A MEGATREND FOR UNCERTAIN TIMES

Most Dividend Payers Will Outperform.

We’ve all seen the statistics that extoll the virtues of the dividend payers – for instance, that from 1980 to 2005, Standard & Poor’s 500 Index dividend payers outperformed their non-dividend-paying counterparts by more than 2.6 percentage points a year (an outperformance that, over a long period, translates into major additional gains in a portfolio).

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Servus to share millions

Servus Credit Union plans to share a little Christmas cheer with its members next month — nearly $46 million worth.

The member-owned financial institution announced on Thursday that it will distribute $45.8 million under its profit share program this year. The money is expected to be deposited into members’ accounts the first week of December, said Ian Glassford, Servus’s chief financial officer.

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