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Dividend Reinvestment Plans - a good deal

Periodically, a beginning investor reader will ask how to decide on which stocks to purchase. The easy answer is that beginning investors have no business investing in individual stocks. Beginning investors should be investing in mutual funds containing diverse offerings that decrease risk. Or, beginning investors should invest in exchange traded funds, ETFs, which are collections of stocks around a central investment goal or risk factor, but unlike mutual funds, ETFs trade on stock exchanges and are fully liquid.

All that being said, investors who want to purchase individual stocks in their own name, would do well to investigate publicly traded companies that offer dividend reinvestment plans, or DRIPs.

DRIPS are an extension of employee stock plans that larger companies have long offered their employees, but are now also open to the investing public.

HOW TO FIND A DRIP PLAN:

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