Introduction
One of the first decisions your broker probably asked you when setting up an account is what do you want to do with the dividends you receive. Most stocks (don't know about funds) also allow you to enroll in their automatic reinvestment programs, called DRIPs. DRIP refers to “Dividend ReInvestment Plan,” a means of reinvesting your dividends/distributions back into the issuing security. Most accounts allow you to decide if you want to DRIP or not at either the account or individual security level. Most times the investor incurs no fees to DRIP, thus increasing