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Dividends can be a way for investors to effectively safeguard returns during volatile times. Joseph Keating, CIO of RBC Bank Private Asset Management, shared some of his best dividend picks for investors.
“We’re focused on the highest quality names,” Keating told CNBC.
He recommended Colgate-Palmolive [CL
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“If you want to get higher, you can go into the pipelines—we like the energy infrastructure in the United States—names like Enterprise Product Partners [EPD
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Keating also likes the telecom giants AT&T [T
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“Over the health care arena we’re underweighted, but we do like Johnson & Johnson [JNJ
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],” he said. “In technology, the yields are not that high in companies like Intel [INTC
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]—[but they are] very safe, secure dividends.”
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Want higher dividend yields? “They come with some risk, but that doesn’t mean one should never do it,” said John Dorfman, portfolio manager of Dorfman Value Fund. Read his stock recommendations.
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Disclosures:
No immediate information was available for Keating or his firm.
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