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JOURNAL OF APPLIED BUSINESS AND ECONOMICS

An Investment Strategy for Financial Independence for the Unluckiest Person in the World

Author(s): Carlos Spaht, Harvey Rubin

Citation: Carlos Spaht, Harvey Rubin, (2013) "An Investment Strategy for Financial Independence for the Unluckiest Person in the World," Journal of Applied Business and Economics, Vol. 15, Iss. 1, pp. 64-70

Article Type: Research paper

Publisher: North American Business Press

Abstract:

This paper discusses how an investor can achieve financial independence even if the investor is what we

refer to as the unluckiest person in the world. Using the S&P 500 Dividend Aristocrats Index, this

investor makes a onetime selection of stocks for a select period of time. The investor then continues, on a

quarterly basis for the entire select period of time, by investing a fixed dollar amount and reinvesting

dividends in each of the stocks. But our investor has a problem in timing the market – all of the

investments are made at the stocks’ high point of the year.