3 ETFs and 13 Dividend Stocks to Balance Your Asset Allocation

Dividend Growth Investor submits:Colgate-Palmolive Company (CL), together with its subsidiaries, manufactures and markets consumer products worldwide. The company is a dividend champion which has increased distributions for 48 years in a row.

Trefis submits: Unilever (UL) aims to double its revenue within a decade, [1] and Colgate-Palmolive (CL) might help it get there.

By Rajiv Tarigopula:Recently, one of my Seeking Alpha colleagues posted a piece on what he considered his "core holdings" - stocks (most generally regarded as blue-chip investments) that he would buy and hold forever.

By Eli Inkrot:I have previously written about a rationale I developed for comparing a dividend growth strategy of holding individual stocks to that of an ETF.

Trefis submits: With over 170 years of “touching lives and improving life” across the globe, Procter & Gamble (NYSE:PG) continues to provide consumers with quality beauty and personal care products. Headquartered in Cincinnati, P&G draws around 41% of its sales from North America with Western Europe contributing another 21% to its total sales.

Miriam Metzinger submits: Stocks discussed on the in-depth session of Jim Cramer's Mad Money TV Program, Thursday October 28.Kimberly-Clark (KMB), Procter & Gamble (PG), Colgate Palmolive (CL)

author name submits:When you look at the earnings per share growth rate for most of the "usual suspects" among dividend growth stocks over the past decade, you will come across a collection of stocks that have largely turned in a good decade by growing earnings by 8-12% annually.Over the past ten years, Kellogg (K) has grown earnings by 8.0% annually.

Dividends4Life submits: The Pocket Change Portfolio (PCP) was first introduced on September 13, 2008 as a real money dividend income portfolio funded by the “pocket change” earned from my various online endeavors. Each month I report on the portfolio’s progress and update its holdings. Dividends Received Total dividends received during the month were $182.64, consisting of: