Stock dividends

Though sometimes overlooked, dividends can provide passive income or spark compounding growth. Here are the stocks with the biggest payouts.

The Swiss bank's cancelled $1.4 billion acquisition of the robo-advisor means extra money for shareholders.

Investors tend to "chase yield" in tough economic times, but there's a price to that.

The bank says an announcement on how far the current 51-cent payout would drop is expected in mid-July.

There are appealing methods to shift investments “upstream” to aging parents or “downstream” to grown children.

“If done correctly, dividend-yielding stocks are the gifts that keep on giving,” an expert says.

For clients’ portfolios that need international diversity, these funds focus on the region.

Each of these funds has its own way of adding high-octane assets into clients' portfolios.

Still, some products with higher yields also have higher Sharpe ratios. Could that indicate better risk-adjusted performance?

Eleven of the 14 dividend-focused ETFs in existence 10 years ago beat a plain vanilla index fund.