SDIV - SDIV: Borrowing Money To Pay Dividends Is A Recipe For Disaster

There is no denying that investors today love dividends. As someone who generally focuses on ETFs, I have found that those with high dividend yields have far more followers on Seeking Alpha and tend to achieve higher assets under management. This is likely because many investors today are at or near retirement and are searching for adequate income distribution in an environment of extremely low global yields.

While falling interest rates are making it increasingly difficult to find safe yielding investments, they have also propped up the principal value of dividend-paying stocks, particularly in Utilities,