XYLD - My 9% Income Portfolio - Harmony In Investment

2024-03-18 23:34:32 ET

Summary

• Surrounded by the smoothness of the Tuscan landscape, I have always thought that the pursuit of harmony in human activities is the first step toward happiness.
• I also chase a balance in investments, seeking to create a portfolio whose securities provide a steady cash flow over time and grow the nominal capital invested.
• For this to happen, I am increasingly convinced that the track record of each security, at least over the past 5 to 10 years, is of paramount importance.
• In this article, I outline the criterion by which I selected the securities that became part of my current portfolio beginning in the spring of 2020.

Chianti and the Harmony of Landscape

Along the Via Chiantigiana, which connects Florence to Siena, the landscape and architectural universe of the Florentine countryside unfolds, marked by the grim legacies of a never-forgotten Middle Ages and ripe fruits of a Renaissance still fertile with cultural stimuli. Indeed, it is precisely in Chianti that the humanistic, all-Florentine concept of nature shaped to the measure of man takes substance. The stately villa then becomes a place of contemplation that opens outward, modifying the relationship with the surrounding landscape, which constitutes a new and fundamental center of gravity....

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