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JOURNAL OF APPLIED BUSINESS AND ECONOMICS

Comparison of Three Investment Strategies

for Financial Independence

Author(s): Carlos Spaht, Harvey Rubin

Citation: Carlos Spaht, Harvey Rubin, (2014) "Comparison of Three Investment Strategies for Financial Independence," Journal of Applied Business and Economics, Vol. 16, Iss. 6, pp. 44-55

Article Type: Research paper

Publisher: North American Business Press

Abstract:

This paper discusses how investors can achieve financial independence regardless of timing in the

market. To do this, we study three investors referred to as the luckiest, average, and unluckiest investors

in the market. Using the S&P Dividend Aristocrats Index, each selects the same stocks and then

continues, each quarter for fifteen years, to invest the same amount and reinvest the dividends in each

stock. But their timing is different; the lucky investor invests at the low point of the market whereas the

average and unlucky investors invest at the average and high points. Amazingly, each investor achieves

financial independence.