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Dividend Aristocrats in Action: Drawdowns and Rebounds
Dividend Aristocrats in Action: Drawdowns and Rebounds
What’s a valuable way to assess the performance of an investment strategy? By looking not only at how it performs when the market is up, but how it reacts to inevitable downturns. With that in mind, we looked at the market’s worst drawdowns since the S&P 500® Dividend Aristocrats® Index’s inception in 2005. Then we looked at subsequent performance when the market recovered.