022)[edit] After 36 years of conducting analysis and writing for Investment Quality Trends, Weiss handed over editorial duties to Kelley Wright. However, Weiss remained involved with the overall business strategy."
Excellent story. I know for a fact women can develop into exceptional traders. They tend to be immune to making the same mistakes over and over like we men folk. I believe their intuitive and creative insight gives them an edge. https://iqtrends.com/
She wrote a book around 1988 entitled Dividends Don't Lie. Yield might be a a reasonable gauge of "valuation" but dividends haven't competed with bond yields since 1948, there's the issue of double taxation, and personally, dividends are nuisance in terms of Schedule B. Nevertheless, Rest In Peace, Geraldine.
theres a lot of evidence that dividend paying stocks outperform the market. It was only the last 10 years when tech dominated that this didn’t hold.