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Loading up on stocks with dividends is risky in an aging bull market

ONE INVESTMENT STRATEGY THAT HAS GROWN increasingly popular, particularly among people who are either retired or close to retiring, needs to be put out to pasture, investment strategists say.

And that’s the dividend switch.

For much of the past decade, investors have operated against the backdrop of two big trends: historically low interest rates, which have frustrated retirees living off the income

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