I was reading a medical newspaper and the President of a health care provider talked about needing to focus on transitions – the handoff between one level of care and another and to ensure care remains high. It is easier to say to to do, than to actually do it. The writer’s experience is it all depends on if the health care provider likes the patient, if they do better transitions result.
In the dividend world, the focus is besides paying dividends, is the company raising them? Recent reports state in general dividend payout ratios are rising, which is good. Given the focus on if the amount rises or stays the same, the transition is easy if the opposite happens – dividends go down. If dividiends go down the transition to companies that do pay should automatically happen. While the selection of the appropriate company(ies) remains difficult, the transition to keeping or moving your investment is easy to do.

There is always more questions than answers, till the next time – to raising questions